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Save Arecibo! (because aliens don't do voicemail)
The folks at SETI@home have put out a desperate plea for the community to bust out those quill pens and start writing strongly-worded letters to congress persons. Apparently the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and SETI@home's data source, is being threatened with some massive budget cuts. Given that a replacement for Arecibo won't be online until 2020 at best, folks are understandably upset. Turns out Arecibo is also one of the best shots we have at detecting an earth-threatening astroid before it's too late and we have to sit through another Elijah Wood movie on the subject. You know what you have to do.
[Via Engadget] The folks at SETI@home have put out a desperate plea for the community to bust out those quill pens and start writing strongly-worded ... more -
Telescopes search for signals from space
U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, their leader says.
Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, said 42 of the planned 350 telescopes have been built in a mostly uninhabited area about 300 miles northeast of San Jose, Calif., the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday. SETI stands for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
She said the area, just north of Lassen National Park, is an ideal location because it is protected from more mundane radio signals.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donated $25 million to get the project going. The Allen Telescope Array is also funded by San Francisco-area benefactors, including the University of California-Berkeley and Silicon Valley chip developer Xilinx, the newspaper said.
"In many cultures throughout history, we've always wondered: Is there anybody else? Are we the only ones who can look up at the universe and wonder? I live in the first generation of humans that can try to answer
this," Tarter told the Mercury News. U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, t... more -
Scientists want PCs to Help find ET
SETI scientists are calling on the owners of desktop computers to add their combined number-crunching power to the search for alien life.
[insert 'search for intelligent girlfriend' joke here] SETI scientists are calling on the owners of desktop computers to add their combined number-crunching power to the search for alien li... more
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