Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers. It was a big moment in a century-long concerted search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far, alien life hasn't been found.
Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers. It was a big moment in a century-long concerted search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
So far, alien life hasn't been found. But for scientists like astronomer, that doesn't mean the hunt is worthless. It doesn't mean we should give up. No, according to Davenport, the search is only gettingexciting as new technology opens up a whole new landscape of possibilities. So, today, we're revisiting our episode on the evolving hunt for alien life.! Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at So far, alien life hasn't been found. But for scientists like astronomer, that doesn't mean the hunt is worthless. It doesn't mean we should give up. No, according to Davenport, the search is only gettingexciting as new technology opens up a whole new landscape of possibilities. So, today, we're revisiting our episode on the evolving hunt for alien life.! Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ atThe full name of the massive main telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the Simonyi Survey Telescope. Also, an earlier version of the web summary of this episode misstated James Davenport's first name as Janes.
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