SALLY RIDE embodied the best of america; willingness to provide opportunity to females and homosexuals, a desire to improve, to explore and expand, everywhere, including outer space. her later years were devoted to inspiring children to enjoy science, which was her only un-american behavior.
jill tarter,recently retired directer of aerica's noble quest to discover signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, embodies these same characteristics. she now spends her time fundraising for S.E.T.I. without her our search for extraterrestrial intelligence would probably die, because obama and congress, perhaps unwisely, made drastic cuts to the space program in general, and SETI in particular.
the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life is a great and worthy project, and will probably yield incredible results, eventually, and costs only a fraction of what it costs to own and operate even a single aircraft carrier.
so far nothing has turned up, except for a couple of mystery signals here and there. but nothing definite, after nearly fifty years of looking. enrico fermi long ago suggested that the lack of success indicates that humanity is alone in the universe.
what it indicates is that the universe is really, really big. keep trying.
Bb
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