Along with his twin brother, James, and James' son Dominic, Benford has been rethinking the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, now celebrating its 50th year.

与他的双胞胎兄弟詹姆斯，以及詹姆斯的儿子多米尼克一道，本福德重新思考外星生物探索，或者是SETI计划，（译者注：所有旨在对地外文明进行搜索的所有计划的统称：外星生物探索），如今欢庆它走过50年的岁月。

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The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here on Earth by a radio telescope involved in a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

在蓝色背景上的明亮颜色表明在地球上收到了一个不寻常的信号，它来自于搜寻地外文明计划（SETI）的一台射电望远镜。

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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been doing this for 50 years, carefully listening for any ET call home.

为了聆听任何外星智慧生命的声音，寻找外星智慧生命工程（SETI）已经做了50年的工作。

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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.

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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.

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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.

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