Search for ET: The high-profile supporters
The resumption of operations at California’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) was made possible by donations from celebrity supporters including Jodie Foster. Jodie Foster -...
View ArticleStatus of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts
Distribution of Astropulse candidates on the sky. The dots are the potential sources. Contours are LAB HI survey logarithmic contours. The dashed horizontal lines represent the limits of Arecibo’s...
View ArticleLife in the Universe by Stephen Hawking
In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even...
View ArticleHow SETI@Home Screens ET Candidates
SETI@Home volunteers have found 4.2 billion signals of interest since the project began in 1999. What happens to them? SETI@Home is a distributed computing initiative that analyses radio signals for...
View ArticleDetection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects ….
….in the Outer Solar System and Beyond Abraham Loeb and Edwin L. Turner Existing optical telescopes and surveys can detect artificially-illuminated objects comparable in total brightness to a major...
View ArticleThe Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes …
… and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth Keith B. Wiley It has been widely acknowledged that self-replicating space-probes (SRPs) could explore the galaxy very quickly relative to the age of the...
View ArticleTime to give SETI a chance
by Jill Tarter - newscientist Earth 2.0 is in our sights. Checking it for signs of life will be the next big issue THE thousands of probable worlds discovered in orbit around other stars are making our...
View ArticleHow would the public react if Seti found evidence of alien life?
‘In a sense, we’ve run that experiment,’ says Seth Shostak, chief alien hunter at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Seti uses the Allen Telescope Array to monitor thousands of stars for...
View ArticleFirst VLBI SETI Search Finds No Radio Transmissions
… From Gliese 581 Astronomers have completed the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence on nearby exoplanets using very long baseline interferometry uv coverage of the LBA observation of the...
View ArticleA Career Waiting for E.T. to Phone
Elwood H. Smith – Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company By DENNIS OVERBYE Jill Tarter once complained to me that she had no poetry in her soul. It was 1990, and NASA was getting ready to undertake...
View ArticleUK SETI Research Network
UK astronomers to co-ordinate their search for alien signals British scientists are to make a concerted effort to look for alien life among the stars. Academics from 11 institutions have set up a...
View ArticleThe Ĝ Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy...
I. Background and Justification J. T. Wright, B. Mullan, S. Sigurðsson, M. S. Povich We motivate the Ĝ infrared search for extraterrestrial civilizations with large energy supplies. We discuss some...
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