Name: Join the SETI search
Uploaded: 2009-02-20T01:00:00Z
Duration: 21 min 1 s
Description: The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.

The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.

Jill Tarter: Join the SETI search

Join the SETI search

In a universe brimming with possibilities, the quest for extraterrestrial intelligence unveils our cosmic loneliness and potential kinship.

SETI's ingenuity lies not just in the search for alien signals but in fostering a global, cosmic perspective that unites humanity.

The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would be a monumental, perspective-shifting event, redefining our place in the universe.