Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive
They can’t hide out there for ever
This month the VLA (Very Large Array) radio-astronomy observatory in New Mexico will begin sending every bit of data it harvests for astronomers’ research projects to COSMIC, a computer cluster dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). A similar system has been piggybacking on the MeerKAT observatory in South Africa (pictured) since December.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “You can’t hide out there for ever”
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