Back story: searching for signals.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1959 Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey – died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, (shown) and Giuseppe Cocconi write "Searching for Interstellar Communications," now considered a founding paper in the modern SETI SETI (sĕt`ē) [Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence], name given to a series of independent programs to detect radio signals from civilizations beyond the solar system. field. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1960 Project Ozma, led by astronomer Frank Drake (shown), uses a radio telescope to search for ET signals from the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1993 NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. halts funding for the search for ET signals. Other projects continue the effort, including SERENDIP SERENDIP Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations , a survey using the Arecibo radio telescope. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1999 SETI@home is launched. Volunteers use personal computers in screensaver mode to analyze chunks of data for an alien signal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2007 The first phase of the Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), formerly known as the One Hectare Telescope (1hT), is a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory (RAL) at the University of California, Berkeley to construct a radio interferometer that is dedicated in California is completed. Eventually it will scan a wide range of radio frequencies for ET signals. |
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