Finding Intelligent Alien Life Would Offer Hope For Our Own Future

Are we alone in the universe? We don't know. But as Carl Sagan said, if we are, it seems like an awful waste of space. At Singularity University Global Summit, Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver chair for SETI, discussed her mission to answer the question that's haunted us as long as we've known enough to ask. The SETI Institute is an organization dedicated to finding an intelligent signal out in the cosmos--some inkling we have company--and...