SETI to Upgrade Software, Telescope

Professor_Quail writes "Space.com reports that SETI@home is planning to transfer it's operations from Arecibo to another telescope in Australia, where they say lies an increased chance of finding extra-terrestrials. The Australian telescope is more powerful, with a wider view of the sky; scientists are betting that this new telescope will also help find signs of 'shriveling' black holes."

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Aliens down under?

[Steve Franklin]

"...in Australia, where they say lies an increased chance of finding extra-terrestrials."

I haven't been following the UFO press lately. Has there been a spate of sightings in the Outback?

On a more serious note, are these characters saying that there are more advanced stellar civilizations in the southern sky than the northern sky? One shudders at the contorted logic and statistical analysis that could have led to such a conclusion.