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The first telescope designed to search for alien life began operating this month from northern California. The state-of-the-art radio telescope, being operated by the SETI Institute, is still undergoing development and will be able to examine more stars in a year or two than Earth-bound scientists have been able to study in more than 45 years, the Washington Post reported Monday. "We could have a billion intelligent cultures with radio waves buzzing around them, but we haven't had the capability to detect them," said astronomer Michael M. Davis, who overseas the project. The Allen Telescope Array, named after its most generous donor, Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, will be made up of 350 or more small silver aluminum dishes spread across 90 acres. Many of the components used in the new telescope are basic off-the-shelf parts, making it cheaper and easier to build than its counterparts. While a large telescope might cost $200 million to build, Davis said, the ATA will cost about $35 million. All rights reserved. © 2005 United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of United Press International. Related Links SETI The Allen Telescope Array SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Search For ET To Look Again At 150 Signals
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2005After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look. |
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