Those crazy SETI scientists are up to it again in their search for signals from far-off alien civilizations.
An alliance has been formed between three groups of researchers from the SETI Institute, Breakthrough Listen, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
According to the article “The new project is called COSMIC (“Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster”) and is in operation at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes in New Mexico.”
When I was a nerdy college student I used to run SETI’s desktop program that would run as a screensaver and analyze signals collected by the Arecibo Observatory located near Arecibo, Puerto Rico. I even recruited my parents and brother’s computers to pool our processing power and crunch the data, but alas we never found any signals from aliens.
Here’s to hoping the brainiacs over at the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes in New Mexico have better luck.
