UK astronomers to co-ordinate their search for alien signals

bbc ^ | 5 July 2013 Last updated at 12:01 ET | Jonathan Amos

[BenLurkin]

Academics from 11 institutions have set up a network to co-ordinate their Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (Seti).

The English Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, will act as patron.

The group is asking funding agencies for a small - about £1m a year - sum of money to support listening time on radio telescopes and for data analysis.

It would also help pay for research that considered new ways to try to find aliens.

Currently, most Seti work is done in the US and is funded largely through private donation.

[BenLurkin]

"...if we're alone in the Universe then the whole purpose in the Universe is in us. If we're not alone, that's interesting in a very different way."

[jsanders2001]

Anybody with half a brain would know that a gigantic parking lot cant be made for just one car.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Did the Democrap and RINO party immediately demand amnesty for them yet?

[cripplecreek]

I think its made for us with lots of cars.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Peter ODonnell]

I have intercepted a signal from intelligent life forms in outer space, it says, “ASSUME THE POSITION SCUM.”

[SunkenCiv]

The Mystery of the Intergalactic Radio Bursts
Time | July 5, 2013 | Michael D. Lemonick
Posted on 07/06/2013 4:54:09 AM PDT by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3039697/posts

[BenLurkin]

Very powerful microbursts from far away — or not nearly as powerful microbursts from our immediate neighborhood?

[SunkenCiv]

Aye, there’s the rub.

[Defiant]

I think, therefore I am.....the rest of you and the universe are just my entertainment.

[ANGGAPO]

Whats the fuss? There isn't anyone out there, we are alone in this big vacuum.

[KevinDavis]

How do you know that? We only scratch a tiny fragment of the universe.

[SunkenCiv]

Why all the fuss yourself? Personally, I don’t have any confidence in your psychic powers.