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Jill Tarter and the Allen Telescope Array continue the search for alien radio signals
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Jill Tarter and the Allen Telescope Array continue the search for alien radio signals
The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter uses the Allen Telescope Array in California to scan the cosmos for artificial signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.
- Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, is listening with 42 radio telescopes in Northern California for signals that cannot be produced by natural sources.
- Tarter stated the array surveys tens of thousands of star systems continuously and completes in ten minutes what once took ten days.
- Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy said the galaxy's vast distances make communication with alien life nearly impossible, with a round-trip signal taking 100,000 years.
- Tarter acknowledged no signal has been found but said the search has only begun, comparing it to pulling a few straws from a cosmic haystack.
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