Stretching the Search for Signs of Life:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/sc...ref=technology
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Call it a small step for E.T., a leap for radio astronomy.
Astronomers in Hat Creek, Calif., are planning today to switch on the first
elements of a giant new array of radio telescopes that they say will greatly
extend the investigation of natural and unnatural phenomena in the universe.
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