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We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

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Jill Tarter
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 16
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
New York City
New York
Jill Cornell Tarter
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Interstellar
Proxy
Distances
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Distance
Intelligence
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Technology

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