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The wow factor.

The article focuses on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute's (SETI) use of citizen science to look for radio signals from intelligent aliens. It states on February 29, 2012, SETI started a citizen-science project where volunteers would listen for distinctive radio-frequency emissi...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 402; no. 8775; p. 92
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/10/2012
Materias:
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
Volunteers
Citizen science
Extraterrestrial beings
Radio telescopes
Pattern perception
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Sumario:The article focuses on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute's (SETI) use of citizen science to look for radio signals from intelligent aliens. It states on February 29, 2012, SETI started a citizen-science project where volunteers would listen for distinctive radio-frequency emissions detected by the Allen Telescope Array of radio-telescopes. It comments on how human pattern recognition skills are used in several SETI projects and mentions that this project uses real-time data.