Jan 14, 2024 08:37 AM
https://themessenger.com/tech/china-seti...arch-space
INTRO: The race to find and make contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization is heating up.
For several years, China has rapidly ramped up its program to detect alien technology elsewhere in the universe even as the United States' own Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI, continues its decades-long search of the cosmos.
Neither has proven fruitful yet — indeed, we have never found clear evidence of extraterrestrial life of any kind anywhere in the universe. But to speed up any such discovery, China's Far Neighbour Project, an initiative run out of Beijing Normal University, is setting its sights not only on first contact, but also what to do if and when they achieve that feat.
The team is not modest about their ambition. China joining the search for intelligent alien life "will accelerate the progress of SETI studies and conduct more sensitive observations of a greater number of celestial targets," they write in the paper.
In a paper written by several Chinese astronomers connected to the Far Neighbour Project, they lay out the plan, detailing how they will use radio technology to try and find alien communications or other signals out in the universe, much like the U.S.'s SETI — and how they will deal with any technical detection of aliens... (MORE - details)
INTRO: The race to find and make contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization is heating up.
For several years, China has rapidly ramped up its program to detect alien technology elsewhere in the universe even as the United States' own Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI, continues its decades-long search of the cosmos.
Neither has proven fruitful yet — indeed, we have never found clear evidence of extraterrestrial life of any kind anywhere in the universe. But to speed up any such discovery, China's Far Neighbour Project, an initiative run out of Beijing Normal University, is setting its sights not only on first contact, but also what to do if and when they achieve that feat.
The team is not modest about their ambition. China joining the search for intelligent alien life "will accelerate the progress of SETI studies and conduct more sensitive observations of a greater number of celestial targets," they write in the paper.
In a paper written by several Chinese astronomers connected to the Far Neighbour Project, they lay out the plan, detailing how they will use radio technology to try and find alien communications or other signals out in the universe, much like the U.S.'s SETI — and how they will deal with any technical detection of aliens... (MORE - details)
