Sentences with phrase «detecting alien signals»

Most methods for calculating the likelihood of detecting alien signals start with an expected number of sources.

Not exact matches

Aliens might be actively broadcasting signals and trying to communicate with us, we just might not have the means to detect any of it.

Distributed computing has been used to find Marsenne Prime Numbers (GIMPS), process radio signals to detect alien trasmissions -LRB-[email protected]-RRB-, or calculate protein foldings -LRB-[email protected]-RRB-.

It could also detect faint alien signals leaking into space, akin to those from airport radar or TV broadcast towers.

The Drake equation includes a term L, which represents the life span of an alien civilization, but the implicit assumption is that such a civilization would emit signals we could both detect and recognize during its entire life span following its invention of radio.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

He found that even if half of our galaxy was full of alien noise, the average number of signals that we would be able to detect from Earth is less than one (Scientific Reports, doi.org/b562).

Last month, scientists said they couldn't detect alien radio signals coming from KIC 8462852.

If it is an alien spacecraft, perhaps we might detect some radio signals from it.

What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe and how might we detect signals from alien civilizations?