{"id":102378,"date":"2020-02-14T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-technologies-strategies-expanding-search-for-extraterrestrial-life"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:45:29","slug":"new-technologies-strategies-expanding-search-for-extraterrestrial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-technologies-strategies-expanding-search-for-extraterrestrial-life","title":{"rendered":"New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technologies-strategies-expanding-search-for-extraterrestrial-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, are spurring innovative approaches by both government and private organizations, according to a panel of experts speaking at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>New approaches will not only expand upon but also go beyond the traditional SETI technique of searching for intelligently-generated <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radio+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio signals<\/a>, first pioneered by Frank Drake\u2019s Project Ozma in 1960. Scientists now are designing state-of-the-art techniques to detect a variety of signatures that can indicate the possibility of extraterrestrial technologies. Such \u201ctechnosignatures\u201d can range from the chemical composition of a planet\u2019s atmosphere, to laser emissions, to structures orbiting other stars, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the privately-funded SETI Institute announced an agreement to collaborate on new systems to add SETI capabilities to radio telescopes operated by NRAO. The first project will develop a system to piggyback on the National Science Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) that will provide data to a state-of-the-art technosignature search system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, are spurring innovative approaches by both government and private organizations, according to a panel of experts speaking at a meeting of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}