Finding radio signals that may be sent throughout the Universe by advanced cultures living among the stars has fascinated researchers for quite some time, and, ever since the technology has become available, surveys of the skies have pointed telescope antennas at many sources of radio wavelengths, hoping to find mess... |
17 September 2009
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Even though it may sound like something that comes out of the science-fiction books, the NASA American space agency and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) initiative, along with scientists, psychologists, ethicists, lawyers, representatives of the media and anthropologists, have recently held a thre... |
19 February 2009
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With the help of the new SIMDAT project, communications and data transfers between collaborating corporations will become much easier, the researchers behind it say. Currently, a common effort of two companies can only take place after months of setting up hardware and overcoming various engineering problems. And the... |
14 December 2008
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A new SETI tool in the search for intelligent alien lifeforms has been built. It is called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) and it has recently been powered up in its first stage configuration of 42 antennas. When complete, in 2025, it will feature the combined power of 350 such dishes. The project, financed by Paul A... |
13 November 2008
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Unknowingly, when looking at certain stars with special features, we might be witnessing message transmission attempts from other civilizations, researchers claim. Since mankind first came up with the idea that space might be too big just for us or that maybe God hasn't wasted all the universe just on terr... |
12 September 2008
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Third degree contact. Three words which can probably make a lot of people laugh. But this is no laughing matter; just look around you, we're not living in an isolated area, we're living in a universe, billions of light years across, with billions of galaxies and stars and most likely intelligent life as wel... |
14 March 2008
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Recognize the guy in the picture? He is supposed to be an alien living somewhere in our galaxy, which will most likely pay us a visit in the near future with a warp capable ship, just to slaughter us like pigs while dressed in an invisibility cloak. Possible? Highly unlikely, according to planetary astronomer Dr Cha... |
13 March 2008
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These are the questions astrophysicists are approaching at the Sound of Silence conference at the Arizona State University, after about five decades of listening to radio signals coming from outer space. Either extraterrestrials don't exists, are to far away and can't hear us, not intelligent enough to hold... |
8 February 2008
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Well... not you specifically, just your computer! After some extensive upgrades of the Arecibo radio telescope which included, aside the first paint job in more than four decades, the installation of seven new radio receivers that allow the telescope to extend its radio spectrum to over 40 times that of the original... |
4 January 2008
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