Friday, 12 October 2007

Seeking

Paul Allen's latest venture gets off the ground as the first bits of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) comes online as part of a $50 million search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

The builders hope that they will receive the first signals by 2025, though loyal readers of Ephemeral Isle will recall that such a message has already been received and it isn't exactly what Carl Sagan had in mind.

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