SCIENTISTS TO SEARCH FOR ALIEN TECHNOLOGY

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and an international team of scientists will search for evidence of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations. The Galileo Project has received US$1.75 million in funding through private donations, according to Phys.org, but it is hoping to increase its funding tenfold, Loeb said in announcing the project Monday. The project will involve the creation and co-ordination of a global network of medium-sized telescopes, cameras and computers. The equipment will be used to examine unidentified flying objects. The project will also involve researchers from Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Caltech and the University of Stockholm. “We can no longer ignore the possibility that technological civilizations predated us,” Loeb said.