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humanity's most patient wrong number, dialed toward the entire sky.
means the search for extraterrestrial intelligence: scanning cosmic radio and light signals for patterns that only a mind, not a star, could make.
from launched in earnest in 1960 when astronomer frank drake pointed a west virginia radio telescope at two nearby stars, project ozma, betting that if aliens wanted to be found they would broadcast on the same wavelength hydrogen sings on.
drake equationdrake's guess-the-aliens formula still unsolved for any variable
wow signal1977 blip so strange someone wrote wow on it
seti@homemillions donated idle computers to crunch cosmic static
funding fatenasa defunded seti in 1993 after congress mocked it