The Next Truth (from Paranormal Underground Radio): Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and the Director of the Institute’s Center for SETI Research
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What sparked Maria Anna’s curiosity about SETI and led to this interview?
According to some history books. Our species was once one of the dumest kind roaming deze globe. But if we really were in the possession of a so called daily dementia, Then how is it that we since the beginning of time? We're looking up to the skies, seeking answers to the questions. What is out there? А ви трулі Алоні не універс? After millions and millions of years, the universe and some of its content is still one of the greatest unexplained wonders in human history. It seems that we just cannot wrap our minds around this black thing we are swirling in. So What is it that is out there and Was there something or someone providing the first specimens of our species with the needed information for us to think in a creative manner that over time evolved in an advanced technological era?
I am your host Maria Anna van Driel, and you are listening to the next truth where science and myth meet. A weekly podcast in which scientists and citizenscientists speak about the incredible research, awe-inspiring theories and mind-dazzling paradoxes for you to explore the connections between accepted and noetic science. This week I am speaking with SETI's senior astronomer Dr. Seth Sostock about which secret still lies beyond the limits of our understanding regarding our cosmic freezer.
Set well welcome to this uh f uh podcast of uh The Next Truth. And I'm I'm very happy to uh have you here to speak with you after all this time. I can see you finally. Um yeah. Йор Сеті сінір астрономар, еврібаді носю. Um but How did you get with Seti?
Well, th the SETI Enterprise, the idea of trying to find the extraterrestrials by uh you know, using big antennas and trying to find radio signals. That goes back to nineteen sixty. So that's sixty years old now. That's it, that idea, and people are still doing it basically. Uh But I developed an interest in Sety You know, when I was a student I was just sort of interested, I read about it. But I was also doing radio astronomy for my thesis work, I did radio astronomy. And I also worked in the Netherlands for thirteen years. Yeah, I read that. Yeah, doing radio astronomy there. They have a you know a b several radio telescopes. So I even did uh an experiment in the Netherlands. looking at the center of our galaxy for signals, you know, see if there were any super civilizations down there.
The Dutch are not very big on SETI, they They uh claim they are too sober a people for that, but uh it was at least one experiment. But then I moved to California for completely other reasons and I wasn't here terribly long, about a year, before people at the SETI Institute called me up and offered me a job.
And so you took it. And since ever since you were there
That's that's correct. I took it at first I didn't want to take it as a full-time job. Because I had had the experience of losing a full time job and then you have nothing. So I thought it was better to have lots of part time jobs, which I did for a while. Now you now
you have to I have to s explain which part time jobs.
was just asking myself when I lost this job, it was asking myself What is it that I could do? that other people would pay for. Mm and there weren't too many things other than, you know, delivering groceries. Uh that's probably today a better job than it was then. But uh you know, writing Teaching Speaking. photography, these are all things that uh I could do and I by the way still do. Uh you know, I I still sell my photos, I still give talks uh that people pay for, I still write for uh magazines and newspapers. So I still do that. But it was very interesting. I recommend it to everybody. Uh this is harder in Europe by the way, but I recommend it to everybody to totally lose your income. That's it.
Okay. I'm no, thank you.
You see see that that that's that's something wrong with the setup in Europe where nobody uh you know has to worry about their next hamburger. But here you could. You could have to you could have that problem.
Shetty. What is it standing for? I mean what is the the the the shorts uh term saying and and what does it mean?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What sparked Maria Anna’s curiosity about SETI and led to this interview?
0:18–10:14
2
How did Seth Shostak’s early radio‑astronomy work in the Netherlands shape his SETI career?
10:14–20:17
3
What does SETI actually search for beyond just “life” in the universe?
20:17–36:40
4
Why does Seth say we still don’t know what dark matter is and how did he first encounter it?
36:40–41:52
Speakers
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