SETI

From RationalWiki
Revision as of 06:25, 30 November 2020 by Sqrt-1 (talk | contribs) (→‎top)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
It's not rocket science, it's...
Astronomy
Icon astronomy.svg
The Final Frontier
The abyss stares back
The woo is out there
UFOlogy
Icon ufology.svg
Aliens did it...
...and ran away

SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is a collective term for activities that search for extraterrestrial life, specifically intelligent life, "out there." When people talk about "SETI" as an entity, they usually mean the SETI Institute, a non-profit organization, or conflating other people's efforts with the Institute.

Aliens on my radio

The main method employed so far in the search has been reading the radio-frequency noise emitting from various stars and attempting to detect clearly artificial signals.

Most signals received and analysed have turned out to have natural explanations, but regardless, the methods employed by the group are scientifically sound and their reported signals are often featured in prominent journals. So even if SETI doesn't find life out there, it has found some very interesting non-life out there.

The Wow! signal

Wow! signal

In 1977 SETI picked up the Wow! signal.Wikipedia Astronomer Jerry Ehman heard 72 seconds of radio data transmitted from space.

See also

External links