Although the U.s. government is the funding tap for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has turned off, the SETI project thanks to contributions from supporters to continue to exist. Now is 200,000 dollars to be picked up.
In april of this year, announced SETI ceo Tom Pierson of the SETI Institute are the most important tool in the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence could no longer bet. The Allen Telescope Array, or ATA, a collection of radio telescopes that the universe afspeurde for signs of alien civilizations, had to because of lack of money be taken out of service. Later, the institute’s SetiStars project, which the contributions of the public asked for the ATA in use.
In exchange for an amount of your choice to get individuals and companies an entry on the SetiStars-page. Now have almost tweeëntwintighonderd donors together with more than two hundred thousand euros. That was the amount that was needed in order the ATA out of his sleep mode. The use of the telescope will, in the future, however, depends on donations to continue: every year about two and a half million dollars needed. The SetiStars project remains donors to recruit.
The main application of the ATA is the study of the so-called Kepler planets. These are exo-planets identified by NASA’s Kepler space telescope were discovered and, possibly, of supporting life. Already, more than twelve hundred candidate planets identified by the array can be studied.
