NATS 1745 Lecture : The Search for Life Beyond our Universe - April 1, 2014
13 Jul 2014
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In 1961 he organized a private conference for 11 hand picked astronomers who had developed some theories for how best to search for intelligent life: decided to form a research program, seti, mission was to listen to as many stars as possible at specific radio frequencies, the radio frequencies targeted b/c radio waves have long wave lengths, so they can easily penetrate atmospheres and whatnot, so they assumed that intelligent extraterrestrials would choose to broadcast radio frequencies like we have, needed funding to be granted time on radio dishes and computer equipment, after a decade of trying to prove the need for their program, they were finally given funding, through the 70s their search picked up interest and aid from nasa, no signals received except in 1977 received a very loud radio burst that they couldn"t attribute to any other source of radio emission.
