The Cosmic Haystack is large.(From SETI to ASTROBIOLOGY: Reassessment and Update--Four Views)

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Tarter, Jill | Copyright information

The Cosmic Haystack is large, unimaginably large, and at least nine-dimensional. (1) And that's only the haystack we can describe today with what we know about physics and technology in the twenty-first century, and from our terrestrial and inescapably anthropocentric vantage point. The fact that we've so far pulled a few straws from that haystack, examined them, and declared that no "needle" has yet been found doesn't make the haystack any smaller, nor invalidate the reasons we se...

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