Seth Shostak on Colbert Nation Part I

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Posted by: southseeker on May 23, 2009

Dr. Shostak talks about his latest book: "Confessions of an Alien Hunter" and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

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My guest tonight
Is here to talk about hunting for aliens in outer space
I say we keep them out of the space wall
please welcome Seth Shostak!
Seth Shostak, thanks for coming on
look what we've got here, the name of your book
is "Confessions of an Alien Hunter"
..."a scientist's search for extraterrestrial life"
you're an alien hunter so tell me how many
aliens heads do you have on the wall of your tent? anything?
it's pretty bare I have to say
not yet, not yet, but within two thousand years that answer might change
or within two thousand years you wouldn't be there, you never know
in which case ...
it's very hopefull to say that eventually I would hunt that snipe
they may not exist
in which case your life is meaningless
no offense, I'm just laying it out there man
I'm glad
you could just be... you know... pissing in the wind here
could be, Stephen, but look at this way, there are trillion planets on our galaxy
that's a vast number
says you
it's in your interest to think that
yeah, maybe it is but the astronomers...
I have a lot of astronomers who are backing me up on that
now, most of them are going to be pretty worthless...Neptune, Mercury...pretty worthless
but in a trillion planets some of them are going to be ok
some are going to be something like the Earth
unless this is a miracle, you think this is a miracle?
I do think this is a miracle
created by God in six days
yes my friend
that what I call a miracle, ok?
that's one of the things that bugs me about this is why
why, you know is science just continues to make mankind insignificant
I mean, we used to be...we were just like Jerusalem was the center of the world
on old maps and the Earth was the center of the Universe, then the Sun was the center of the Universe

Seth Shostak on Colbert Nation Part I

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