THE search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is back on NASA’s agenda for the first time in almost ten years. Their change of heart may signify that the agency is starting to take the possibility of finding alien life more seriously.
“The tides are changing back in favour of doing SETI,” says Tom Pierson, CEO of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He says NASA’s more positive attitude is “in response to the ever-growing body of research that shows that life out there is likely”. The past six years has seen the first proof of planets outside our solar system – 102 at the last count.…
