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Are we alone in the universe? About 30,000 volunteers want to know! These volunteers visited\u00a0arewealone.earth\u00a0to sift through a huge data set from the\u00a0100 meter Green Bank Telescope\u2014inspecting it for signals that might indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life. As of this week, this giant team has made ONE MILLION inspections!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled that our volunteers have accomplished so much in the short 10-month period since our launch,\u201d said project PI Jean-Luc Margot.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a major milestone to be sure. But does that mean this search is over? Not even close.\u00a0The Green Bank Telescope\u00a0collects millions of signals per hour! So UCLA graduate student Megan Li is building on the volunteer-submitted data to design and train a machine learning application that will help tackle that enormous data rate. She will present her preliminary results at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve been helping out\u2014thank you!\u00a0 And please\u00a0come help some more!\u00a0The 10th batch of UCLA SETI data has now been uploaded to the platform. Moreover, thanks to volunteer translators, the project is now available\u00a0in French\u00a0(translated by Louis Verhaeghe) and\u00a0in Portuguese\u00a0(translated by Fernando Nogal).<\/p>\n
\u201cAre we alone in the universe?\u201d was built by UCLA SETI on the Zooniverse platform with funding from The Planetary Society and the NASA Citizen Science Seed Funding Program.<\/p>\n