SETI Search for

So where are they then This question, now famous, is attributed to Enrico Fermi he was reacting to an observation, made by a member of the audience at a physics conference in Los Alamos in 1950, that there must be extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). (The search for ETI is known as SETI, search for extraterrestrial intelligence.) The question is now known as the Fermi paradox initial investigations with the goal of solving it took place a few years after Fermi s question was posed. 

SETI Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - a survey of the radio spectrum looking for signs of communication from other intelligent life. 

In March 2002, a team of researchers from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported on an important breakthrough in the search for amino acids in the ISM. These researchers attempted to reproduce in their laboratory the conditions found in the ISM. They enclosed a mixture of molecules already known to exist in the ISM in a container cooled to 15K under a pressure of about 10 8 torr (a pressure of 1 torr is equal to 1 mm of mercury),... 

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence was originally coordinated by the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, founded in 1984 however, in 1992,... 

Tarter, J.. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Annu. rev. Astron. Astrophys. 2001 39 511-48. 

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