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SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now) 137

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 07, 2011 @01:21AM
from the for-all-time-is-a-little-loftier dept.

Ransak writes "It looks as if SETI has met its short term funding goal to restart the Allen Telescope Array. Is crowdsourcing the long term future of pure research projects?"

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Re:This is the way it's supposed to be (Score:5, Informative)

by Arlet (29997) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @04:33AM (#37012970)

SETI is testing the hypothesis that something is out there.
No, they are testing that something is out there (but not too far), with a powerful transmitter, and using a big dish aimed at us at exactly the same time we are aiming our dish at them.
Everything else is too weak to detect.

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