Hunt Intensifies For Aliens On Kepler's Planets

astroengine (1577233) writes "Could ET be chatting with colleagues or robots on sister planets in its solar system? Maybe so, say scientists who last year launched a new type of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, project to eavesdrop on aliens. Using data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team of scientists spent 36 hours listening in when planets in targeted solar systems lined up, relative to Earth's perspective, in hopes of detecting alien interplanetary radio signals. "We think the right strategy in SETI is a variety of strategies. It's really hard to predict what other civilizations might be doing," Dan Werthimer, director of SETI research at the University of California Berkeley, told Discovery News. So far the search hasn't turned up any artificial signals yet, but this marks a change in strategy for radio searches for ETI with Kepler data taking a focused lead."

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Eavesdrop on aliens

[rossdee]

Surely this is the job of NSA not NASA

Re:Have you NOT seen Mars Attacks?

[Paradise Pete]

If the late and great Hawking says to shut the fuck up then shut the fuck up!

He also said "Hey, I'm not dead yet, ya prick."