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New and Improved SETI

Posted by michael on from the is-there-anybody-out-there dept.

nomrniceguy writes "The new year is sure to be memorable for SETI, as glossy new instruments come on-line. At Harvard University, a survey telescope designed to sweep massive swaths of the sky in a hunt for extraterrestrial laser flashes is becoming a reality. In Puerto Rico, the famed Arecibo telescope is getting a new feed that will speed up searches by seven times. And in California, the SETI Institute and Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Lab will soon be scanning the star-clotted realms of the inner Milky Way with the first-stage implementation of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) and will eventually boast 350 antennas, each 20 feet in diameter. This impressive antenna farm will be spread over about a half square-mile of terrain."

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  1. 350 Antennas by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > "... 350 antennas, each 20 feet in diameter. This impressive antenna farm will be spread over about a half square-mile of terrain."

    ~fitzprrklpop~ople of Earth, can you hear us now?~fwopzzwwep~

  2. 'Extraterrestrial laser flashes'? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So do they expect to be able to see space battles between Klingons and Romulans or something?