{"id":1170,"date":"2009-08-10T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T04:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2009-08-10T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T04:51:46","slug":"what-daily-thing-there-could-be-life-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/what-daily-thing-there-could-be-life-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"What Daily Thing? There Could Be Life Out There!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I took a night off, and tonight I did, too, but I at least got out of the house. I joined Kishore Hari&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecafesf.com\" target=\"_blank\">Down to a Science<\/a> program for tonight&#8217;s presentation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/Page.aspx?pid=455\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Shostak<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the SETI Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shostak talked about the history and mission of the SETI project, and took lots of questions from a largely excited and completely sympathetic audience. I can&#8217;t really do justice to Shostak&#8217;s talk. If you&#8217;ve followed SETI at all, frankly, there was not a lot of new information, but I hadn&#8217;t quite realized what an engaging speaker he is ad lib. <\/p>\n<p>And he took potshots at dolphins, Neptune, San Mateo, college education, the impoverished prisoners of the 4 dimensions we experience, people with navels, AND the post office. I mean, in a nice way, but I can&#8217;t help saying, you know, the post office has a really hard job. It&#8217;s like DNA, when you think about it, especially if you really love your Netflix subscription, as I do &#8211; so many things can go wrong it&#8217;s kind of amazing what a good job they do.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you get a chance to see him in an interactive environment, go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I took a night off, and tonight I did, too, but I at least got out of the house. I joined Kishore Hari&#8217;s Down to a Science program for tonight&#8217;s presentation from Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute. Shostak talked about the history and mission of the SETI project, and took lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[368,677,1052,1053,1071,1185],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-words","tag-down-to-a-science","tag-kishore-hari","tag-science","tag-science-cafe","tag-seth-shosktak","tag-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-iS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}