Science
SETI: new signal excites alien hunters – here’s how we could find out if it’s real – The Conversation UK
One way forward would be to abandon the traditional approach of using single-dish telescopes for SETI.
The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by Russian billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come from the nearest star to the Sun Proxima Centauri. This has generated a flood of excitement in the press and among scientists themselves. The discovery, which was reported by the Guardian but has yet to be published in a scientific journal, may be the search for extraterrestrial intelligences…
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