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SETI Institute

SETI Institute. [ Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ]. Sadie Kinslow. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ ot4fHkvScvE/SwMylIbzTFI/AAAAAAAAAHs/MynZzgrUz6w/s1600/SETI_logo_CMYK.jpg. What?. SETI is an institution that conducts scientific research on life in the universe

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SETI Institute

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  1. SETI Institute [ Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ] Sadie Kinslow http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ot4fHkvScvE/SwMylIbzTFI/AAAAAAAAAHs/MynZzgrUz6w/s1600/SETI_logo_CMYK.jpg

  2. What? • SETI is an institution that conducts scientific research on life in the universe • seeks life by searching some signature of its technology (telescopes, satellite dishes) • From 1994-2004 SETI was funded solely by donations until 2005 when a NASA grant was awarded for work on signal detection for the Allen Telescope Array http://takemystockplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jar-jar-binks-poster-card-c10227315.jpeg

  3. Signal? On August 15, 1977 while working on a project for SETI in Delaware, Ohio, Dr. Jerry R. Ehman detected a strong narrowband radio signal The signal bore expected characteristic of non-terrestrial, non-Solar System origin It lasted for a 72 second duration, but has not been detected again Finding the location of the signal was difficult because telescope used two feeds to search for signals, each pointing to a slightly different direction in the sky following Earth's rotation They eventually traced the signal to the region of the sky that displays the Sagittarius constellation

  4. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#Location_of_the_signal • http://www.seti.org/node/647

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