MEXICO: The Australian astrophysicist at the heart of the ET hunt says he tries to put himself in the shoes of aliens.
Think like an alien. That’s what Professor Matthew Bailes from Swinburne University says he needs to do if he’s to discover extraterrestrials when the Parkes radio telescope begins to systematically scan stars for intelligent life next year.
“You need to place yourself in the shoes of aliens and imagine what their signals could be. You could look for radar blips, or deliberate transmissions, or things which are being Doppler shifted as they are travelling around a world, or another star,” says Bailes, who is leading the Australian part of a new $100 million project to locate aliens announced this week.
The search is being funded by Russian technology mogul Yuri Milner, who invested $200 million in Facebook in its early years and startled the science world three years ago when he began handing out $3 million annual “breakthrough prizes” to scientists who make extraordinary discoveries. Australian astrophysicist Brian Schmidt, recently announced as the next vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, jointly won one of them.
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