Alien life will be monitored again by Mountain View-based SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) as it announced that it has raised substantial amount of money to get Allen Telescope Array up and running again. This facility has 42 large dish antennas capable to scan radio signals from just about anywhere including the Universe.
SETI conducted a fundraising known as SETIstars which asking financial aid to the public for the array to be back online. The SETIstars website claims it had collected more than $206,000 from around 2,300 individual donations.
SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak was gratified with the outcome and pointed out that the possibility of extraterrestrials is not limited in the sky as every week there is a new movie regarding aliens.
He states that people are curious with the notion on the existence of extraterrestrials and Science is demonstrating a lot of planets that are habitable.
Co-founder of the SETI Institute Tom Pierson believes they will resume their operation in September 2011. SETI has been in partnership with the Radio Astronomy Lab at the University of California in telescope array operation but had been stopped since April 15, 2011. This is because of a funding deficit which forced SETI to stop its radio signal operations.
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