Doug Vakoch

In fact, I'm a strong advocate of using some of these telescopes that have multiple dishes and to turn those into an orchestra of a sort.

The biggest impact that we can make in terms of what we're going to be for another civilization is to show up and start.

I mean, until now, we haven't shown up.

I mean, if we have a reputation in the galaxy, we're lurkers.

That's funny.

They're there, but they're sure not saying anything.

I think some of the big discoveries sometimes require a capacity to say what if and then a willingness to follow through on it.