Humanity’s Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Intensifying
In the third episode of Moonshot, a Bloomberg Originals series, meet the scientists trying to help mankind find alien life.
Radio telescopes in the Atacama desert, 1,500 km north of Santiago, Chile.
Photographer: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
A group of scientists want to help mankind get in touch with aliens. The initiative, called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, uses large radio telescopes pointed at nearby stars and galaxies, part of an effort to detect electromagnetic radiation that may indicate the existence of alien technology.
In the third installment of Moonshot, a Bloomberg Originals series, we meet the people behind this momentous mission. Astronomer Jill Tarter, the basis for Jodie Foster’s character in the feature film “Contact,” has made SETI her life’s work.