# How Can We Know That We Found Life Elsewhere by Carolyn Porco > “What will it take for us to be fully confident that we have found life elsewhere in the cosmos?” > **— Carolyn Porco**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Carolyn Porco](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27540) — Carolyn Porco's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-185). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Article:** [[articles/Beyond the Drake Equation and the Multiscale Intelligence We Fail to See|Beyond the Drake Equation and the Multiscale Intelligence We Fail to See]] - **Article:** [[articles/Project Hail Mary and Other Intelligences|Project Hail Mary and Other Intelligences]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/SETI Institute|SETI Institute]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What will it take for us to be fully confident that we have found life elsewhere in the cosmos?” — Carolyn Porco, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carolyn-porco-we-know-that-we-found ```