The Government Is Officially Preparing For First Alien Contact0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- November 21, 2022
A new SETI-Post Detection Hub established in Scotland with experts from around the world is focused on what comes after first contact.
A new SETI-Post Detection Hub established in Scotland with experts from around the world is focused on what comes after first contact.
An astronomical mystery dating back to the year when director Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released might be one giant leap closer to being solved.
With no way to safely repair it, the National Science Foundation calls it.
In a comprehensive search of a patch of the Southern sky, not even a hint of alien technology has been detected at low radio frequencies.
In a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team led by University of Manchester astronomers extended a sample of 1,327 stellar systems recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional 288,315 stars that also reside within the target fields of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia — increasing the number of stars analyzed by a factor of more than 200. Their results suggest that less than 0.04% of stellar systems have the potential of hosting advanced civilizations with the equivalent or slightly more advanced radio technology than 21st century humans.
In recent years, the explosive nature of exoplanet discovery (over 4,164 confirmed so far) has led to renewed interest in the timeless question: “Are we alone in the universe?” Or, as famed Italian physicist Enrico Fermi put it, “Where is everybody?” With so many planets to choose from and the rate at which our instruments and methods are improving, the search for life beyond Earth is really kicking into high gear.
The history of the search for extraterrestrial life sheds light on the consequences of dismissing fringe perspectives, in science and in other disciplines.
If so, China may be in the lead.
SETI@home researchers said they have what they need.
Alien hunters are scaling up their efforts in the search for an intelligent civilisation somewhere out in the void of space.