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...real life, Harvard Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz has been searching for aliens for nearly 20 years...
With the assistance of an 84-foot radiotelescope in Harvard, Mass., Horowitz and his assistants listen for frequencies near the neutral hydrogen line, which could indicate the existence of life in outer space...
...project had moved on-line. Darren L. Leigh, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the equipment used in the Harvard SETI project and who has served as one of Horowitz's research assistants since 1992, helped build computers that screen the frequencies and then "send you e-mail if it has a possibly right signal," Leigh says. This project was called Billion Channel Extraterrestrial Assay, or BETA and is the system still in operation today...
Although they've found no aliens thus far, Leigh says that Horowitz did manage in part to inspire the Jodie Foster character, Ellie Arroway, in the Carl Sagan novel Contact, which was subsequently turned into a popular movie of the same name...
...Janice M. Horowitz...