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11-year-old helps SETI find aliens

By T.K. Randall
May 30, 2009 · Comment icon 5 comments

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An 11-year-old boy has been assisting SETI in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence when he suggested that they should try transmitting the sounds of nature in to space as part of a kid's science challenge.
The other day, in a beige cubicle at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, a scientist named Kamau Hamilton tapped some numbers into a computer. A giant radio telescope 300 miles away swiveled clockwise in response -- the better to detect a possible extraterrestrial transmission. "


Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by REBEL 16 years ago
Didn't some ancient cultures already believe mother nature (earth) transmits her own sounds...Or was that in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(?)
Comment icon #2 Posted by Lt_Ripley 16 years ago
wonder if they'll send up the sound of a toilet flush...or car horns ...or war... that seems to be mans natural sounds.
Comment icon #3 Posted by REBEL 16 years ago
lol! More man's natural sounds going out into the heavens.
Comment icon #4 Posted by thefinalfrontier 16 years ago
lol! More man's natural sounds going out into the heavens. Rebel you always crack me up, Keep em coming my friend,
Comment icon #5 Posted by Warbringer 16 years ago
"I thought aliens might hear them and recognize them" That would certainly be poetic.


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