Prof Stephen Hawking backs venture to listen for aliens

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:18 pm

Hi all,

If you've not seen it, this makes for an interesting read:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33596271

As this seem to be including the SETI@home project, I wonder if we will get some new data to crunch from the 2 radio telescopes mentioned: Parkes (Aus) and Green Bank (US):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

Both of these have moveable dishes and hence can scan far more of the sky than the fixed 'scope at Arecibo.

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:43 pm

Hi all,

There some more details here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/scien ... share&_r=0

As they say in the article, this could really be the sort of "push" that the SETI search has needed for a long time...

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:35 am

Hi all,

I'll say one thing about this announcement - it seems to have generated a lot of interest, with a knock-on effect that quite a lot of new members have joined our SETI@home team.

http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/ubt_members.p ... &sz=2&rp=0

A very warm welcome to you all...

regards
Tim