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We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.
~ Seth Shostak
Better
Billions
Columbus
Contemporary
Could
Except
Familiar
Happening
Imagine
Manhattan
Moon
Now
People
Place
Say
Than
Will
Years
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We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.
~ Seth Shostak
Another
Biology
Evidence
Fluke
Found
Judge
Life
Life Is A
Objective
Phenomenon
Way
Whether
World
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We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it's going to happen.
~ Seth Shostak
Beneath
Comfortable
Components
Could
Creativity
Entirely
Going
Happen
Might
Money
Our
Outsourcing
Processes
Says
Smart
Thought
Welcome
You
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We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.
~ Seth Shostak
About
Also
Animal
Big
Consequences
Evolutionary
Few
Interested
Make
Mostly
Notice
Planet
Practical
Programs
See
Teeth
Things
Value
Very
Watching
You
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We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices.
~ Seth Shostak
Any
Bodies
Carbon
Few
Helium
Herbs
Hydrogen
Include
Ingredients
Just
Like
Most
Other
Our
Oxygen
Spices
Star
Stuff
Which
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We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.
~ Seth Shostak
Big
Biology
Both
Bright
Dominate
Forget
Guys
Kind
Milky Way
Night
Other
Percent
Rare
Short-Lived
Sky
Stars
Thing
Those
Way
You
Your
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'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?
~ Seth Shostak
Adult
After
Anyone
Around
Ask
Bang
Been
Before
Big
Big Bang
Billion
Both
Cosmos
Existence
Kids
Legitimate
Love
Only
Pose
Question
Roughly
Seems
Sympathetic
Universe
Up
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Years
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What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.
~ Seth Shostak
About
Anchor
Drilling
Earth
Elevator
End
Feet
Heavy
Long
Lower
Miles
Oil
Platform
Ribbon
Simply
Space
Stretching
Surface
Thin
Think
Thousand
Thousand Miles
Top
Upwards
Wide
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When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.
~ Seth Shostak
Amplifier
Basement
Doing
Electronics
Expired
Graduated
High
High School
Interest
Just
Lack
Lot
Magazine
Nearly
Passion
People
Personal
Popular
Radio
Same
School
Some
Up
Were
Young
Young People
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When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.
~ Seth Shostak
After
Alien
Bad
Coming
Earth
Edison
Films
Invented
Involved
Just
Kid
Moving
Pictures
Purposes
Were
Which
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When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.
~ Seth Shostak
Also
Body
Brains
Course
Dolphins
Few
Highly
Humans
Larger
Largest
Matters
Our
Proportion
Set
Size
Sophisticated
Stanford
Tenure
Than
Whales
Win
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When was the last time you bought an American-made radio or television? If you're Gen X or younger, the answer is 'never.' Does the label on that shirt or skirt you're wearing say 'Made in the U.S.A.'? If so, you probably got it at Goodwill, or maybe at a Smithsonian garage sale.
~ Seth Shostak
Answer
Bought
Does
Garage
Gen
Goodwill
Got
Label
Last
Last Time
Made
Maybe
Never
Radio
Sale
Say
Shirt
Skirt
Television
Time
Wearing
You
Younger
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While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.
~ Seth Shostak
Could
Daunting
Difference
Distance
Galaxy
Human
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Indefinitely
Lifetimes
Little
Long
Machines
Make
Might
More
Next
Space
Space Travel
Star
Take
Them
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Travel
While
Years
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While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
~ Seth Shostak
Agree
Always
Better
Better Ways
Both
Description
E.T.
Inevitably
Job
Job Description
Looking
Money
Motivation
My Own
Others
Own
Possible
Self-Evident
Some
Spend
Thought
Victim
Ways
While
Will
Worthy
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While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.
~ Seth Shostak
Any
Ask
Astronomy
Clearly
Confess
Data
Disappointing
Insights
Matters
May
Meaning
Meaning Of
People
Provide
Sin
Souls
Useful
While
Who
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You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.
~ Seth Shostak
About
Alien
Day
Earth
Email
Every
Every Day
Extraterrestrial
Local
Massive
May
Museum
Plans
Receive
Reluctance
Reports
Science
Scientists
See
Seriously
Several
Stories
Subject
Take
UFO
Whole
You
Your
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