New and Improved SETI

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."

Comments

Black void

[jeffkjo1]

Each time I read a story on the search for ET, I become a little more disappointed. With the vast expanses of space out there, it seems surprising that we haven't found a signal, even if by accident. Perhaps I've seen one too many bad scifi movies, but where in the heck are the aliens.

A bigger question: why are all of the other solar systems so darned far away?