Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life
2012 July 23
As a child, astronomer Jill Tarter would walk along the beaches of western Florida with her father and look up at the stars.
“I assumed, at that time, that along some beach on some planet, there would be a small creature walking with its dad and they would see our sun in their sky, and they might wonder whether anyone was there,” she tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies. “But I never thought about it professionally until graduate school.”
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