SETI

From RationalWiki

SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is a collective term for activities which search for extraterrestrial life, specifically intelligent life, "out there"^[1]. The main method that SETI employs is reading the radio-frequency noise emitting from various stars and attempting to detect clearly artificial signals.

Most signals received and analysed by SETI have turned out to have natural explanations, but regardless, the methods employed by the group are scientifically sound (making most of SETI's activities real science as opposed to pseudoscience) and their reported signals often feature in prominent journals. So even if SETI doesn't find life out there, it has found some very interesting non-life out there.

[edit] See also

• Alien abduction
• Aliensdidit
• Ufology
• Exobiology
• Exotheology
• Unidentified flying object

[edit] External links

• Seti and the wow signal Video
• 1/5 Are We Alone In The Universe? Video about possible aliens. This section deals with SETI.
• When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials? This film is very long.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ As opposed to RationalWiki's search for intelligent life "down here", which has been about as successful as SETI