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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence ( SETI ) is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life.
SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project " Phoenix ", backed by private sources of funding.

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In 2003, Radio source SHGb02 + 14a was isolated by SETI @ home analysis, although it has largely been discounted by further study.
The United States government contributed to early SETI projects, but recent work has been primarily funded by private sources.
In 1986, UC Berkeley initiated their second SETI effort, SERENDIP II, and has continued with four more SERENDIP efforts to the present day.
As of June 28, 2009 the SETI @ home project has over 180, 000 active participants volunteering a total of over 290, 000 computers.
As of 2010, after 10 years of data collection, SETI @ home has listened to that one frequency at every point of over 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo with a least 3 scans ( out of the goal of 9 scans ), which covers about 20 percent of the full celestial sphere.
The SETI Institute has been collaborating with the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop a specialized radio telescope array for SETI studies, something like a mini-cyclops array.
The International Academy of Astronautics ( IAA ) has a long-standing SETI Permanent Study Group ( SPSG, formerly called the IAA SETI Committee ), which addresses matters of SETI science, technology, and international policy.
SETI Institute's Seth Shostak has claimed that knowledge of the discovery would likely leak as early as the verification process.
The SETI Institute has also publicly denied that the candidate signal Radio source SHGb02 + 14a is of extraterrestrial origin though full details of the signal, such as its exact location have never been disclosed to the public.
" For example, Peter Schenkel, while remaining a supporter of SETI projects, has written that " n light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest and to take a more down-to-earth view ... We should quietly admit that the early estimates — that there may be a million, a hundred thousand, or ten thousand advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy — may no longer be tenable.
SETI has also occasionally been the target of criticism by those who suggest that it is a form of pseudoscience.
Friedman has challenged SETI specialists to debate the issues, with no takers so far.
The SETI program began with Paul Horowitz ’ s Suitcase SETI and has grown to encompass searches in radio and optical wavelengths from the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth.
As one of the nearest Sun-like stars with the potential for a planet that may harbor life, Epsilon Eridani has been the target of SETI searches.
The SETI project has for the past several decades been conducting a search for signals being transmitted by extraterrestrial life located outside the solar system, primarily in the radio frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The system has been discovered to contain a pair of binary brown dwarfs, and has long been a prime candidate in SETI studies.
The first of these goals has to date yielded no conclusive results: no evidence for ETI signals has been shown via SETI @ home.
He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

SETI and been
Because it is the contact cross-section that is of interest to the SETI community, many additional factors and modifications of the Drake equation have been proposed.
Several decades of SETI analysis have not revealed any main sequence stars with unusually bright or meaningfully repetitive radio emissions, although there have been several candidate signals.
Project Argus was conceived as a continuation of the all-sky survey component of the late NASA SETI program ( the targeted search having been continued by the SETI Institute's Project Phoenix ).
Supporting the view of aggression, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, speculates that the finite quantity of resources in the galaxy and the " explorer " nature of any civilization would cause it to be aggressive in the same way that human explorers have been historically.
Several attempts have been made to transmit signals to other stars as well, see " Realized projects " at Active SETI and Interstellar Radio Messages.
BOINC has been developed by a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory ( SSL ) at the University of California, Berkeley led by David Anderson, who also leads SETI @ home.
Two Nobel Laureates have been associated with the SETI Institute: Charles Townes, key inventor of the laser, and the late Baruch Blumberg, who discovered the Hepatitis B vaccine.
It was later used by a private group as part of a SETI project, Project TARGET, and has recently been moved to a site outside Shelburne, Ontario.
It has been identified by Maggie Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute as the " Best SETI target " among the list of the 100 nearest G-type stars.
Former NASA consultant David Brin's lengthy rebuttal to SETI enthusiast's optimism about alien intentions concludes: " The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions.
It has been the site of two major conferences on SETI, and is recognised as the regional center for astronomical research.

SETI and used
It is used in the field of the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ).
Radio telescope s are often used by SETI projects
Until his death in 1996, the Society was actively led by Sagan, who used his celebrity and political clout to influence the political climate of the time, including protecting SETI in 1981 from congressional cancellation.
Instruments used by SETI Institute scientists include the Allen Telescope Array, the radio telescopes at Arecibo, Parkes, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
It is particularly popular amongst SETI researchers and is used by SETI worldwide.
The telescope was used as a follow-up instrument for possible SETI detections made at Arecibo between 1998 and the end of 2003.
In a July 1995 test of signal detection software to be used in its upcoming Project Argus search, SETI League executive director H. Paul Shuch made several drift-scan observations of the ' Wow!
The observatory completed the Ohio Sky Survey in 1971, and from 1973 – 1995, Big Ear was used to search for extraterrestrial radio signals, making it the longest running SETI project in history.

SETI and for
He advocated scientifically skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ).
SETI | Listening for signals ( image: Allen Telescope Array | Allen array ) 3.
* Project Phoenix ( SETI ), search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Screen shot of the screensaver for SETI @ home, a distributed computing project in which volunteers donate idle computer power to analyze radio signals for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence
SETI projects use scientific methods to search for intelligent life on other planets.
SETI projects necessarily make assumptions to narrow the search, the foremost being that electromagnetic radiation would be a medium of communication for advanced extraterrestrial life.
From NASA report SP-419: SETIthe Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
In 1979 the University of California, Berkeley launched a SETI project named " Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations ( SERENDIP )".
In 1980, Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman founded the U. S. Planetary Society, partly as a vehicle for SETI studies.
In the early 1980s, Harvard University physicist Paul Horowitz took the next step and proposed the design of a spectrum analyzer specifically intended to search for SETI transmissions.
Even 131, 000 channels weren't enough to search the sky in detail at a fast rate, so Suitcase SETI was followed in 1985 by Project " META ", for " Megachannel Extra-Terrestrial Assay ".
Sensitivity vs range for SETI radio searches.
In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.
Any individual can become involved with SETI research by downloading the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ( BOINC ) software program, attaching to the SETI @ home project, and allowing the program to run as a background process that uses idle computer power.

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