Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 15, 2011 @08:23AM from the is-anybody-out-there dept.

liqs8143 writes "Astronomers from the United States have begun searching for alien life on 86 possible earth-like planets. A massive radio telescope that listens for signs of alien life is being used for this project. These 86 planets are short-listed from 1235 possible planets detected by NASA's Kepler telescope. The mission is part of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, launched in the mid 1980s. A giant dish pointing towards each of the 86 planets will gather 24 hours of data, starting from this week."

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What exactly.. by slackzilly · 2011-05-15 08:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

..are the signs of alien life they will listen for?

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Re:too bad they cancelled TPF-1 by Insanity+Defense · 2011-05-15 09:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

Short sighted? Or did they think ahead and realize that finding life bearing worlds hurts their religious voters?