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With all the in-motion SETI research underway, just how prepared are we
for a confirmed, door-ringing neighborhood watch revelation? We should begin to think about how we convey
this information, possible impacts to society, to religion, to politics, to
technology, to governments.
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- To spot potential intelligent life out
there in the great beyond, first you must cast a net wide by using an array of
techniques and technologies.
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- Any "fishing expedition" for E.T.
includes close-in studies of life in extreme environments right here on Earth,
to help us recognize any signatures we might find on Mars or deep diving
through the icy shell of Jupiter's moon, Europa.
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- The search can also blend in the use of
space-based telescopes to inspect Earth-like planets circling their home stars.
Then there's cupping a proverbial ear to the cosmos using radio telescopes to
pick up any bustling interstellar civilization or perhaps look for far-off
laser-pulsed communiqués from extraterrestrial homebodies.
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- These and other efforts are actively
pursued by the “SETI Institute” in Mountain View, California. More than a
hundred institute scientists are busily carrying out research in astronomy and
astrophysics, astrobiology, as well as exoplanets, climate and bio-geoscience
and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
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- All 27 antennas that constitute the Very
Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico have been outfitted with new gear to perform
24/7 SETI observations under a collaboration between the SETI Institute and the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the group that operates the VLA.
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- "COSMIC” is really the most
comprehensive SETI search on a single instrument in history. It will analyze data for the possible
presence of "techno-signatures" - detectable signatures and signals
that shout out the presence of distant advanced civilizations.
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- In scientific circles, techno-signatures are
viewed as a subset of the far more established search for
"biosignatures", evidence of microbial or other primitive life
loitering on some of the billions of exoplanets we now know exist.
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- This includes the SETI Institute's newly
augmented Allen Telescope Array situated northeast of San Francisco. The Allen
Telescope Array (ATA) has undergone antenna redesign and now is outfitted with
high-end computers, signal processors, and other electronics making it far
faster than ever before. The instrument
is performing at a level that it has never performed at since it was built.
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- SETI Institute scientists are to delve into
powerful Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a head-scratching phenomenon wanting of
explanation.
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- During nine years of deep space scoping, it
showed our galaxy contains billions of exoplanets. It told us that planets are everywhere and a
lot of them are potentially habitable.
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- Launched on March 6, 2009, the Kepler
space telescope became NASA's first mission to detect Earth-size planets in the
habitable zones of their stars.
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