SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects

An anonymous reader writes "Today Astrobiology Magazine interviewed SETI@home Project Scientist, Dan Wertheimer, about subjects including the first detailed 'best of SETI' candidate reobservations for repeating telescope acquisition on the most promising 166 star candidates. Their policy is not to release precise sky coordinates on the best ones yet (so far a signal called SHGb11+15a), with this type of Gaussian signal shape. The candidates number some 400 million Gaussians and 5.7 billion spikes."

Comments

Re:An excellent point from Ray Kurweil

[akiaki007]

That's silly. Because the last I checked, humans are capable of sending these radio signals (we already do), but are not capable or sending a virus sized microchip to a far off system to investigate them.

So, if they are as advanced (or a little more/less), then SETI will do what they have set out to do.

Interstellar OSS

[Idou]

Of course, that is assuming they haven't already sold into .NET . . . maybe that is why SETI is not letting the world know where the signals are coming from yet.