The Emeritus Chair for SETI Research, Jill Tarter, is on the #PrettyIntensePodcast today. Have you ever wondered if we are alone? Jill has spent her whole life looking for that scientific, undeniable proof of technological civilizations beyond Earth. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program. In 1997 Jodi Foster played a character based on Jill in one of my favorite films ever, “Contact.” She talks about the challenges of being a female scientist at a time when only men were welcom