New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET 49
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."
Science journalism[sic] (Score:5, Informative)
Read the scientific goals of LOFAR here: http://www.lofar.org/astronomy/key-science/lofar-key-science-projects [lofar.org]
And here: http://www.lofar.org/geophysics/scientific-rationale/scientific-rationale [lofar.org]
And even here: http://www.lofar.org/agriculture/fighting-phytophtora-using-micro-climate/fighting-phytophtora-using-micro-climate [lofar.org]
But "extraterrestrial intelligence" is surely teh attentionz grabb0r!!!1
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