Meeting extraterrestrials: Should we contact aliens?

As you read this, the metal dishes of 42 radio telescopes, hidden in a little-visited valley in California's Cascade Mountains, are locked on to a star system hundreds of light years away. Together they will scan 10 billion radio channels, searching for signals deliberately sent by intelligent aliens or accidentally leaked from their planets. Then the dishes will turn to the next star and its satellites.

Source: The Independent - Science - July 27, 2015 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news