March 13, 1998: SETI - Seth Shostak

Art Bell interviews Seth Shostak, public programs scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Shostak explains that the project, renamed Phoenix after Congress killed NASA's SETI funding in 1993, now survives on private donations from supporters like Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The parallels to the film "Contact" prove remarkably close to reality. Shostak describes the technical challenges of distinguishing alien signals… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-13-1998-seti-seth-shostak