Monday, January 08, 2007

Astronomers seek out alien TV





At present, efforts to find extraterrestrial life are concentrated on searching for messages deliberately beamed across space, which would miss a civilisation that does not advertise its existence as the Earth does.

The beams would search for electromagnetic signals used on Earth for radio broadcasts, television and radar.

David Aguilar, the centre's director of communications, said: "We may pick up spurious signals from people that never meant for us to hear them and get an inkling that something's going on."

(Via Aberrant News.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If this telescope could manage to pick up some ET wildlife broadcasts it'd save a fortune for the space program. ;)