Your Ad Here

SETI comes back from the financial dead, gets a check from Jodie Foster

Roswell devotees, dry those tears — the hunt for alien overlords frenemies is back on. Four months after going into financial “hibernation,” SETI’s Allen Telescope Array have been temporarily resuscitated due to an infusion of publicly raised funds from the SETIStars program, and Ms. Jodie Foster. The internet campaign for those-who-believe raised over $200,000 in only 45 days, enough cash to get the Paul Allen-funded dishes scanning the skies for a minimum of five more months. Tom Pierson, the institute’s CEO, is hoping to secure long-term funding for the project from the U.S. Air Force, that can use the array in the course of the daytime “to trace orbital objects that otherwise might pose a threat to the International Space Station and other satellites.” However Pierson manages to maintain the fleet of skyward-facing ears afloat, one thing’s obviously — as a matter of fact accessible and tracking it is a hustle.

Source

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • email
  • PDF
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Google Bookmarks
  • RSS

This post is tagged: , , , , , ,

Leave a Reply





  • Lumus’ OE-31 optical engine turns motorcycle helmets, other eyewear into wearable displaysLumus’ OE-31 optical engine turns motorcycle helmets, other eyewear into wearable displays

    After showing off a duo of wearable, see-through displays at CES, Lumus is back with a second optical engine -- one who can be utilized in any kind of frames, from prescription glasses to ski goggles. Available in binocular and monocular configurations, the tiny OE-31 sensor weighs just 10 grams (.35 ounces), allowing it to deal with a lot of form factors besides your run-of-the mill… »
  • OMAP 5′s dual A15 cores wipe the ground with four A9s in browsing benchmarkOMAP 5′s dual A15 cores wipe the ground with four A9s in browsing benchmark

    We've seen Texas Instrument's OMAP 5 in action, but we've not been capable of pit it directly against a competitor. The Dallas company should be growing increasingly confident in its product however, as its posted a video demoing its pair of A15 cores alongside an unspecified quad-core A9 part -- presumably the Tegra 3. The video shows the subsequent-gen TI part powering in the… »

Categories

Subscribe

Enter your email address: