Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calculate], you start with how many stars are out there, what fraction of the stars are enough like ours that there would be life," Leigh says. "Even if the odds are reasonably low, there are enough stars out there that it puts the probability up there...
...qualify as a frequency transmitted by a potential extraterrestrial life form, Leigh says a frequency must fit several definite characteristics...
...frequencies should be "nice and quiet" and located "near the neutral hydrogen line," according to Leigh...
...Leigh also said the signal has to originate "not from the Earth [but] from a fixed point...
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...