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43: Making Contact with author Sarah Scoles
Casual Space
English - October 03, 2019 18:26 - 41 minutes - 31.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Technology mund astronomy beth nasa science space Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The movie Contact was inspired by scientist, Jill Tarter! Sarah and Beth discuss:
What it was like to meet (and then write about) her childhood mentor, Jill Tarter How Sarah met Jill and asked to write the story of Jill’s life- all from a bus?!? The impression left on you growing up with rocket launches in your backyard And… what the future of SETI might bring us – answers to our deepest questions- are we alone in the universe?
About Sarah Scoles: http://www.sarahscoles.com/
“I'm a Denver-based freelance science writer, a contributing writer at WIRED Science, a contributing editor at Popular Science, and the author of the book Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. A writing portfolio lives here. In previous lives, I was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education person at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. When I'm not making sentences or recording our conversations, I enjoy reading short story collections, running weirdly long distances in the wilderness, teaching my dog English, and trying to become a better navigator.”
Learn more about SETI: https://seti.org/
Watch Jill Tarter’s TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_tarter_s_call_to_join_the_seti_search