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In March, three Berkeley scientists set out to double-check the most promising signals found so far from the world's largest distributed computing project, SETI@Home. Following up on what is an equivalent of a million years of computation (or CPU units), their skymap of interesting candidates focuses on the pulses, spikes and steady radio signals that might be located near a star.
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Sunday, September 21, 2003
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We know that there are at least 75 planets outside our own solar system, orbiting their distant stars. Although we have never seen any of these planets with our own eyes, several different techniques exist to detect these extrasolar planets.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
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A recent European conference discussed what a new class of planetary search candidates called 'waterworlds' might require: foremost after water itself, for life to originate elsewhere on a distant world depends on a rocky core and organic pulp. But for an astronomer to see this world as it passes in front of its parent star, some precise telescopic scissors may be forthcoming.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
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Phoning home intergalactically may have one natural prerequisite if a civilization is hoping to connect: timing their precursor signal or 'ring' so that we might know that they're broadcasting. Dr. Robin Corbet, of the Universities' Space Research Association discusses his research findings on Synchronized SETI.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
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How to deal with the success of a SETI enterprise? A declaration of principles has put forward the protocol for reporting an unexplained signal detection- how to notify the astronomical community, the government and the public (the order is unspecified).
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Wednesday, August 13, 2003
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Renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, famous for his designs of grand energy collectors called Dyson's Sphere, has put down a public bet: life will first be discovered elsewhere not on a planet or moon, but someplace other than what we could recognize as terrestrial turf.
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
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Twice a year, every spring and autumn, a SETI team travels to the coast of Puerto Rico. Their journey is one hundred times faster than the one that Columbus first set out on--500 years ago. Their technology for sky-pointing navigation is so well-honed that it is capable of registering the equivalent energy of what a kiss blown in a stadium might offer--in other words, Puerto Rico is listening closely.
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Monday, July 14, 2003
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Software for detecting otherworldly signals seem to push the limits of what one can reasonably ask a computer to do. Sifting through cosmic status by frequency, in hopes of finding an intelligent tone, puts SETI researchers at the console of discovery's deck.
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Saturday, July 12, 2003
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A brief tour of the solar system highlights the hotspots and some places to find to consider if our planet has close enough relatives for a few unknown cousins to declare themselves.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003
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The SETI Institute's Edna DeVore reports from the second annual NASA Astrobiology Science Conference held at NASA's Ames Research Center, April 7 to 11, 2002.
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Monday, June 02, 2003
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