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New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET

Posted by samzenpus on from the phone-011-then-home dept.

astroengine writes "A new radio telescope is under construction, consisting of 44 stations (each consisting of several antennae) spread across Europe. The pan-European Low Frequency Array is half built and already returning unprecedented observations of cosmic radio sources. The best thing is, when it's complete, SETI will be able to use the array to seek out transmitting extraterrestrial civilizations in these untapped low radio frequencies."

2 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. Science journalism[sic] by gzipped_tar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the scientific goals of LOFAR here: http://www.lofar.org/astronomy/key-science/lofar-key-science-projects

    And here: http://www.lofar.org/geophysics/scientific-rationale/scientific-rationale

    And even here: http://www.lofar.org/agriculture/fighting-phytophtora-using-micro-climate/fighting-phytophtora-using-micro-climate

    But "extraterrestrial intelligence" is surely teh attentionz grabb0r!!!1

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  2. Re:First Post? by MadKeithV · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah if only I had mod points. Reference: Atari Video Game Burial .