March 13, 2002: SETI - Seth Shostak

Art Bell calls directly into the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to speak with Seth Shostak, astronomer and public face of the SETI Institute's Project Phoenix. The conversation opens with Shostak explaining how he and Jill Tarter, the real-life inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in Contact, split observing shifts at the world's largest radio telescope, a 1,000-foot dish nestled in a bowl-shaped valley. Art presses Shostak about a NASA report describing a puzzling X-ray beacon near… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-13-2002-seti-seth-shostak