Word: seti
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...intensity with which the spiffily attired investment brokers of the African Banking Corp. stare at their computer screens is misleading. A closer look reveals that they're either fiddling with iTunes or playing solitaire. Still, their boss, Seti Shumba, who moonlights as chairman of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, offers them smiles and pats on the back - he's just glad they showed up to work...
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the astronomers, led by Dana Backman of the California-based SETI Institute, discovered the existence of two asteroid belts and an icy outer ring surrounding Epsilon Eridani...
Both these projects required the construction of a more powerful spectrum analyzer than Suitcase SETI, so that more channels could be scanned. These searches covered most of the northern sky, but failed to receive any signals that were ever replicated...
...March 1999, the 84-foot radio telescope was badly damaged in a storm, and in 2007 it was torn down. The search, however, continues for Horowitz, who has moved on to optical SETI, using a 72-inch optical telescope for his current project...
...Nobody’s got anything as fancy as we have at Harvard: this is the cat’s meow in terms of optical SETI...