Joel Kontinen
China has risen to the top of radio astronomy and the search for Search for extra-terrerstrial intellligence or SETI. However, “Anyone hoping for a redo of the 1960s 'space race' between the Soviet Union and the United States in today's international SETI scene is going to be disappointed. In SETI, international cooperation wins over competition," said Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International in San Francisco.”
Researchers using China's new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single-dish scope in the world, They are are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).
They are using the five-hundred-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (fast) in southwest China's Guizhou province.
China is controlled by the communist party, for which SETI is a God-send. They believe that faith in God is superfluous, that everything can be explained by science or their modelling of it.
Source:
David, Leonard. 2020. SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.? Live Science 25 May.
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