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 Fish Photo Caption You are a star voyager. You share your starship Earth with six thousand million other human passengers, as you hurtle across space and time. Your ship is adrift in a vast ocean of four hundred thousand million stars, which we call the Milky Way. How can you look out at those other suns and not wonder about the creatures inhabiting their starship planets? The question "Are We Alone?" is as old as our species, yet it is only within an eyeblink of human history that we have begun to develop technology to seek a meaningful answer. Tune In The Universe is a hypertext book about the amateur quest for our cosmic companions. It was written by H. Paul Shuch, executive director of the international SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) League. He leads you on this journey. He explores the scientific and technological breakthroughs which lead us to now envision a universe teeming with life. Paul's background is in radio astronomy. As a radio amateur, he uses radio telescopes (sensitive microwave receivers, powerful computers and elaborate antennas) to sift through the cosmic static, in search of patterns which nature cannot produce by any mechanism known to us. This is probably not the only way to search for evidence of other civilizations in the cosmos, but these are the tools available to him. In recent years a number of phenomena (reported sightings, abductions, the Roswell incident, crop circles, Area 51, etc.) have defied explanation. These matters are certainly interesting, and may be worthy of further study by qualified experts. But the SETI community are primarily radio astronomers, arguably qualified to recover and analyze microwave signals. |
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