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August 15, 2011 12:42 pm 10 comments

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SETI Institute Radio antennas stand sentinel at the Allen Telescope Array, north of San Francisco.

After a massive fund was donated by private financers, research in quest for signs of alien life continues with the aid of a collection of 42 radio telescopes.

According to news, published by The San Jose Mercury News, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has been funded with approximately $200,000, including contributions made by the famous actress Jodie Foster, in order to assist it in furthering its work.

This project, which was initially being carried out under a partnership between SETI Institute and UC Berkeley Astronomy Laboratory, had been stopped earlier during the year due to insufficient funds, after the organization lost out on grants offered by National Science Foundation and the state cut down on its finances.

Much appreciation was shown by Seth Shostak, the senior SETI Institute astronomer, who was grateful that such a large amount of donations could be collected, even during such difficult times faced by the economy.

The operations, being carried out with the assistance of telescopes, will restart from the month of September and continue 24 hours a day for the remaining part of the year, until another source for financing is found.

“But people still think this very fundamental question — is there somebody out there as intelligent or more so than us? — is important and worth doing,” he stated.

Not only is the collection of telescopes being utilized to locate signs of intelligent life on other planets, but it is also operating to carry out research on black holes, magnetic fields in the Milky Way and pulsars.

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