As anyone who has seen the Discovery Channel broadcast knows, it did an excellent job of explaining astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Staff tell an apocryphal-sounding anecdote from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, when a promising signal turned out be a technician warming his lunch at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
In describing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Prof.
"In some sense, this is all academic, because we have been broadcasting to aliens for decades, " says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Perhaps the most famous effort in the hunt for alien life is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti), once funded in part by US space agency Nasa, which continues to listen to and look around the cosmos for signs of intelligent civilisations elsewhere.
The SETI Institute, a private non-profit, best known for its ties to the eponymous search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe, is looking to add a little bit of audience participation to the act of naming Pluto's newly discovered moons, which sport those rather uninspired alphanumeric designations.
He conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence and helped construct the Voyager interstellar record, which carried pictures and music from Earth out into the cosmos.
The SETI Institute is now offering the world the first taste of raw SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) data collected by the Allen Telescope Array in California.
Such schemes gained fame with the project known as SetiAtHome (for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (FORBES, Nov. 15, 1999).
The Institute, whose goal is to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has a clear, attractive layout -- and a sense of humor.
After funding for SETI, which stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, " was cut, researchers looked around for a new way to get the computing power they needed.
应用推荐