Seth Shostak: I would personally be very nervous.
Tom Foreman: Why?
Seth Shostak: Well, certainly, the experience on Earth has been that when explorers come to visit you, that's usually bad news. You know, I'm thinking of the Native Americans, when the Spaniards landed on the coast. People often say, "Oh, they're gonna come here and help us solve our environmental problems." Well, I'm not solving the environmental problems of the ants in my backyard, although I know the ants are there. I don't expect them to come here, however.
Tom Foreman: Are you then utterly dismissive of the idea of people who say that they've been here?
Seth Shostak: I'm not dismissive of it, but I challenge them to come up with better evidence.
Tom Foreman: What's it like when you're in there (at a radio telescope) and something comes through?
Seth Shostak: When you do get a signal that looks like it might be the real thing, I still feel the heart rate go up and I usually get out of the chair and watch the screens with great intensity
Tom Foreman: And you think you're going to hear something?
Seth Shostak: I think it may take a few decades yet, but it's not a question of waiting centuries. I really think it's within sight.
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Presidents and prisoners; scientists and soldiers; the heroic and the hated—all have sat down with National Geographic Channel Senior Anchor Tom Foreman as he has traveled the globe for the past 25 years. Starting out in small town radio in Alabama, he progressed through local television to join ABC Network News when he was 30. For a decade he covered virtually every major news story for World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20 and Good Morning America.
Now, as host and managing editor of the Emmy Award-winning Inside Base Camp with Tom Foreman, he brings his years of experience—and dozens of riveting guests—to the National Geographic Channel at 12:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, and Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
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