The Field

The Head of one of the US national observatories", says The Search for intelligent life elsewhere in The Universe needs to be taken seriously.

Dr. Anthony Beasley told the BBC that there is more public support for a field that was avoided through government research funders for decades.

His support for The Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) marks considered to be a change in the setting to a field, until recently, as border Sciences.

Dr. Beasley made his comments at The American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Seattle.

The Director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, said it was now "time for Seti to come in from the cold and be properly integrated into all other areas of Astronomy ".

Dr. Beasley's comments come as the Private Sector promoter of the Seti research announced that the Very Large Array (VLA) Observatory in New Mexico would be the accession of the effort to detect signs of intelligent life on other worlds.

The VLA is a multi-antenna Observatory, and the home, what is considered to be one of the best-equipped telescopes in The World .

According to Dr. Andrew Siemion, the leader of The Breakthrough science team to Hear-at the University of California, Berkeley Seti research center, the involvement of VLA would increase the chances of finding intelligent life through the "10 - or even 100-fold".

"We are now for The Most comprehensive all-sky survey [extra-terrestrial intelligence], which was ever achieved," he told the BBC.

Equally important, according to Dr. Siemion, is the credibility of the VLA-participation on The Field .

"We would like to see, Seti is transformed from a small cabal of scientists and engineers in California, cut off from the science to how much an integral part of Astronomy and Astro-physics than any other field of investigation. "

breakthrough is a privately funded project to search for intelligent extra-terrestrial communication in the whole universe is Listening. The 10-year project started in the year 2016, funded by the billionaire Yuri Milner , in the amount of $100m (£77m).

, The British astronomer Royal, Professor Lord Rees, the Chairman of the organization's international advisory group. He told the BBC that, since the multi-billion-pound Large Hadron Collider had not yet achieved his goal, The Search for sub-atomic particles, beyond the current theory of physics, the governments should consider modest resources of a few million pounds for Seti.

"I had the feeling that a lot more trusting of the arguments for Seti as for a particle accelerator," he said.

"Seti are worth looking certainly, in spite of The Heavy odds against success, because the stakes are so high".

the Nasa time funded The Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence in the amount of $10m per year. But the funding was scrapped in 1993 after the introduction of the legislation, Senator Richard Bryan , who believed that it was a waste of money.

"hopefully, the end of The Martian -Hunting Season at the taxpayer's expense," he said at the time.

There was no significant public funding for Seti in the United States or Anywhere Else in The World , because, although the so-called Astro-biology is looking for evidence of simple organisms and of the chemical signatures in the atmosphere of other worlds receives increasing support.

at the time when The First planets, the distant stars have been discovered, but it was not known whether this was The Norm . We now know that it is - were almost discovered in a 4,000 so far.

It is this development, according to Dr. Siemion, has led many respected scientists, that The Search for intelligent life on other worlds should be taken seriously.

"ever since man looked up at the starry sky and wondered, 'there's someone Out There ?' We now have the opportunity to answer this question, and maybe You make a discovery that would rank as The Most profound scientific discoveries in the history of mankind".

Source of news: bbc.com