Friday, April 23, 2010

SETI Releases Its Collected Data To The Public, Wants Open-Source Search For Whatever's Out There

The Allen Telescope Array Radio? What is this, the 1930s? Aliens, hit us back on Twitter. We're @Earth284. SETI, via MSNBC

From Popular Science:

Your chance to spot 50 years' worth of sneakily concealed aliens.

Over the past decade, those who wished to contribute to SETI's mission of locating life elsewhere in the universe could leave their computers on running a special screensaver and donate their unused computing power to the cause. Now, SETI director Jill Tarter is asking people around the globe to get more involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by opening up SETI's servers to the public calling for a worldwide, open source contribution to the search.

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