Nathalie Cabrol

I mean, it's almost every single day I had to correct something in the chapters I was writing.

So it's getting better right now.

It's getting better.

But remember that the SETI Institute is not only about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

This is the historical root of the Institute.

But it's about 10% of what we do.

In fact, we are searching for life in the universe from the origins of life to extraterrestrial intelligence.

So 90% of everything else is exoplanet.

For instance, we have a good chunk of the Kepler team that is actually with the SETI Institute, and they are working with TESS right now.

Some already have some time on the GEMS web.

We have astrobiologists, we have astronomers.

Yeah, go to analog places to try and understand the type of life that survive in planetary type environments.

I mean, people are always surprised when I tell them, you know, whatever flies in the solar system has flown or will be flying,

we're involved.

So this is not something that pops in everybody's mind when they are thinking about the SETI Institute, because we started off as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the Institute has really bloomed into the search for life along the Drake equation, all the terms of the Drake equation.

Think about Mars involved in landing site selection, in instruments that are actually on board.

Some of the missions in science teams, for instance, Cassini, New Horizons, also missions that will be coming.

The search for life, we do this all across the Drake equation.

So SETI is part of it, and it's our route, and it's expanding a little bit right now.

We hope it will continue to expand, so this is a good time for the institute.