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About 300 miles outside of San Francisco, dozens of giant antennas sit unused in an open field. A dream of the SETI Institute for decades, construction on the Allen Telescope Array began in 2004 after three years of planning and about $30 million in donations from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, for whom the array is named. Before funding dried up and the plug was pulled this past April, SETI used those massive antennas to monitor the skies, listening for signs of life, hoping to discover extraterrestrial intelligence.
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With Jodie Foster's Support, SETI to Resume Search for Aliens - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
Seeded on Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:29 AM EDT
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