SETI

After the movie came out, of course, there was a lot of interest in SETI.

One of the first examples was SETI@home project out of Berkley, which used spare CPU cycles to crunch data coming from space.

Then the next day, page 3 of the local paper, a half page AP story about it complete with discussions about SETI etc.

WAY back in 1999, a badge of geek pride was to run a new screensaver program called SETI@home.

Whichever point in the sky the telescope happened to be pointed at, that's where the SETI receiver would listen for intelligent signals.

The goal of SETI is to find persistent signals - those that appear at the same frequencies and points in the sky, but at different times.

The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, to start up in 2005, will be Tarter 's largest contribution to instrumentation yet.

It was only after I had searched the entire SETI directory that I found out he is not even a part of the SETI organization.

Shostak said he based his estimation on the Drake Equation, a formula conceived by SETI pioneer Frank Drake.

One of the big challenges in SETI is to filter out intelligent but earth originating signals.

Plura Processing is a SETI-like distributed network harnessing the power of tens of thousands of computers.

Breaking News: NASA and SETI Astronomers detect an artificial alien radio signal originating from Ganymede, one of Jupiter's largest moons.

So a team led by SETI Institute astronomer Laurance Doyle decided to take a closer look.

Such short, targeted blips, dubbed Benford beacons, should be the targets of SETI efforts, a growing number of scientists say.

SETI projects necessarily make assumptions to narrow the search, and thus no exhaustive search has been conducted so far.

This means that the SETI receiver was perched permanently above the Arecibo dish at the base of the aging line feed antenna .

The United States government contributed to earlier SETI projects, but recent work has been primarily funded by private sources.

The best part of this type of search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, study is that the data may already be in hand.

Now, I throw this slide up because it indicates to me that, even if SETI does hear something , can we figure out what they said ?

The SETI group, of course, is searching for an intelligent signal emanating from somewhere in the universe.

A look at the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek Observatory about 290 miles northeast of San Francisco, Calif.

The Seti@home project used this type of strategy and is quite effective.

" So it's something which you can always refer to SETI and say, " Well, somebody must be doing this, somehow.

A familiar example of this type of distributed computing is the SETI@Home project (see Resources).

No one from SETI is expecting to intercept a greeting in a recognizable language.

Operating outside the confines of NASA's bureaucracy, Tarter says, the SETI Institute runs like a nonprofit business.

SETI scientists traced it back to the constellation Sagittarius, just to the northwest of the globular cluster M55.

In 1960, he conducted the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence, a project now known as SETI.

Fifty years ago, the journey to find answers took a different path and SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, began.

Now, with the ALFA consortium operating the multi-beam receiver, things have become much simpler for SETI observers.

So, a few years ago, I actually started getting very interested in the SETI program.

This is called active SETI, or METI, where the "M" stands for messaging.

Did NASA and SETI astronomers actually detect an alien signal from one of Jupiter's largest moons, Ganymede, during the 1980's?

SETI pioneer Carl Sagan 's groundbreaking series COSMOS is returning to television on The Science Channel.

A search for these signals is ongoing by several groups including volunteer members of the SETI League.

The SETI project is, as its name suggests, a continuous hunt for sentient, otherworldly life.

It was the first in what became a series of experiments in SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

And if aliens could be sending out this type of signals then it follows that SETI researchers should be on the lookout for them.

Well, SETI uses the tools of astronomy to try and find evidence of someone else's technology out there.

Such false positive signals are, to SETI, Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).

For three years, this issue has been exercising a group of SETI scientists in the International Academy of Astronautics.

NASA and SETI astronomers picked up on a radio signal that seemed to have a coded message sometime in the mid 1980's.

My SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) continues unabated. . . having scoured Bombay, its on to Goa. I am optimistic.

In northern California, the SETI Institute has already begun constructing an array composed of individual 6-meter antennas.

A more far-fetched plan on SETI drawing boards is to build a radio telescope on the far side of the moon.

So the SETI project workers divide the work among volunteers who visit their website.

This "optical SETI" approach was pioneered at Harvard University.

Started in 1999, the SETI system harnesses shared PC power to analyze radio-telescope data for sounds of alien intelligence.

Tarter said that, as far as scientists know, no SETI device has ever received a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence.

Well, this is the question the Edge foundation asked this year, and four of the respondents said, "SETI. " Why?

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But not for the aliens, points out SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, who hunts for ET the old-fashioned way -- with radio waves.

Also, we probably need a bigger, more sensitive listening device, such as the recently commissioned SETI's Allen Telescope Array.

SETI wants there to be stuff out there.

I really applaud the SETI efforts , but we have not heard anything yet .

If you receive something interesting, well that's what SETI does actually, what SETI has been doing for many years.

When Chief of State Leia Organa Solo traveled to Nam Chorios, she met with the apparent son of Seti Ashgad, who had the same name.

It now appears that SETI may soon raise enough money to get the ATA up and running again.

But Tarter believes that SETI can change life here on Earth.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is a 50-year-old idea.

He is our human works of art left to us, or SETI clear what the origin of human life?

By 2005 over 5 million unique users had downloaded SETI@home, and were contributing to the search.

The website will make vast amounts of SETI data available to the public for the first time.

Which is why Phil Morrison calls SETI, "the archaeology of the future. "

2010 will mark SETI's 50 -year anniversary.

Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, and chair of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Permanent Study Group

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