Looking for alien lasers, not radios
April 12, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service
The first optical telescope dedicated to the hunt for alien signals, the Planetary Society’s Optical SETI (OSETI) telescope at Harvard’s Oak Ridge Observatory, has opened.
Once running, OSETI’s processors will carry out a trillion measurements per second, in a year-round survey of the sky. It will be able to pick out flashes of light that are only a billionth of a second long.