{"id":7596,"date":"2014-05-01T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2014-05-02T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T04:40:33","slug":"seth-shostak-interview-video-discussion-of-exoplanet-kepler-186f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7596","title":{"rendered":"Seth Shostak interview + Video discussion of exoplanet Kepler 186f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/users\/sshostak\" target=\"_d\">Seth Shostak<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/\" target=\"_d\">SETI Institute<\/a>\u00a0is interviewed:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/futuredude.com\/futuredude-visits-seth-shostak-at-the-seti-institute-part-2\/?utm_content=bufferd26ee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_d\">FutureDude Visits Seth Shostak at the SETI Institute, Part 2\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0FutureDude\u2122<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>But, how does it affect the world if we did find something? I think that depends. I mean, if you can actually find a message in that signal, and you can understand it, maybe you\u2019re in touch with an intelligence beyond ours. So, then perhaps you could learn some really important stuff, man! Maybe we could get to those futures we never seem to get to. But, I don\u2019t know if that would happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What I do think would happen for sure is that it would change the way we look at things\u2014in the same way Copernicus changed the way people looked at things. Copernicus, 400 years ago says, \u201cYou know, Earth\u2019s not the center of the cosmos.\u201d He said the Sun was and he wasn\u2019t right about that. But at least he moved the center away from the Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>But people still went to work, still got married, or worried about their incomes, doing their taxes, or whatever. But on the other hand, things really were changed. Philosophically they were different. I think if we discovered a signal, it would have a big impact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">===<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Here is a SETI Institute video of a panel discussion led by Jill Tartar with\u00a0Elisa Quintana, Tom Barclay, and Jason Rowe, who were among the authors of the paper on the discovery of the \u00a0first earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star. (Quintana is the lead author.) See <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7397\" target=\"_blank\">post here<\/a>\u00a0and also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/news\/paper-announcing-kepler186f-available-download\" target=\"_d\">Paper Announcing Kepler186f Available for Download\u00a00\u00a0SETI Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UogSOfkoib4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Shostak\u00a0of the SETI Institute\u00a0is interviewed:\u00a0FutureDude Visits Seth Shostak at the SETI Institute, Part 2\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0FutureDude\u2122. But, how does it affect the world if we did find something? I think that depends. I mean, if you can actually find a message in that signal, and you can understand it, maybe you\u2019re in touch with an intelligence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seth Shostak interview + Video discussion of exoplanet Kepler 186f<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Yw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11059,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11059","url_meta":{"origin":7596,"position":0},"title":"Video: SETI Institute Hangout discussion of Kepler 452b","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Seth Shostak talks with\u00a0SETI Institute scientists Douglas Caldwell, Jeffrey Coughlin, Joseph Twicken about the latest Kepler findings: https:\/\/youtu.be\/prBlDgBm6w4","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Exoplanets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Exoplanets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=46"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/prBlDgBm6w4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12590,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12590","url_meta":{"origin":7596,"position":1},"title":"Videos: SETI Institute crowd-funding + Panel: &#8220;When will we find life beyond earth?&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The SETI Institute has a fund-raising campaign underway this month\u00a0with the\u00a0goal of\u00a0reaching $50k:\u00a0\u00a0SETI.org\/give. 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