SETI's Seth Shostak

When will we find evidence of life outside our solar system? 

That was one of the many questions posed by Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, during a presentation Saturday evening at Western Nevada College. 

And the answer he gave was probably in the next quarter century. 

The SETI Institute searches for life among the stars using radio telescopes, a mission dramatized in the movie “Contact” with Jodie Foster. But unlike Hollywood, the discovery of extraterrestrial life is likely to be less dramatic than the messages Foster heard wearing a set of headphones.

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