Science, Technology and Society 361: "Mars Exploration" -- Fall 2010

Monday, September 24, 2007

Scientists Hope to Listen for Potential ‘Friends” Elsewhere in the Universe

In Western Australia, an oversized antenna is being worked on and will be planned to be active in a couple of years, to listen to sounds coming from the universe from about a billion years ago. So far this paper states that there are no findings of extraterrestrials, however, they still have been diligently working towards finding intelligent life out there in the universe. Unfortunately the signals that were omitted from a billion years ago are of the same signaling sequence as radios and televisions, thus their struggle to filter out unwanted man made signals have been their main objective to over come. The two specialists on this task are Avi Loeb and Matias Zaldarriaga from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.This paper quotes the two specialists from Harvard, and also use related searches as their source: Space, Radio, American Astronomical Society, and Australia. I believe that this paper became news due to the sudden construction of this giant antenna in Australia. I had no problems reading this paper due to the great background description that it provided initially and throughout the paper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/space/09seti.html?ex=1169528400&en=715c

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