Matt T Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 I've got a science assignment due tomorrow and it adds up to around 5% of my school certificate, so it's kinda important. The assignment is titled "searching for intelligent life in our universe". I'm having a bit of trouble finding some info - I've tried google with limited success, and I don't have any books or anything. The assignment is meant to be on what we have done in the past to search for life, what we are doing now, and what we could do in the future. Theories and stuff like that would also be useful. So if anyone knows any links for stuff like this, I'd appreciate a hand :) cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Check out SETI@home. Or just the SETI Intitute. I don't really know many other organizations with the equipment to do it, that also do it. :) Wikipedia also use to have good articles, for example about these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarik Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Search for SETI on Google. Also go to Nasa.gov and look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Lupascu Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 The Discovery Channel website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warning Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 (edited) I don't know much but we have been taught that the topic you are talking about is called SETI, - the search for extra-terrestrial intelligience, and that radio teleoscopes are used to scan each star in our viewable space segment. As to what we may do in the future we may use ionizing engines or something of the like, that emit a blue glow to send probes lightyears out into space and see if they come into contact with another life, as the engine uses extremely low fuel and due to the nature of space even though the probe starts off slow, it will accelerate to massive speeds by the time it reaches the edge of our solar system. A probe using somewhat old and cumbersome rocket technology may also be launched, and is much quicker off the mark, but does not accelerate ultimately to as high speeds, and does not have the capacity to carry the same fuel as the first probe concept. Obviously most scientists seem to beleive that there WILL be extra-terrestrial life in our universe and as we pass through the most dense part of space, *(of which we will experience in the next few thousand years) we may see a higher probability that we will come across ET life. Probably not that much use but thats all i can think of @ the mo, it should be more aswell considering I have my physics exam tomorow :p. EDIT: LOL, just saw you have 4 more posts to go until you are 1337, congrats in advance. Edited June 21, 2005 by warning1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted June 21, 2005 Author Share Posted June 21, 2005 Cheers guys (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted June 21, 2005 Author Share Posted June 21, 2005 Anyone know the name of that huge satellite that is continuously listening for messages from outer space? edit: thanks warning1 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted June 21, 2005 Author Share Posted June 21, 2005 sorry to bump but I need this info ASAP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 sorry to bump but I need this info ASAP 586096583[/snapback] Why bump? All the information you need can be found on the website for the SETI Insitute, as mention several posts above... In fact, there's FAR more information on there than you will ever use for your paper :) SETI is a fascinating subject... Maybe they should apply it to the Internet too (just drop the extra-terrestrial bit)! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Arecibo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarik Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 I dont think there is a huge satelite listening for alien traffic, but the Arecibo Antenna is about as big as antenna's come, and has been listening for 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sukamusiru Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Solar Sail Spacecraft Set for Launch Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Didn't we send probes into space with gold disks of data or something? What about Mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Mars currently has two rovers on it named Oppurtunity and Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revvo Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 And the goal of those rovers has nothing to do with A.I. They still aren't sure if there was water on mars. Some terrains seem like there used to be water due to erosion, or at least thats what we think. seti.org should provide you more than enough information. You could talk about how people around the world contribute via Seti@home or how radiowaves from space are read/processed at Seti for further analysis or whatever man... It's a huge topic and they got loads of info. Heck, when I got somethnig to talk about that I'm not too aware of, I go to Wikipedia Check out the articles they got on SETI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted June 22, 2005 Author Share Posted June 22, 2005 Thanks for your help everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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