{"id":527760,"date":"2018-09-28T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e28170279d2693447854ec4fe307af3d"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:40:01","slug":"a-model-that-computes-the-fraction-of-the-haystack-that-seti-programs-have-collectively-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=527760","title":{"rendered":"A model that computes the fraction of the &#8216;haystack&#8217; that SETI programs have collectively examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why haven&#8217;t we found evidence of life anywhere but Earth? A trio of astrophysicists has revisited this question by taking a closer look at the &#8220;needle in a haystack&#8221; analogy. Their analysis involved creating a model to assess the amount of work that has been done searching for extraterrestrial life, the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, compared to how much is required before scientists can rule out the possibility that there is none. Jason Wright, Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar have written a paper describing their efforts and uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why haven&#8217;t we found evidence of life anywhere but Earth? A trio of astrophysicists has revisited this question by taking a closer look at the &#8220;needle in a haystack&#8221; analogy. Their analysis involved creating a model to assess the amount of work that ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527761,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527760\/revisions\/527761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}