Two ex Microsoft gazillionaires (Paul Allen and Nathan Myhrvold) have given 12.5 million dollars "to a group of
astronomers in the San Francisco region, for the construction
of the largest-ever radiotelescope to be used in the search for
alien life." (According to this ZDnet story.) What was that Terence quote? "To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant." Still, this might be interesting. At the very least it will give us enough data so that everyone in the world can run SETI at home and we still won't be able to crunch through all the information. But while we're busy doing that, the question remains: aren't they already here?
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- jim 8-09-2000 2:41 pm