While I was at the January 2008 meeting of the AAS, I stopped by the SETI booth and chatted with Dr. Jill Tarter. SETI received a very healthy dose of money from Paul Allen to build 350 radio dishes so they can monitor the sky for alien signals. She talks a bit about the array in the interview:
As I note in the video notes, I wanted to edit out her slip of the tongue about Mike Griffin, but I couldn’t because there was no place to splice the footage. Oh well, it’ll be here for all eternity, I suppose.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I was at the ATA booth on Friday talking to Jack Welch and got to catch up with him, but now I’m bummed that I didn’t get to chat with Jill!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Interesting note about the handout in the video: that image of the Andromeda Galaxy was produced with ONE pointing of the ATA!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Isn’t Jill Tarter supposed to be who Ellie Arroway from Contact was based on?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Oops, never mind maybe I should watch the clip before posting. Sorry
February 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Off-topic: Don’t forget about Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse! (Thursday morning for a lot o’ them funny-talkin’ foreigners on the other side of the Atlantic.)
February 18th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I attended her lecture recently in Sacramento. The Q&A session that followed was interesting as she answered audience questions with clarity and imagination.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Starr/Greg, write better and then it won’t matter what Phil writes people will still read your stuff.