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It’s the perfect place to listen for transmissions from space. The mountains surrounding it block interference from human sources, which there aren’t many of out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are constantly searching the skies in order to find evidence of other life in the universe,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a staff astronomer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">the SETI Institute\u003c/a>. “This is actually the only site in the world which is dedicated 24/7 to do this research.”\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Vishal Gajjar, staff astronomer, SETI Institute\"]‘If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that.’[/pullquote]Forty-two giant white radio \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata-technical-overview\">telescopes\u003c/a> are positioned across a field. Each one is the size of a three-story building. They’re not like the cylindrical telescopes often used for stargazing. These look more like giant satellite dishes. They rotate together to face new sources in the sky. And when they do, they look almost like meerkats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An machine that resembles a Christmas tree encased in glass in a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a log periodic antenna like this one inside each telescope. It converts radio waves into electrical signals. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hidden inside the telescopes are specialized antennas that look like golden Christmas trees. Technically, they’re called log periodic antennas, which work to convert radio waves into electrical signals. Each of their golden branches is the length of the wavelength it is designed to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to communicate across large interstellar distances, radio waves are the best possible way to do that,” Gajjar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radio waves have longer wavelengths than visible light, so they don’t get absorbed as easily and can travel farther through space. They’re also observable both day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_992707,science_1983602\" label=\"Related Stories\"]For now, the Allen Telescope Array is all about listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not broadcasting,” Gajjar said. “We are a very new kid in this big jungle. So we shouldn’t start shouting; we should first listen to what’s out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The input gathered by the telescopes runs underground through optical cables to a main lab, where it is processed and displayed on screens. Scientists monitor the display for the appearance of a streak running through it, indicating an intense radio signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they have a temperature, all objects in the universe emit radio waves at some level. Stars emit them, and so do humans. But they’re usually pretty weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969859\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large telescopic machine in a field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decommissioned telescope at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological sources emit stronger signals. And that’s what Gajjar and his colleagues look for because it could indicate an extraterrestrial life form that’s intelligent enough to build machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can detect it, we assume it would be an intentional communication,” said Grayce Brown, an associate researcher and observer at the Allen Telescope Array.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, when I first heard of it, I was like, ‘Aliens? What? There’s no way we’re doing real science on that,’” Brown said. “But people are seriously looking into it. And it blows my mind just how forward-thinking we can be and how plausible actually some of this stuff is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.space.com/24903-kepler-space-telescope.html\">scientists observed thousands of new planets\u003c/a>, which has ramped up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost every star you see at night has some planet around it,” Gajjar said. “And half of them have Earth-like planets within the habitable zone. So we are definitely not likely to be alone. There must be other life out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have yet to find a clear signal of extraterrestrial intelligence, but Gajjar hopes they do within his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day,” he said, “these telescopes might be contributing to the biggest discovery humanity has ever made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata\">\u003cem>The Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Allen Telescope Array, located outside Redding, is the only site in the world entirely devoted to the continuous pursuit of listening for extraterrestrial life.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1702666436,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":704},"headData":{"title":"This California Facility Is Fully Devoted to the Search for Alien Life | KQED","description":"The Allen Telescope Array, located outside Redding, is the only site in the world entirely devoted to the continuous pursuit of listening for extraterrestrial life.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This California Facility Is Fully Devoted to the Search for Alien Life","datePublished":"2023-12-15T18:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T18:53:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/08d5947a-e05b-4d62-8330-b0d90133f768/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Katherine Monahan","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969801/this-california-facility-is-fully-devoted-to-the-search-for-alien-life","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An hour-and-a-half east of Redding, out past the cow pastures, is the tiny town of Hat Creek — population 266. It’s the perfect place to listen for transmissions from space. 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Each one is the size of a three-story building. They’re not like the cylindrical telescopes often used for stargazing. These look more like giant satellite dishes. They rotate together to face new sources in the sky. And when they do, they look almost like meerkats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An machine that resembles a Christmas tree encased in glass in a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1921-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a log periodic antenna like this one inside each telescope. 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They’re also observable both day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_992707,science_1983602","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For now, the Allen Telescope Array is all about listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not broadcasting,” Gajjar said. “We are a very new kid in this big jungle. So we shouldn’t start shouting; we should first listen to what’s out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The input gathered by the telescopes runs underground through optical cables to a main lab, where it is processed and displayed on screens. Scientists monitor the display for the appearance of a streak running through it, indicating an intense radio signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they have a temperature, all objects in the universe emit radio waves at some level. Stars emit them, and so do humans. But they’re usually pretty weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969859\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large telescopic machine in a field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/IMG_1940-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decommissioned telescope at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological sources emit stronger signals. And that’s what Gajjar and his colleagues look for because it could indicate an extraterrestrial life form that’s intelligent enough to build machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can detect it, we assume it would be an intentional communication,” said Grayce Brown, an associate researcher and observer at the Allen Telescope Array.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, when I first heard of it, I was like, ‘Aliens? What? There’s no way we’re doing real science on that,’” Brown said. “But people are seriously looking into it. And it blows my mind just how forward-thinking we can be and how plausible actually some of this stuff is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.space.com/24903-kepler-space-telescope.html\">scientists observed thousands of new planets\u003c/a>, which has ramped up the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost every star you see at night has some planet around it,” Gajjar said. “And half of them have Earth-like planets within the habitable zone. So we are definitely not likely to be alone. There must be other life out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have yet to find a clear signal of extraterrestrial intelligence, but Gajjar hopes they do within his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day,” he said, “these telescopes might be contributing to the biggest discovery humanity has ever made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/ata\">\u003cem>The Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969801/this-california-facility-is-fully-devoted-to-the-search-for-alien-life","authors":["byline_news_11969801"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_29555","news_1312","news_33643","news_27626","news_3187","news_1299","news_17597","news_33645"],"featImg":"news_11969860","label":"news_26731"},"science_1857795":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1857795","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1857795","score":null,"sort":[1500483014000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feds-reluctant-to-fund-et-search-says-contact-scientist-in-new-book","title":"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says 'Contact' Scientist in New Book","publishDate":1500483014,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says ‘Contact’ Scientist in New Book | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley scientist Jill Tarter was a key figure in launching the legendary program known as SETI. Her determination inspired Jodie Foster’s character in the 1997 film, \u003c/em>Contact\u003cem>. In the first biography of her, Tarter recalls that SETI was no easy sell in Congress, and almost didn’t get off the ground.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Excerpted from \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Making-Contact-Tarter-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence/dp/1681774410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500344586&sr=1-1&keywords=making+contact\">Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence\u003c/a>\u003cem> by Sarah Scoles, published by Pegasus Books. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. All other rights reserved. © Sarah Scoles.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n Columbus Day Eve, 1992, Jill Tarter paced the \u003ca href=\"http://www.naic.edu/\">Arecibo Observatory\u003c/a> control room, making sure every winding blue cable was in place, every signal pathway was sound, and every cryogenic dewar did its job. She looked out the panoramic window into the ancient sinkhole below. The giant radio dish—1,000 feet across—filled the space perfectly. Engineers had picked the telescope’s location by spreading out a topographic map of Puerto Rico and sliding a quarter around to see which valley could hold it. The quarter nestled precisely within a sinkhole 10 miles from the town of Arecibo. Three concrete pillars, which summer interns (and Tarter) occasionally climb to impress each other, rise from the edges of the basin, which the dish fills almost completely. Steel cables as thick as your forearm reach from the pillars toward the middle of the dish (although 500 feet above it). They hold aloft the radio-wave detectors and the electronics that make this huge contraption more than just a big bowl of chicken wire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1861396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1950px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1861396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo.jpeg\" alt=\"The 1,000-foot-diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.\" width=\"1950\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo.jpeg 1950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-160x127.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-800x634.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-768x608.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1020x808.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1920x1521.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1180x935.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-960x761.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-240x190.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-375x297.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-520x412.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1,000-foot-diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. \u003ccite>(NAIC/NSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Columbus Day Eve sun began to set, and the sky streaked the colors of an airbrushed ’80s T-shirt. Maybe somewhere else, on some other planet, some other sky was streaked the same colors. Maybe someone was there to watch. These someones wouldn’t know what the ’80s or T-shirts were, but they would know starsets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter turned from the window and prepared to test the equipment with Backus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ready?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She nodded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed the telescope toward Pioneer 10, testing just like always. It showed up, a slash on the screen, just like always. Then, they turned toward a few stars—more tests. The computers they had built talked back to them, delivering good and unexpected news: they had found an interesting signal, interesting enough to “send a shiver of excitement through everyone in the control room,” Backus told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Then it struck me,” Backus continued. “Maybe what we were seeing on the screen is exactly what we are looking for. Sometime in the next couple of weeks we might do it for real. Who knows?” The signal turned out to be from a physical, not a biological, source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter stayed in the control room until 3 a.m. When she walked back to her two-room hut, with its floral-upholstered couch and bamboo table, the chirping of the jungle frogs was deafening. But the natural noise was a welcome change, taking her mind for a moment off the nervous hum of electronics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later Tarter awoke and got dressed for the press. It was the day Her Majesty’s Royal SETI began. She prepared to keep the \u003cem>Cyclops Report\u003c/em>’s promise. Outside the control room, where coder Jane Jordan’s software prepared to search for alien signals, a crowd gathered, including Shana and her brand-new husband, who also took their honeymoon photos on the telescope’s catwalk during the same trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You’re going to roll an awful lot of rocks up an awful lot of hills, and they’re all going to come tumbling down. That’s just the price of trying to do something new.’\u003ccite>Barney Oliver, SETI pioneer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Billingham stepped before the crowd to give an opening speech. He had spent even longer than Tarter waiting for this moment. “This is the beginning of the next age of discovery,” he said. “We sail into the future, just as Columbus did on this day five hundred years ago. We accept the challenge of searching for a new world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience, including the scientists who had worked for more than a decade to make sure someone like Billingham could make a speech something like this, smiled taut smiles and looked out toward the radio dish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to do this,” Barney Oliver had long ago told Tarter, setting a gold statue of Sisyphus and his boulder on her desk, “you’re going to need this. Because you’re going to roll an awful lot of rocks up an awful lot of hills, and they’re all going to come tumbling down. And you’re going to have to do it again. That’s just the price of trying to do something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter thought maybe the boulder had finally crested—today, Columbus Day, 1992. She pressed the buttons that told the telescope to start observing. “We begin the search,” she declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, Sam Gulkis did the same at the Goldstone telescope in California, starting the survey portion of the search. The Arecibo Radio Telescope pointed at the star GL615.1A, 63 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. GL615.1A is like our sun but smaller and cooler. \u003cem>God, this is a really amazing day for humans\u003c/em>, Tarter thought. \u003cem>Here we are launching this exploration simply because we’re curious. That’s a big milestone for humanity. We’re doing this\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporter covering the event waxed philosophical, too, about the telescope itself: “There was speculation as to what future archeologists might surmise if they happened on the ruins of these stone pillars, aluminum panels and huge steel cables and girders. Here a society with scientist-priests communicated with their gods in the heavens? Some Columbuses sought the cosmic Indies, never found? Or this was the place where humans listened in the jungle stillness and for the first time heard that they are not alone in the universe?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1858494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Tarter was the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in the 1997 film, Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Tarter was the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the 1997 film, Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan. \u003ccite>(Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senator Richard Bryan, perhaps via this very \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> piece (newspapers were always causing trouble for SETI), caught wind of the celebration. He had wanted SETI gone, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">here SETI was\u003c/a>, starting up in earnest. At a hearing for fiscal year 1994, Bryan’s words sent a shiver through Tarter when she watched on C-SPAN: “Mr. Goldin,” Bryan said to Daniel Goldin, the head of NASA, “something in your budget doesn’t pass the smell test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking about SETI,” Tarter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldin says he was caught off-guard by the congressional opposition, in general, to SETI. As a new administrator, he knew the research program existed, but he didn’t know much about its specifics. He says he wished someone had warned him about what he was walking into. “I was so frustrated that I had only a layman’s understanding of the program,” he says, “and I’m a detail person, and I always do homework before I do anything, and especially before hearings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that hearing, Tarter leaned toward the television, like it was a black box that could tell her future. Having knocked on as many White-House doors as she could, all she could do was wait for the final hearing, where people she didn’t know would decide whether her career lived or died. “It’s hard to elevate the consciousness of Congressmen from mundane to heavenly matters,” Barney Oliver once said in an interview with the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1858643 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2.jpg\" alt=\"Tarter (background) gets comfortable in the control room at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1976.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1920x1372.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarter (background) gets comfortable in the control room at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1976. \u003ccite>(Jill Tarter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1993, Congress met to talk about science and technology projects. To build solid rocket motors or to not build solid rocket motors? To build the superconducting supercollider (yes, a real thing) or to not build the superconducting supercollider? They had been going at it for days, slashing this and cutting that. Tarter watched C-SPAN for hours, thinking how much more boring it must be in that room. She switched off the television and went to pack her suitcase. She was scheduled to give a talk in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the Wernher Von Braun Lecture Series at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The whole night—meant for the public—was about exploration and the human spirit. Tarter would speak about SETI, of course, and folk musician John Denver would serenade the audience with world-uniting songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stood backstage as Denver performed “White Horses,” swaying and watching the crowd do the same. They were all there together, in this moment in the dark in Huntsville, thinking about the long future, the big space, and their place in it all. It was kind of beautiful. But at the same time, Congress sat behind long desks discussing whether to interrupt that line of questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all overwhelming,” she says in 2015, looking toward the wall of her Berkeley home, where the plaque commemorating the Von Braun lecture hangs. “I was overwhelmed by the star power on the stage and the DC shenanigans threatening to terminate my world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before she was to succeed Denver on the stage, a staffer whispered in her ear: Senator Bryan had put in an eleventh-hour proposal to cancel the SETI program. Congress would vote in the morning. She calls Denver’s performance a Rocky Mountain high. This whispered news, though, she calls a Death Valley low. She debated whether she should give her lecture as planned or instead deliver an impassioned plea to bombard senators with letters of SETI support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wouldn’t have done any good,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter usually accepts the boulders and the grades up which they must be shoved. But she for once accepted that another person’s will could defeat her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1858759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie.jpeg\" alt='Tarter and Foster on the film set. The inscription from Foster reads, in part: \"Thank you for all of your inspiration on Contact.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-160x131.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-800x655.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-768x629.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1020x835.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1920x1572.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1180x966.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-960x786.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-240x196.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-375x307.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-520x426.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarter and Foster on the film set. The inscription from Foster reads, in part: “Thank you for all of your inspiration on Contact.” \u003ccite>(Jill Tarter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next morning, before the debate began, she left on a jet plane back to California. The congressional conversation took place while she was in the air. Even cruising altitude was not quite high enough to give perspective. While she looked down at the clouds and flipped through\u003cem> Skymall\u003c/em>, her father’s voice came into her head. “I don’t see why you couldn’t do anything, if you work hard enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe he had been wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ran to a phone as soon as the plane landed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we okay?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” a colleague said. “It’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan had won. His press release, typed onto stationery mocked up to look like the SETI Institute’s letterhead, was headlined “Senator Bryan Ends the Great Martian Chase. “As of today, millions have been spent and we have yet to bag a single little green fellow,” the release continued. “Not a single Martian has said ‘take me to your leader,’ and not a single flying saucer has applied for FAA approval. It may be funny to some, except the punchline includes a $12.3 million price tag to the taxpayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t leave me alone with any sharp objects,” Tarter said to her husband, Jack Welch, when she arrived home. Just a year earlier, at the High Resolution Microwave Survey launch, she had been so hopeful, had thought such grand thoughts, had compared her team to Columbus, for God’s sake. And now the dream was dead. She couldn’t even push a boulder if she’d tried. All the boulders had, in fact, been summarily carted away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the world, though, she showed a stoic face. “This is an enormous setback,” she said to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “NASA has spent 20 years and more than $50 million to develop sophisticated digital receivers capable of listening to tens of millions of frequencies at a time. Now, with the observations getting under way, the project is killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barney Oliver was less circumspect when he wrote for the science newsletter \u003cem>Signals\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Millions of transistors, memory cells, and other high-tech products of our ingenuity have been woven into a brain whose sole aim in life is to detect and verify the origin of tiny signals—less energetic than the smallest atomic particle— that have crossed the light years we cannot. Such signals will tell us that we are not alone, that the astonishing process that has produced us out of the fiery furnace of the Big Bang has also occurred elsewhere. Lo, from that single fact, all our philosophy would be enriched. To save the American Taxpayer about eight cents per year, we are to be denied the chance to explore the universe and the sentient life forms that fill it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the kind of oratory Tarter would later give. But that October she could only mope and avoid her knife block. The next day, though, a call came from the targeted-search project scientist John Dreher, who had joined the team in 1989 after leaving a physics position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he said, “if what we were doing yesterday made sense, it’s still going to make sense on Monday. We just have to find some other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ed. Note: despite occasional setbacks, and some continued opposition, SETI is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/node/647\">alive and well \u003c/a>in 2017, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/laser-seti-first-ever-all-sky-all-the-time-search-science#/\">currently raising funds \u003c/a>for a new optical approach to the search.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Today we take programs like SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) for granted. But getting it started and keeping it going were no slam dunks.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928514,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":2386},"headData":{"title":"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says 'Contact' Scientist in New Book | KQED","description":"Today we take programs like SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) for granted. But getting it started and keeping it going were no slam dunks.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says 'Contact' Scientist in New Book","datePublished":"2017-07-19T16:50:14.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:15:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/1857795/feds-reluctant-to-fund-et-search-says-contact-scientist-in-new-book","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley scientist Jill Tarter was a key figure in launching the legendary program known as SETI. Her determination inspired Jodie Foster’s character in the 1997 film, \u003c/em>Contact\u003cem>. In the first biography of her, Tarter recalls that SETI was no easy sell in Congress, and almost didn’t get off the ground.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Excerpted from \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Making-Contact-Tarter-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence/dp/1681774410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500344586&sr=1-1&keywords=making+contact\">Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence\u003c/a>\u003cem> by Sarah Scoles, published by Pegasus Books. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. All other rights reserved. © Sarah Scoles.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n Columbus Day Eve, 1992, Jill Tarter paced the \u003ca href=\"http://www.naic.edu/\">Arecibo Observatory\u003c/a> control room, making sure every winding blue cable was in place, every signal pathway was sound, and every cryogenic dewar did its job. She looked out the panoramic window into the ancient sinkhole below. The giant radio dish—1,000 feet across—filled the space perfectly. Engineers had picked the telescope’s location by spreading out a topographic map of Puerto Rico and sliding a quarter around to see which valley could hold it. The quarter nestled precisely within a sinkhole 10 miles from the town of Arecibo. Three concrete pillars, which summer interns (and Tarter) occasionally climb to impress each other, rise from the edges of the basin, which the dish fills almost completely. Steel cables as thick as your forearm reach from the pillars toward the middle of the dish (although 500 feet above it). They hold aloft the radio-wave detectors and the electronics that make this huge contraption more than just a big bowl of chicken wire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1861396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1950px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1861396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo.jpeg\" alt=\"The 1,000-foot-diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.\" width=\"1950\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo.jpeg 1950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-160x127.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-800x634.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-768x608.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1020x808.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1920x1521.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-1180x935.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-960x761.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-240x190.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-375x297.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/4F-Arecibo-520x412.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1,000-foot-diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. \u003ccite>(NAIC/NSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Columbus Day Eve sun began to set, and the sky streaked the colors of an airbrushed ’80s T-shirt. Maybe somewhere else, on some other planet, some other sky was streaked the same colors. Maybe someone was there to watch. These someones wouldn’t know what the ’80s or T-shirts were, but they would know starsets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter turned from the window and prepared to test the equipment with Backus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ready?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She nodded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed the telescope toward Pioneer 10, testing just like always. It showed up, a slash on the screen, just like always. Then, they turned toward a few stars—more tests. The computers they had built talked back to them, delivering good and unexpected news: they had found an interesting signal, interesting enough to “send a shiver of excitement through everyone in the control room,” Backus told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Then it struck me,” Backus continued. “Maybe what we were seeing on the screen is exactly what we are looking for. Sometime in the next couple of weeks we might do it for real. Who knows?” The signal turned out to be from a physical, not a biological, source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter stayed in the control room until 3 a.m. When she walked back to her two-room hut, with its floral-upholstered couch and bamboo table, the chirping of the jungle frogs was deafening. But the natural noise was a welcome change, taking her mind for a moment off the nervous hum of electronics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later Tarter awoke and got dressed for the press. It was the day Her Majesty’s Royal SETI began. She prepared to keep the \u003cem>Cyclops Report\u003c/em>’s promise. Outside the control room, where coder Jane Jordan’s software prepared to search for alien signals, a crowd gathered, including Shana and her brand-new husband, who also took their honeymoon photos on the telescope’s catwalk during the same trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You’re going to roll an awful lot of rocks up an awful lot of hills, and they’re all going to come tumbling down. That’s just the price of trying to do something new.’\u003ccite>Barney Oliver, SETI pioneer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Billingham stepped before the crowd to give an opening speech. He had spent even longer than Tarter waiting for this moment. “This is the beginning of the next age of discovery,” he said. “We sail into the future, just as Columbus did on this day five hundred years ago. We accept the challenge of searching for a new world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience, including the scientists who had worked for more than a decade to make sure someone like Billingham could make a speech something like this, smiled taut smiles and looked out toward the radio dish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to do this,” Barney Oliver had long ago told Tarter, setting a gold statue of Sisyphus and his boulder on her desk, “you’re going to need this. Because you’re going to roll an awful lot of rocks up an awful lot of hills, and they’re all going to come tumbling down. And you’re going to have to do it again. That’s just the price of trying to do something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter thought maybe the boulder had finally crested—today, Columbus Day, 1992. She pressed the buttons that told the telescope to start observing. “We begin the search,” she declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, Sam Gulkis did the same at the Goldstone telescope in California, starting the survey portion of the search. The Arecibo Radio Telescope pointed at the star GL615.1A, 63 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. GL615.1A is like our sun but smaller and cooler. \u003cem>God, this is a really amazing day for humans\u003c/em>, Tarter thought. \u003cem>Here we are launching this exploration simply because we’re curious. That’s a big milestone for humanity. We’re doing this\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporter covering the event waxed philosophical, too, about the telescope itself: “There was speculation as to what future archeologists might surmise if they happened on the ruins of these stone pillars, aluminum panels and huge steel cables and girders. Here a society with scientist-priests communicated with their gods in the heavens? Some Columbuses sought the cosmic Indies, never found? Or this was the place where humans listened in the jungle stillness and for the first time heard that they are not alone in the universe?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1858494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Tarter was the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in the 1997 film, Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Contact_onesheet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Tarter was the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the 1997 film, Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan. \u003ccite>(Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senator Richard Bryan, perhaps via this very \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> piece (newspapers were always causing trouble for SETI), caught wind of the celebration. He had wanted SETI gone, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seti.org/\">here SETI was\u003c/a>, starting up in earnest. At a hearing for fiscal year 1994, Bryan’s words sent a shiver through Tarter when she watched on C-SPAN: “Mr. Goldin,” Bryan said to Daniel Goldin, the head of NASA, “something in your budget doesn’t pass the smell test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking about SETI,” Tarter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldin says he was caught off-guard by the congressional opposition, in general, to SETI. As a new administrator, he knew the research program existed, but he didn’t know much about its specifics. He says he wished someone had warned him about what he was walking into. “I was so frustrated that I had only a layman’s understanding of the program,” he says, “and I’m a detail person, and I always do homework before I do anything, and especially before hearings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that hearing, Tarter leaned toward the television, like it was a black box that could tell her future. Having knocked on as many White-House doors as she could, all she could do was wait for the final hearing, where people she didn’t know would decide whether her career lived or died. “It’s hard to elevate the consciousness of Congressmen from mundane to heavenly matters,” Barney Oliver once said in an interview with the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1858643 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2.jpg\" alt=\"Tarter (background) gets comfortable in the control room at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1976.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1920x1372.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/2-300-Jill_Jeff_2-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarter (background) gets comfortable in the control room at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1976. \u003ccite>(Jill Tarter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1993, Congress met to talk about science and technology projects. To build solid rocket motors or to not build solid rocket motors? To build the superconducting supercollider (yes, a real thing) or to not build the superconducting supercollider? They had been going at it for days, slashing this and cutting that. Tarter watched C-SPAN for hours, thinking how much more boring it must be in that room. She switched off the television and went to pack her suitcase. She was scheduled to give a talk in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the Wernher Von Braun Lecture Series at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The whole night—meant for the public—was about exploration and the human spirit. Tarter would speak about SETI, of course, and folk musician John Denver would serenade the audience with world-uniting songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stood backstage as Denver performed “White Horses,” swaying and watching the crowd do the same. They were all there together, in this moment in the dark in Huntsville, thinking about the long future, the big space, and their place in it all. It was kind of beautiful. But at the same time, Congress sat behind long desks discussing whether to interrupt that line of questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all overwhelming,” she says in 2015, looking toward the wall of her Berkeley home, where the plaque commemorating the Von Braun lecture hangs. “I was overwhelmed by the star power on the stage and the DC shenanigans threatening to terminate my world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before she was to succeed Denver on the stage, a staffer whispered in her ear: Senator Bryan had put in an eleventh-hour proposal to cancel the SETI program. Congress would vote in the morning. She calls Denver’s performance a Rocky Mountain high. This whispered news, though, she calls a Death Valley low. She debated whether she should give her lecture as planned or instead deliver an impassioned plea to bombard senators with letters of SETI support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wouldn’t have done any good,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarter usually accepts the boulders and the grades up which they must be shoved. But she for once accepted that another person’s will could defeat her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1858759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie.jpeg\" alt='Tarter and Foster on the film set. The inscription from Foster reads, in part: \"Thank you for all of your inspiration on Contact.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-160x131.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-800x655.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-768x629.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1020x835.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1920x1572.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-1180x966.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-960x786.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-240x196.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-375x307.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/15-JillJodie-520x426.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarter and Foster on the film set. The inscription from Foster reads, in part: “Thank you for all of your inspiration on Contact.” \u003ccite>(Jill Tarter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next morning, before the debate began, she left on a jet plane back to California. The congressional conversation took place while she was in the air. Even cruising altitude was not quite high enough to give perspective. While she looked down at the clouds and flipped through\u003cem> Skymall\u003c/em>, her father’s voice came into her head. “I don’t see why you couldn’t do anything, if you work hard enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe he had been wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ran to a phone as soon as the plane landed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we okay?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” a colleague said. “It’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan had won. His press release, typed onto stationery mocked up to look like the SETI Institute’s letterhead, was headlined “Senator Bryan Ends the Great Martian Chase. “As of today, millions have been spent and we have yet to bag a single little green fellow,” the release continued. “Not a single Martian has said ‘take me to your leader,’ and not a single flying saucer has applied for FAA approval. It may be funny to some, except the punchline includes a $12.3 million price tag to the taxpayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t leave me alone with any sharp objects,” Tarter said to her husband, Jack Welch, when she arrived home. Just a year earlier, at the High Resolution Microwave Survey launch, she had been so hopeful, had thought such grand thoughts, had compared her team to Columbus, for God’s sake. And now the dream was dead. She couldn’t even push a boulder if she’d tried. All the boulders had, in fact, been summarily carted away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the world, though, she showed a stoic face. “This is an enormous setback,” she said to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “NASA has spent 20 years and more than $50 million to develop sophisticated digital receivers capable of listening to tens of millions of frequencies at a time. Now, with the observations getting under way, the project is killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barney Oliver was less circumspect when he wrote for the science newsletter \u003cem>Signals\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Millions of transistors, memory cells, and other high-tech products of our ingenuity have been woven into a brain whose sole aim in life is to detect and verify the origin of tiny signals—less energetic than the smallest atomic particle— that have crossed the light years we cannot. Such signals will tell us that we are not alone, that the astonishing process that has produced us out of the fiery furnace of the Big Bang has also occurred elsewhere. Lo, from that single fact, all our philosophy would be enriched. To save the American Taxpayer about eight cents per year, we are to be denied the chance to explore the universe and the sentient life forms that fill it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the kind of oratory Tarter would later give. But that October she could only mope and avoid her knife block. The next day, though, a call came from the targeted-search project scientist John Dreher, who had joined the team in 1989 after leaving a physics position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he said, “if what we were doing yesterday made sense, it’s still going to make sense on Monday. We just have to find some other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ed. Note: despite occasional setbacks, and some continued opposition, SETI is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/node/647\">alive and well \u003c/a>in 2017, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/laser-seti-first-ever-all-sky-all-the-time-search-science#/\">currently raising funds \u003c/a>for a new optical approach to the search.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1857795/feds-reluctant-to-fund-et-search-says-contact-scientist-in-new-book","authors":["6387"],"categories":["science_28","science_40"],"tags":["science_3370","science_5175","science_922"],"featImg":"science_1861607","label":"science"},"science_1109784":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1109784","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1109784","score":null,"sort":[1477524251000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"aliens-why-uc-scientists-arent-giving-up-on-strange-star","title":"Aliens? Why UC Scientists Aren’t Giving Up On Strange Star","publishDate":1477524251,"format":"video","headTitle":"Aliens? Why UC Scientists Aren’t Giving Up On Strange Star | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>For the past year many of the world’s most advanced telescopes have been pointed at \u003ca href=\"http://www.space.com/34303-alien-megastructure-star-strange-dimming-mystery.html\">Tabby’s Star\u003c/a> in hopes of finding extraterrestrial life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been looked at with Hubble, it’s been looked at with Keck, it’s been looked at in the infrared and radio and high energy, and every possible thing you can imagine, including a whole range of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiments,” says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. “Nothing has been found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a team of scientists aren’t giving up. Siemion is headed to \u003ca href=\"http://greenbankobservatory.org/\">Green Bank Observatory\u003c/a> in rural West Virginia, along with Jason Wright, a UC Berkeley visiting astronomer, and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabetha_S._Boyajian\">Tabetha Boyajian\u003c/a>, the assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University for whom the star is named. There they will aim yet another powerful instrument at the star for eight hours tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Green Bank Telescope is the largest fully steerable radio telescope on the planet, and it’s the largest, most sensitive telescope that’s capable of looking at Tabby’s Star given its position in the sky,” says Siemion. “The implications of detecting an advanced technology on another world is — in my opinion — the most amazing discovery that could be made in all of human inquiry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How does a radio telescope work?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/3i3pMn4NnKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intriguing, Aliens or Not\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the team says detecting alien life is a long shot, they can’t resist the urge to study the star’s unique behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually when a planet passes in front of a star it blocks only 1 or 2 percent of a star’s light. Tabby’s Star dims irregularly for days at a time, by as much as 22 percent. Some speculate that a Dyson structure, a massive orbiting array of solar collectors, could be blocking the light. The physicist Freeman Dyson once proposed that an alien civilization would naturally erect such a structure to power itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are the Chances?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s very likely – a one-in-a-billion chance or something like that – but nevertheless, we’re going to check it out,” says Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at Berkeley SETI. “But I think that ET, if it’s ever discovered, it might be something like that. It’ll be some bizarre thing that somebody finds by accident — that nobody expected — and then we look more carefully and we say, ‘Hey, that’s a civilization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers will observe Tabby for a total of three nights over the next two months. The goal is to collect one petabyte of data through hundreds of millions of radio channels. The team plans to release the observations to the public after they analyze the data for patterns in the radio emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A video explains why UC scientists believe it's plausible that aliens erected a massive structure around a star.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704929482,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":504},"headData":{"title":"Aliens? 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Why UC Scientists Aren’t Giving Up On Strange Star","datePublished":"2016-10-26T23:24:11.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:31:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/f5e6WniARE8","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1109784/aliens-why-uc-scientists-arent-giving-up-on-strange-star","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the past year many of the world’s most advanced telescopes have been pointed at \u003ca href=\"http://www.space.com/34303-alien-megastructure-star-strange-dimming-mystery.html\">Tabby’s Star\u003c/a> in hopes of finding extraterrestrial life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been looked at with Hubble, it’s been looked at with Keck, it’s been looked at in the infrared and radio and high energy, and every possible thing you can imagine, including a whole range of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiments,” says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. “Nothing has been found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a team of scientists aren’t giving up. Siemion is headed to \u003ca href=\"http://greenbankobservatory.org/\">Green Bank Observatory\u003c/a> in rural West Virginia, along with Jason Wright, a UC Berkeley visiting astronomer, and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabetha_S._Boyajian\">Tabetha Boyajian\u003c/a>, the assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University for whom the star is named. There they will aim yet another powerful instrument at the star for eight hours tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Green Bank Telescope is the largest fully steerable radio telescope on the planet, and it’s the largest, most sensitive telescope that’s capable of looking at Tabby’s Star given its position in the sky,” says Siemion. “The implications of detecting an advanced technology on another world is — in my opinion — the most amazing discovery that could be made in all of human inquiry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How does a radio telescope work?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/3i3pMn4NnKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intriguing, Aliens or Not\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the team says detecting alien life is a long shot, they can’t resist the urge to study the star’s unique behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually when a planet passes in front of a star it blocks only 1 or 2 percent of a star’s light. Tabby’s Star dims irregularly for days at a time, by as much as 22 percent. Some speculate that a Dyson structure, a massive orbiting array of solar collectors, could be blocking the light. The physicist Freeman Dyson once proposed that an alien civilization would naturally erect such a structure to power itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are the Chances?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s very likely – a one-in-a-billion chance or something like that – but nevertheless, we’re going to check it out,” says Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at Berkeley SETI. “But I think that ET, if it’s ever discovered, it might be something like that. It’ll be some bizarre thing that somebody finds by accident — that nobody expected — and then we look more carefully and we say, ‘Hey, that’s a civilization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers will observe Tabby for a total of three nights over the next two months. The goal is to collect one petabyte of data through hundreds of millions of radio channels. The team plans to release the observations to the public after they analyze the data for patterns in the radio emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1109784/aliens-why-uc-scientists-arent-giving-up-on-strange-star","authors":["11229"],"categories":["science_28","science_40","science_86"],"tags":["science_1073","science_190"],"featImg":"science_1110147","label":"science"},"news_11065832":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11065832","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11065832","score":null,"sort":[1472580656000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"scientists-looking-for-alien-life-investigate-interesting-signal-from-space","title":"Scientists Looking for Alien Life Investigate 'Interesting' Signal From Space","publishDate":1472580656,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>They aren't saying it's alien. But they are saying it's \"interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mountain View-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute\u003c/a> — the private organization that looks for signals of extraterrestrial life — has announced that it is investigating reports of an unusual radio signal picked up by Russian astronomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal was detected on a much wider bandwidth than the SETI Institute uses in its searches, and the strength of the received signal was \"weak,\" SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was unusual, both in its design and its \"beam shape,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal \u003cem>might\u003c/em> be coming from a solar system called HD 164595, some 94 light-years away from us, Shostak wrote. It seems to be coming from that direction, at any rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That system has a star similar to ours. There's one known planet circling that star, about the size of Neptune and very close to the star. That planet doesn't seem like a good candidate for hosting life, but other planets might also be in the system, Shostak wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's no guarantee that the signal is, in fact, coming from the system. And even if it is, that doesn't mean it's definitely coming from intelligent life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astronomer Nick Suntzeff \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/seti-has-observed-a-strong-signal-that-may-originate-from-a-sun-like-star/\">told Ars Technica\u003c/a> that there's a \"significant chance\" it could be military — that is, coming from covert satellite communications instead of beaming to us from HD 164595.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are \"natural sources\" that could conceivably cause a wide-band signal like the one detected, Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">told GeekWire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the astronomers who first detected the signal, in May 2015, didn't immediately alert the scientific community and ask for help confirming the signal. That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. But it has never been detected again, leaving scientists with little to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If things are different this time around and one of the arrays finds a repeat of the new signal, that would \"immediately spur\" follow-up research, Shostak writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, it has prompted speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, astronomers are cautioning that this might easily be a false alarm. But if the signal \u003cem>were \u003c/em>sent from alien life in the HD 164595 system, what would that mean? There are two primary options, Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One scenario is that the life-forms sent a powerful signal in all directions — a \"here I am\" sent to the universe in general. To reach us at its current strength, that would mean the planet had access to 100 billion watts of energy, \"hundreds of times more energy than all the sunlight falling on Earth,\" Shostak wrote, indicating a very advanced alien society, with capabilities far beyond ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternately, the message could have been directed at us. That's a lower energy requirement — about equal to \"the total energy consumption of all mankind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that case, they'd have to know we're here. The system is too far away to have picked up any TV or radar from humans on Earth, \"and it's hard to understand why anyone would want to target our solar system,\" Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Russian astronomers detected an unusual radio signal last year. The SETI Institute says it's too soon to say where the signal came from -- but researchers are checking it out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1472593317,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":730},"headData":{"title":"Scientists Looking for Alien Life Investigate 'Interesting' Signal From Space | KQED","description":"Russian astronomers detected an unusual radio signal last year. 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But they are saying it's \"interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mountain View-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute\u003c/a> — the private organization that looks for signals of extraterrestrial life — has announced that it is investigating reports of an unusual radio signal picked up by Russian astronomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal was detected on a much wider bandwidth than the SETI Institute uses in its searches, and the strength of the received signal was \"weak,\" SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was unusual, both in its design and its \"beam shape,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal \u003cem>might\u003c/em> be coming from a solar system called HD 164595, some 94 light-years away from us, Shostak wrote. It seems to be coming from that direction, at any rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That system has a star similar to ours. There's one known planet circling that star, about the size of Neptune and very close to the star. That planet doesn't seem like a good candidate for hosting life, but other planets might also be in the system, Shostak wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's no guarantee that the signal is, in fact, coming from the system. And even if it is, that doesn't mean it's definitely coming from intelligent life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astronomer Nick Suntzeff \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/seti-has-observed-a-strong-signal-that-may-originate-from-a-sun-like-star/\">told Ars Technica\u003c/a> that there's a \"significant chance\" it could be military — that is, coming from covert satellite communications instead of beaming to us from HD 164595.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are \"natural sources\" that could conceivably cause a wide-band signal like the one detected, Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">told GeekWire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the astronomers who first detected the signal, in May 2015, didn't immediately alert the scientific community and ask for help confirming the signal. That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. But it has never been detected again, leaving scientists with little to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If things are different this time around and one of the arrays finds a repeat of the new signal, that would \"immediately spur\" follow-up research, Shostak writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, it has prompted speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, astronomers are cautioning that this might easily be a false alarm. But if the signal \u003cem>were \u003c/em>sent from alien life in the HD 164595 system, what would that mean? There are two primary options, Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One scenario is that the life-forms sent a powerful signal in all directions — a \"here I am\" sent to the universe in general. To reach us at its current strength, that would mean the planet had access to 100 billion watts of energy, \"hundreds of times more energy than all the sunlight falling on Earth,\" Shostak wrote, indicating a very advanced alien society, with capabilities far beyond ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternately, the message could have been directed at us. That's a lower energy requirement — about equal to \"the total energy consumption of all mankind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that case, they'd have to know we're here. The system is too far away to have picked up any TV or radar from humans on Earth, \"and it's hard to understand why anyone would want to target our solar system,\" Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11065832/scientists-looking-for-alien-life-investigate-interesting-signal-from-space","authors":["byline_news_11065832"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356","news_248"],"tags":["news_442","news_1299","news_17286","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11065838","label":"source_news_11065832"},"news_10378717":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10378717","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10378717","score":null,"sort":[1418673872000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"9-stories-you-should-know-about-today-7","title":"9 Stories You Should Know About Today ","publishDate":1418673872,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Artist group claims responsibility for Cal noose effigies\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Berkeleyside)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An anonymous artists’ collective has taken responsibility for the effigies strung up in nooses at UC Berkeley on Saturday. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/effigies-of-lynched-people-hung-on-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Jose cop investigated for threatening tweets\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Inside)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Free speech doesn’t mean that speech is free from consequences. A San Jose police officer is learning that lesson now, as the department investigates threatening comments he made online against people protesting the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/12/15/san-jose-cop-investigated-for-threatening-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earth to ET: Anyone home?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED Science)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Last month at the Institute for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in Mountain View, an international group of scientists, linguists, philosophers and others convened in a workshop to discuss what might be the most challenging conversation in the history of humankind. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/designing-the-inter-stellar-doorbell-or-how-to-talk-to-et/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber builds vast lobbying network\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Washington Post)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Uber’s approach is brash and, so far, highly effective: It launches in local markets regardless of existing laws or regulations. It aims to build a large customer base as quickly as possible. When challenged, Uber rallies its users to pressure government officials, while unleashing its well-connected lobbyists to influence lawmakers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/uber-pressures-regulators-by-mobilizing-riders-and-hiring-vast-lobbying-network/2014/12/13/3f4395c6-7f2a-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Combative Uber exec in nasty legal tangle with landlord\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An Uber executive’s bare-knuckle approach to public relations appears to extend to his dealings with the landlord of his swank Pacific Heights condominium. Court records show that Emil Michael, an Uber senior vice president, filed for a restraining order against his landlord, tech industry attorney John Danforth, in fall 2013, alleging there had been a “repeated pattern” to “harass and intimidate me with the goal of driving me out of my dwelling.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Combative-Uber-exec-gets-in-nasty-legal-tangle-5953449.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber reviews for Charon, boatman of Hades\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(The New Yorker)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"MARILYN P.: Great service, but I’m knocking off a star because the Taxi TV was nothing but holograms of people screaming as they paid their debts to the God of the Underworld.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/uber-reviews-charon\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Will eBay's split with PayPal lead to big layoffs?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>eBay reportedly is considering laying off thousands of employees as it prepares to shed its huge online payments division, PayPal. Citing unnamed \"people familiar with the company's thinking,\" the Wall Street Journal said this week that the layoffs could total at least 3,000 -- about 10 percent of the San Jose online retailing site's workforce -- when it splits next year. \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_27125981/ebays-split-paypal-reportedly-could-mean-thousands-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New technology increases scrutiny of workers inside, outside offices\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Employers are rushing to embrace the Internet of Things, with its array of smart gadgets, to keep watch on their workers. Studies contend that these devices help reduce theft, boost productivity and weed out lazy, incompetent or abusive employees. ... But other studies conclude that such monitoring can be so intrusive it undermines an employee's work and well-being, producing anxiety or even depression. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27132016/hidden-devices-scrutinize-employees\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Emerald Cup proves a big draw\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a sign of the burgeoning marijuana cultivation industry and its mainstream acceptance, an estimated 10,000 people flocked to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds over the weekend to honor the growers behind some of the finest and most powerful strains of pot in Northern California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3252197-181/emerald-cup-proves-a-big\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Aftermath of Cal 'noose incident.' Uber assembles lobbyist army. Designing a doorbell for ET. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418682676,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":557},"headData":{"title":"9 Stories You Should Know About Today | KQED","description":"Aftermath of Cal 'noose incident.' Uber assembles lobbyist army. Designing a doorbell for ET. 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A San Jose police officer is learning that lesson now, as the department investigates threatening comments he made online against people protesting the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/12/15/san-jose-cop-investigated-for-threatening-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earth to ET: Anyone home?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED Science)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Last month at the Institute for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in Mountain View, an international group of scientists, linguists, philosophers and others convened in a workshop to discuss what might be the most challenging conversation in the history of humankind. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/designing-the-inter-stellar-doorbell-or-how-to-talk-to-et/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber builds vast lobbying network\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Washington Post)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Uber’s approach is brash and, so far, highly effective: It launches in local markets regardless of existing laws or regulations. It aims to build a large customer base as quickly as possible. When challenged, Uber rallies its users to pressure government officials, while unleashing its well-connected lobbyists to influence lawmakers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/uber-pressures-regulators-by-mobilizing-riders-and-hiring-vast-lobbying-network/2014/12/13/3f4395c6-7f2a-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Combative Uber exec in nasty legal tangle with landlord\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An Uber executive’s bare-knuckle approach to public relations appears to extend to his dealings with the landlord of his swank Pacific Heights condominium. Court records show that Emil Michael, an Uber senior vice president, filed for a restraining order against his landlord, tech industry attorney John Danforth, in fall 2013, alleging there had been a “repeated pattern” to “harass and intimidate me with the goal of driving me out of my dwelling.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Combative-Uber-exec-gets-in-nasty-legal-tangle-5953449.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber reviews for Charon, boatman of Hades\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(The New Yorker)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"MARILYN P.: Great service, but I’m knocking off a star because the Taxi TV was nothing but holograms of people screaming as they paid their debts to the God of the Underworld.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/uber-reviews-charon\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Will eBay's split with PayPal lead to big layoffs?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>eBay reportedly is considering laying off thousands of employees as it prepares to shed its huge online payments division, PayPal. Citing unnamed \"people familiar with the company's thinking,\" the Wall Street Journal said this week that the layoffs could total at least 3,000 -- about 10 percent of the San Jose online retailing site's workforce -- when it splits next year. \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_27125981/ebays-split-paypal-reportedly-could-mean-thousands-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New technology increases scrutiny of workers inside, outside offices\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Employers are rushing to embrace the Internet of Things, with its array of smart gadgets, to keep watch on their workers. Studies contend that these devices help reduce theft, boost productivity and weed out lazy, incompetent or abusive employees. ... But other studies conclude that such monitoring can be so intrusive it undermines an employee's work and well-being, producing anxiety or even depression. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27132016/hidden-devices-scrutinize-employees\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Emerald Cup proves a big draw\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a sign of the burgeoning marijuana cultivation industry and its mainstream acceptance, an estimated 10,000 people flocked to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds over the weekend to honor the growers behind some of the finest and most powerful strains of pot in Northern California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3252197-181/emerald-cup-proves-a-big\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10378717/9-stories-you-should-know-about-today-7","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_316","news_1299","news_4523"],"featImg":"news_143903","label":"news_6944"},"news_144889":{"type":"posts","id":"news_144889","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"144889","score":null,"sort":[1408145097000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-violent-past-of-a-space-rock-that-fell-to-earth-in-novato","title":"The Violent Past of a Space Rock That Fell to Earth in Novato ","publishDate":1408145097,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/novatometeorite.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-144926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/novatometeorite-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"The fragmentation of the Novato meteorite on Oct. 17, 2012, as depicted in a horizontally mirrored image to show the progression of the event (from left to right). (Robert P. Moreno Jr., Jim Albers and Peter Jenniskens/NASA-SETI)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fragmentation of the Novato meteorite on Oct. 17, 2012, as depicted in a horizontally mirrored image to show the progression of the event (from left to right). (Robert P. Moreno Jr., Jim Albers and Peter Jenniskens/NASA-SETI)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was not a planet killer, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404122409.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the comet or asteroid\u003c/a> that snuffed out the dinosaurs. It didn't \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/shSoeqmxBHs?list=UUtJKflPxasUqeAVYRWQj-XA\" target=\"_blank\">flare with sunlike brilliance or end with a terrifying blast\u003c/a> like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57165\" target=\"_blank\">the meteor that plunged from the heavens\u003c/a> near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, the Novato meteorite, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-streak-a-boom-and-now-meteor-debris-3960502.php\" target=\"_blank\">streaked across Bay Area skies\u003c/a> nearly two years ago, was a more modest object. But a group of 50 researchers from NASA, the SETI Institute and elsewhere say the meteorite has its own epic story to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers have traced a series of violent episodes dating back nearly 4.5 billion years and ending on Oct. 17, 2012, when the meteorite broke up and fell on and around the Marin County suburb that it's now named after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick timeline of those events:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>4.472 billion years ago (give or take 31 million years):\u003c/strong> The Novato's parent body is struck by debris from the catastrophic impact that formed the Earth's moon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>470 million years ago:\u003c/strong> Another large impact smashes the Novato's parent body; it's now part of an asteroid in a field of debris between Mars and Jupiter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>9 million years ago: \u003c/strong>Novato breaks off the asteroid, but could still be part of a larger piece of space rock.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>1 million years ago:\u003c/strong> The rock that will become Novato breaks away from its current parent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>100,000 years ago:\u003c/strong> Novato in yet another collision, chemical studies suggest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oct. 17, 2012, 7:45 P.M. PDT:\u003c/strong> The Novato meteorite, now about 14 inches across and weighing about 176 pounds, hits the Earth's atmosphere at 9 miles per second and breaks up over the North Bay.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The fall of the Novato meteorite was monitored by an astronomical surveillance network, \u003ca href=\"http://cams.seti.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CAMS (Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance)\u003c/a>, which allowed researchers to offer a guess about where the object came down. The initial estimate was somewhere near Martinez. But after the meteorite came down, Novato resident Lisa Webber reported that she had recovered a rock that apparently had fallen on her roof. That turned out to be the first of the meteorite fragments to be recovered (and the reason the object is now called the Novato meteorite).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several weeks, five more fragments, most just an inch or two across, turned up within a few miles of Webber's home -- a process \u003ca href=\"http://cams.seti.org/index-N.html\" target=\"_blank\">recounted on the CAMS website\u003c/a>. That's the evidence that allowed the scientists to piece together what they call the space rock's \"tumultuous journey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-partners-reveal-california-meteorites-rough-and-tumble-journey/index.html#.U-6TlPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\">the group's press release\u003c/a>, by way of NASA:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NASA, Partners Reveal California Meteorite's Rough and Tumble Journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and tumultuous journey through space and Earth's atmosphere. An international consortium of fifty researchers studied the fallen meteorite and published their findings in the August issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our investigation has revealed a long history that dates to when the moon formed from the Earth after a giant impact,\" says Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer and consortium study lead working for the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenniskens captured the meteorite's fall in NASA's Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance and quickly calculated the likely fall area over the city of Novato. Novato residents Lisa Webber and Glenn Rivera then remembered hearing something hit their garage roof that night, found the first meteorite, and made it available for study. Often researchers use the location a meteorite was found to name to the rock; this meteorite now is officially known as \"Novato\" according to the Meteoritical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We determined that the meteorite likely got its black appearance from massive impact shocks causing a collisional resetting event 4.472 billion years ago, roughly 64-126 million years after the formation of the solar system,\" says Qing-zhu Yin, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California (UC), Davis. \"We now suspect that the moon-forming impact may have scattered debris all over the inner solar system and hit the parent body of the Novato meteorite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin and collaborators also measured when the meteorites' parent body broke into fragments during another massive collision, about 470 million years ago. This created a debris field in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter from which Novato-like meteorites, which are known as \"L6 ordinary chondrites,\" now are coming to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists had earlier identified the similarly-aged Gefion asteroid family in the middle of the main asteroid belt as the likely source of Novato-like meteorites. Jenniskens successfully measured the Novato approach orbit and confirmed that Gefion can be the source of these meteorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Novato broke from one of the Gefion family asteroids nine million years ago,\" said Kees Welten, cosmochemist at UC Berkeley. \"But may have been buried in a larger object until about one million years ago,\" added Kunihiko Nishiizumi, cosmochemist also of UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Novato meteoroid was ejected from the asteroid belt, its path periodically brought it back to the asteroid belt. Scientists at Ames measured the meteorites' thermoluminescence – the light re-emitted when heating of the material and releasing the stored energy of past electromagnetic and ionizing radiation exposure – to determine that Novato may have had another collision less than 100,000 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can tell the rock was heated, but the cause of the heating is unclear,\" said Derek Sears, a meteoriticist working for the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Sonoma, California, at Ames. \"It seems that Novato was hit again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Novato meteoroid finally hit Earth's atmosphere, scientists approximate it measured 14 inches (35 centimeters) and weighed 176 pounds (80 kilograms). Robert P. Moreno, Jr., photographed in great detail the meteoroid's final breakup in Earth's atmosphere from Santa Rosa, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These photographs show that this meteorite – now one of the best studied meteorites of its kind – broke in spurts, each time creating a flash of light as it entered Earth's atmosphere,\" said Jenniskens. \"In all, six surviving fragments were recovered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were surprised to find that all these impacts did not completely destroy the organic compounds in this meteorite. Qinghao Wu and Richard Zare of Stanford University in California measured a rich array of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds - complex, carbon-rich molecules that are both widespread and abundant throughout the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Glavin at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, led a team to search the Novato meteorites for amino acids – molecules present in and essential for life on Earth – and detected some unusual non-protein amino acids that are now very rare on Earth but indigenous to the Novato meteorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The quick recovery of the Novato meteorites made these studies possible,\" says Jenniskens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research was supported by the NASA Near Earth Object Observation, Planetary Astronomy and Cosmochemistry programs, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Researchers reveal the dramatic history of humble-looking pebbles that rained down on Marin County.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1408147522,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1230},"headData":{"title":"The Violent Past of a Space Rock That Fell to Earth in Novato | KQED","description":"Researchers reveal the dramatic history of humble-looking pebbles that rained down on Marin County.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Violent Past of a Space Rock That Fell to Earth in Novato ","datePublished":"2014-08-15T23:24:57.000Z","dateModified":"2014-08-16T00:05:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"144889 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=144889","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/15/the-violent-past-of-a-space-rock-that-fell-to-earth-in-novato/","disqusTitle":"The Violent Past of a Space Rock That Fell to Earth in Novato ","customPermalink":"2014/08/15/novato-meteorite-nasa-seti/","path":"/news/144889/the-violent-past-of-a-space-rock-that-fell-to-earth-in-novato","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/novatometeorite.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-144926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/novatometeorite-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"The fragmentation of the Novato meteorite on Oct. 17, 2012, as depicted in a horizontally mirrored image to show the progression of the event (from left to right). (Robert P. Moreno Jr., Jim Albers and Peter Jenniskens/NASA-SETI)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fragmentation of the Novato meteorite on Oct. 17, 2012, as depicted in a horizontally mirrored image to show the progression of the event (from left to right). (Robert P. Moreno Jr., Jim Albers and Peter Jenniskens/NASA-SETI)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was not a planet killer, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404122409.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the comet or asteroid\u003c/a> that snuffed out the dinosaurs. It didn't \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/shSoeqmxBHs?list=UUtJKflPxasUqeAVYRWQj-XA\" target=\"_blank\">flare with sunlike brilliance or end with a terrifying blast\u003c/a> like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57165\" target=\"_blank\">the meteor that plunged from the heavens\u003c/a> near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, the Novato meteorite, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-streak-a-boom-and-now-meteor-debris-3960502.php\" target=\"_blank\">streaked across Bay Area skies\u003c/a> nearly two years ago, was a more modest object. But a group of 50 researchers from NASA, the SETI Institute and elsewhere say the meteorite has its own epic story to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers have traced a series of violent episodes dating back nearly 4.5 billion years and ending on Oct. 17, 2012, when the meteorite broke up and fell on and around the Marin County suburb that it's now named after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick timeline of those events:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>4.472 billion years ago (give or take 31 million years):\u003c/strong> The Novato's parent body is struck by debris from the catastrophic impact that formed the Earth's moon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>470 million years ago:\u003c/strong> Another large impact smashes the Novato's parent body; it's now part of an asteroid in a field of debris between Mars and Jupiter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>9 million years ago: \u003c/strong>Novato breaks off the asteroid, but could still be part of a larger piece of space rock.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>1 million years ago:\u003c/strong> The rock that will become Novato breaks away from its current parent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>100,000 years ago:\u003c/strong> Novato in yet another collision, chemical studies suggest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oct. 17, 2012, 7:45 P.M. PDT:\u003c/strong> The Novato meteorite, now about 14 inches across and weighing about 176 pounds, hits the Earth's atmosphere at 9 miles per second and breaks up over the North Bay.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The fall of the Novato meteorite was monitored by an astronomical surveillance network, \u003ca href=\"http://cams.seti.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CAMS (Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance)\u003c/a>, which allowed researchers to offer a guess about where the object came down. The initial estimate was somewhere near Martinez. But after the meteorite came down, Novato resident Lisa Webber reported that she had recovered a rock that apparently had fallen on her roof. That turned out to be the first of the meteorite fragments to be recovered (and the reason the object is now called the Novato meteorite).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several weeks, five more fragments, most just an inch or two across, turned up within a few miles of Webber's home -- a process \u003ca href=\"http://cams.seti.org/index-N.html\" target=\"_blank\">recounted on the CAMS website\u003c/a>. That's the evidence that allowed the scientists to piece together what they call the space rock's \"tumultuous journey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-partners-reveal-california-meteorites-rough-and-tumble-journey/index.html#.U-6TlPldV8E\" target=\"_blank\">the group's press release\u003c/a>, by way of NASA:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NASA, Partners Reveal California Meteorite's Rough and Tumble Journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and tumultuous journey through space and Earth's atmosphere. An international consortium of fifty researchers studied the fallen meteorite and published their findings in the August issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our investigation has revealed a long history that dates to when the moon formed from the Earth after a giant impact,\" says Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer and consortium study lead working for the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenniskens captured the meteorite's fall in NASA's Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance and quickly calculated the likely fall area over the city of Novato. Novato residents Lisa Webber and Glenn Rivera then remembered hearing something hit their garage roof that night, found the first meteorite, and made it available for study. Often researchers use the location a meteorite was found to name to the rock; this meteorite now is officially known as \"Novato\" according to the Meteoritical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We determined that the meteorite likely got its black appearance from massive impact shocks causing a collisional resetting event 4.472 billion years ago, roughly 64-126 million years after the formation of the solar system,\" says Qing-zhu Yin, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California (UC), Davis. \"We now suspect that the moon-forming impact may have scattered debris all over the inner solar system and hit the parent body of the Novato meteorite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin and collaborators also measured when the meteorites' parent body broke into fragments during another massive collision, about 470 million years ago. This created a debris field in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter from which Novato-like meteorites, which are known as \"L6 ordinary chondrites,\" now are coming to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists had earlier identified the similarly-aged Gefion asteroid family in the middle of the main asteroid belt as the likely source of Novato-like meteorites. Jenniskens successfully measured the Novato approach orbit and confirmed that Gefion can be the source of these meteorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Novato broke from one of the Gefion family asteroids nine million years ago,\" said Kees Welten, cosmochemist at UC Berkeley. \"But may have been buried in a larger object until about one million years ago,\" added Kunihiko Nishiizumi, cosmochemist also of UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Novato meteoroid was ejected from the asteroid belt, its path periodically brought it back to the asteroid belt. Scientists at Ames measured the meteorites' thermoluminescence – the light re-emitted when heating of the material and releasing the stored energy of past electromagnetic and ionizing radiation exposure – to determine that Novato may have had another collision less than 100,000 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can tell the rock was heated, but the cause of the heating is unclear,\" said Derek Sears, a meteoriticist working for the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Sonoma, California, at Ames. \"It seems that Novato was hit again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Novato meteoroid finally hit Earth's atmosphere, scientists approximate it measured 14 inches (35 centimeters) and weighed 176 pounds (80 kilograms). Robert P. Moreno, Jr., photographed in great detail the meteoroid's final breakup in Earth's atmosphere from Santa Rosa, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These photographs show that this meteorite – now one of the best studied meteorites of its kind – broke in spurts, each time creating a flash of light as it entered Earth's atmosphere,\" said Jenniskens. \"In all, six surviving fragments were recovered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were surprised to find that all these impacts did not completely destroy the organic compounds in this meteorite. Qinghao Wu and Richard Zare of Stanford University in California measured a rich array of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds - complex, carbon-rich molecules that are both widespread and abundant throughout the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Glavin at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, led a team to search the Novato meteorites for amino acids – molecules present in and essential for life on Earth – and detected some unusual non-protein amino acids that are now very rare on Earth but indigenous to the Novato meteorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The quick recovery of the Novato meteorites made these studies possible,\" says Jenniskens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research was supported by the NASA Near Earth Object Observation, Planetary Astronomy and Cosmochemistry programs, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/144889/the-violent-past-of-a-space-rock-that-fell-to-earth-in-novato","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_356"],"tags":["news_442","news_355","news_1299"],"featImg":"news_144926","label":"news_6944"},"news_36674":{"type":"posts","id":"news_36674","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"36674","score":null,"sort":[1313009288000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"seti-continues-to-boldly-go-where-no-other-satellites-have-gone-before","title":"SETI Continues to Boldly Go Where No Other Telescopes Have Scanned Before","publishDate":1313009288,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" title=\"About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/2686772625_99f8d94603_b.jpg\" alt=\"About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\" width=\"368\" height=\"246\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's on... the search for other life in the universe. After being turned off for lack of funds, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/seti-institute-allen-telescope-array-to-go-back-online-in-september.html\">reports \u003c/a>that a fundraising effort has turned up the $200,000 needed to help get the array up and running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had raised more than $200,000 from a crowd-sourced fundraising effort that launched this spring. The money, which came from just over 2,000 people who want to keep the search for alien life alive, will help the institute put its Allen Telescope Array back online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are so grateful to our donors,\" said Tom Pierson, who co-founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/\">SETI Institute\u003c/a> with Jill Tarter (the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in \"Contact\"). \"We believe we will be back on the air in September.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://setistars.org/\">Setistars website\u003c/a>, where the call for donations was originally placed, large red type proclaims: \"Thank You for Your Support to Resume the Search!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Allen Telescope Array, or ATA, is a series of 42 linked radio-telescope dishes funded by a $30-million gift from Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen. Built at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in a valley near Mt. Shasta, it is the first group of radio telescopes built from the ground up with the intention of monitoring the universe full-time for radio waves that would indicate there is life on other planets.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED on-line was all over this story when the satellites went off-line in April. Lisa Pickoff-White had a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/27/seti-now-searches-for-funds-instead-of-ets-interview-with-jill-tartar/\">post \u003c/a>that goes into great detail about why is a particularly good time to continue the search, thanks to new technologies. And Amy Standen of \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/\">Quest \u003c/a>spent time with Jill Tarter. In her \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2011/05/06/should-seti-stop-looking/\">piece\u003c/a>, Standen asked the question \"Is it time for SETI to stop looking?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looks like now they shouldn't have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1313022774,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":338},"headData":{"title":"SETI Continues to Boldly Go Where No Other Telescopes Have Scanned Before | KQED","description":"It's on... the search for other life in the universe. After being turned off for lack of funds, the Los Angeles Times reports that a fundraising effort has turned up the $200,000 needed to help get the array up and running again. This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SETI Continues to Boldly Go Where No Other Telescopes Have Scanned Before","datePublished":"2011-08-10T20:48:08.000Z","dateModified":"2011-08-11T00:32:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"36674 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=36674","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/10/seti-continues-to-boldly-go-where-no-other-satellites-have-gone-before/","disqusTitle":"SETI Continues to Boldly Go Where No Other Telescopes Have Scanned Before","path":"/news/36674/seti-continues-to-boldly-go-where-no-other-satellites-have-gone-before","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" title=\"About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/2686772625_99f8d94603_b.jpg\" alt=\"About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\" width=\"368\" height=\"246\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 350 telescopes search for extraterrestial life at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Kathleen Franklin/Flick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's on... the search for other life in the universe. After being turned off for lack of funds, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/seti-institute-allen-telescope-array-to-go-back-online-in-september.html\">reports \u003c/a>that a fundraising effort has turned up the $200,000 needed to help get the array up and running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had raised more than $200,000 from a crowd-sourced fundraising effort that launched this spring. The money, which came from just over 2,000 people who want to keep the search for alien life alive, will help the institute put its Allen Telescope Array back online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are so grateful to our donors,\" said Tom Pierson, who co-founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/\">SETI Institute\u003c/a> with Jill Tarter (the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in \"Contact\"). \"We believe we will be back on the air in September.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://setistars.org/\">Setistars website\u003c/a>, where the call for donations was originally placed, large red type proclaims: \"Thank You for Your Support to Resume the Search!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Allen Telescope Array, or ATA, is a series of 42 linked radio-telescope dishes funded by a $30-million gift from Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen. Built at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in a valley near Mt. Shasta, it is the first group of radio telescopes built from the ground up with the intention of monitoring the universe full-time for radio waves that would indicate there is life on other planets.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED on-line was all over this story when the satellites went off-line in April. Lisa Pickoff-White had a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/27/seti-now-searches-for-funds-instead-of-ets-interview-with-jill-tartar/\">post \u003c/a>that goes into great detail about why is a particularly good time to continue the search, thanks to new technologies. And Amy Standen of \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/\">Quest \u003c/a>spent time with Jill Tarter. In her \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2011/05/06/should-seti-stop-looking/\">piece\u003c/a>, Standen asked the question \"Is it time for SETI to stop looking?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looks like now they shouldn't have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/36674/seti-continues-to-boldly-go-where-no-other-satellites-have-gone-before","authors":["252"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_356"],"tags":["news_1771","news_1299","news_1770"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_31609":{"type":"posts","id":"news_31609","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"31609","score":null,"sort":[1308633217000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"seti-looking-for-intelligence-out-there-cash-down-here","title":"SETI Looking for Intelligence Out There, Cash Down Here","publishDate":1308633217,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Mountain View's \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/page.aspx?pid=1581\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute\u003c/a>, the organization dedicated to answering the question \"Are we alone in the universe\" (or alternately, \"Is there a civilization out there that's grown its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.jackiegleason.com/ralph.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Kramden\u003c/a>?\"), is taking the wraps off a new fundraising effort Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/ata.jpg.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/ata.jpg-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ata.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31610\">\u003c/a>The institute, with help from some friends in the media business, is launching \u003ca href=\"http://setistars.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SETIstars.org\u003c/a> to solicit support from the general public. The immediate goal—help the institute come up with $200,000 so it can take its \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/ata\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Telescope Array\u003c/a> (named after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, its lead funder) out of hibernation. The organization was forced to shut down the array this spring because funds for the project dried up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As SETI research director Jill Tarter has pointed out, the timing was ironic: The closure occurred just as NASA was delivering news that its Kepler mission had found more than 1,200 exoplanets. Those are worlds all ripe for exploration by SETI and its radio telescopes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the official announcement of SETIstars.org:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View, California – Tuesday, June 21, 2011 – Today The SETI Institute announces the launch of SETIstars.org, a new initiative to bring the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) back online. The array comprises 42 telescopes in Northern California that scan for radio signals from outer space, contributing greatly to one of the most profound enterprises in human history: the search for life elsewhere in the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a lack of funds curtailed this search, forcing the ATA into hibernation. But public outcry over the shutdown has been enormous, surprising even longtime SETI Institute staff members, who remain optimistic about future prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very excited to be launching SETIstars.org today,” said Jill Tarter, Director of The SETI Institute’s Center for SETI Research, and winner of the 2009 TED Prize. “By putting this site online, we are taking the first step toward allowing the general public to take a more personal stake in the future of one of the most important scientific endeavors in the history of humankind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the website may donate directly, to support a $200,000 challenge that will bring the ATA out of hibernation. In addition to donating, visitors can learn more about the ATA and the SETIstars project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The launch of SETIstars could not come at a more crucial time,” said Tarter. \"Thanks to NASA's Kepler Mission, for the first time in human history we can now direct the telescope's scans towards planet candidates in the habitable zone around their parent star. It is exactly the wrong time for the telescope to go dark. 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