SETI@Home needs your help to continue the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!
For the last thirteen years, SETI@home has brought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence to millions of participants around the world. They use the largest and most sensitive telescopes on earth to scan the skies for the faint whispers of another technology. Your tax-deductible donation will help enable them to … Read the rest of this article
We now have the technology to go snooping for extraterrestrials in our own backyard. No, not as close as little green men cutting up crop circles; instead, we should be able to detect an alien device positioned somewhere between the sun to 30 times farther out than Pluto.
What would aliens place 100 billion miles from the sun? Michael Gillon … Read the rest of this article
Computer simulations by a pair of researchers at the University of Edinburgh predict that a fleet of interstellar probes could explore the entire Milky Way galaxy within a fraction of the present age of Earth. This may seem like a tall order considering that our farthest interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is still less than a light-day from Earth after being … Read the rest of this article
SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is an almost uniquely American affair. There was a time when it was funded by the US government, but that funding resource was withdrawn many years ago and SETI research has continued primarily due to private funding. Now the British want to do their bit for this under-funded research topic. Whatever the results – … Read the rest of this article
In 1948, astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun and solar system planets through the galaxy. He suggested that pellets of fuel could be fired into the sun to produce explosions that would push the sun along like firecrackers exploding in a … Read the rest of this article
Here’s a quick email I received from the SETI@Home. Makes you think…
In 2012, Americans spent more than $6 billion on political campaigns. (That’s 15,000 times the annual SETI@home budget). And during the presidential campaign, none of the candidates mentioned SETI@home even once.
That’s OK. We understand that SETI isn’t a federal priority, and that no flood of federal dollars … Read the rest of this article
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