SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intellegence
Karl Gauss in about 1820 (mathematician)
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Charles Croes (1869)
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Drake Equation
Kepler. Launched March 7, 2009 Measures the very slight change in luminosity.
23 across 73 down Bits are turned into black and white squares
Nicola Tesla “coherent signals from Mars” in 1899
Guglielmo Marconi “Strange Signals from ET” in 1920
Frank Drake 1960
Arecibo
The SETI screen saver will analyze a certain part of the sky. Looking for Gaussian candidates. a.Strong signals b.Repeating data
Now 42 dishes, will have 350 dishes
Square kilometer array
The true watering hole. A fairly quiet part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Giordano Bruno – Italy (1548 – 1600) Burned at stake for suggesting that there was extraterrestrial life