Alien-seeking radio dishes go dark

“Any number of headlines about E.T. not being able to phone home are already hitting the wires, but the hackneyed reference to everyone's favorite pop culture alien figure underscores a more troubling reality: the decades-long search for extraterrestrial life suffered a blow with the announcement that a $50 million alien telescope array is being mothballed because of a lack of funding.

SETI, an acronym for the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, refers to a project that's been underway to answer the not-so-inconsiderable question of whether humans are truly alone in the universe.

The original plans called for the Allen Telescope Array, part of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, to house as many as 350 dishes...”

 

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Possible that we may never here from aliens

A number of astronomers and astrobiologists believe that our galaxy, the Milky Way, may be home to a large variety of extraterrestrial organisms, inhabiting other planets in other star systems. But they also believe that we may never be able to communicate or identify these creatures, largely because many of the new “species” may simply not have the technology to do so.

In addition, our contact technology may also be unsuitable for this purpose. The SETI initiative is sending signals in space on a daily basis, but there is no way of knowing what worlds these signals reach, Discovery News reports...

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