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Harvard Telescope To Seek Out Alien Beams

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Posted on Apr 14, 2006
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The SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) telescope, the first dedicated specifically to the search for alien life, will conduct a year-round survey.

The apparatus will search for light emissions from distant galaxies. Scientists say light beams would be a logical way for alien civilizations to attempt communication.

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A new optical telescope designed solely to detect light signals from alien civilisations has opened for work at an observatory in Harvard, US.

It will conduct a year-round survey, scanning all of the Milky Way galaxy visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

Seti is an exploratory science to scour the cosmos for signatures of technology built by alien beings.

Some experts believe alien societies are at least as likely to use light for communicating as radio transmissions.

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By Joe DeLuca, April 14, 2006 at 9:22 pm #
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Would that superior alien beings would arrive here for all to see and all to learn from, angels of transcendence bringing the keys to man’s redemption, reminding us that the golden rule is all we need, that the pursuit of power is the misdemeanor, its abuse the single felony, and greed a hollow dream, revealing that tecchnology is nature, a secretion like a spider’s web.

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