... discover any extraterrestrial civilization, which is through detecting non-natural emissions from the solar system. The use of Radio Telescope has revolutionized the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Different antennas have been used in this venture such as in the Project Phoenix which is a survey done by SETI Institute, comprising of 1,000 star systems fixed with antennas or diameter ranging from 140-1,000 feet ... (Heidmann 1997). Their receivers could trace weak signals in more than ten million radio channels at the same time. However, currently the institute uses a small nu...

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