座落在哈佛的奥克里奇天文台地面站的科学家们目前每天都密切监视着计算机输出的结果。这个地面站是1984年建成的,它拥有一座直径400英尺的射电天文望远镜。巨大的望远镜时时刻刻都在向天空扫描,希望能捕获到银河系中发自智慧生物的信号。科学家们认为,如果来自天空某一固定点的信号增强,可能意味着来自地外文明生物的一种“呼唤”。据这个项目的主持人介绍,他们已经设计了能同时处理800万个无线电频道的计算机。为寻找地外文明的工作早在1960年就已经开始。现在他们正把望远镜聚焦在两个离地球100 Scientists at the Earth Station at Oakridge Observatory in Harvard now monitor the output of computers closely every day. Built in 1984, the ground station has a 400-foot radio telescope. Huge telescopes are scanning the sky all the time, hoping to capture the signals from the intelligent creatures in the Milky Way. Scientists believe that if the signal from a fixed point in the sky is enhanced, it may mean a “call” from a civilization outside the Earth. According to the host of the project, they have designed a computer capable of handling 8 million radio channels simultaneously. The search for extratermanary civilizations began as early as 1960. Now they are focusing their telescope on two 100 Earth