I found another episode from The Planetary Society’s podcast Planetary Radio that is worth checking out. In this episode, Are we Alone? The Search for Alien Technosignatures, Professor Jean-Luc Margot and doctoral student Megan Li discuss their project at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to identify signals from other civilizations in the galaxy and then extract information encoded in those extraterrestrial signals. This project, called UCLA SETI, was also the winner of a Planetary Society STEP Grant as well as a NASA grant to conduct this work.
As of last week, a volunteer site was set up to assist the UCLA SETI team with this project. Here is some key information from its website:
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Watch a two-minute video about the UCLA SETI course or a 30-minute talk about the search for life in the universe.
The video is actually a 55-minute talks, but the key section related to this project starts at the 23:38 minute mark where the downloaded data is discussed.
This is your chance to identify something that no one has every seen before. Put some of that time you might have spent watching The Ark toward something useful.
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