Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Seth chats with Discovery Channel


Seth was recently interviewed by Dave Mosher for Discovery Channel's website. An afternoon of instant messaging touched on the subjects of life on mars, what aliens might look like, and why SETI is important. Here's an excerpt:

Dave on Earth (1:15 PM): Is there a chance SETI and everyone else is looking for the wrong thing?

SethHeartsAliens (1:15 PM): Of course there's a chance that we're doing the wrong thing, but if you don't know, then I think you should do SOMETHING. We'll never find the aliens by just throwing up our hands and saying "we don't know how to look!" Better to explore and not find them, than to not explore and be guaranteed not to find them!

You can read the entire interview on Discovery's website.

2 comments:

Lourdes / Hypatia said...

If you want to read in Spanish the translation of the chat between Seth Shostak and Discovery Channel, go to this link

http://www.astroseti.org/noticia_3587_astronomo_seti_comenta_parte.htm

Anonymous said...

Nice interview but they ask the same questions over and over again.