{"id":12291,"date":"2016-03-05T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2016-03-05T20:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T01:22:44","slug":"video-review-of-seti-projects-and-the-100m-breakthrough-listen-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12291","title":{"rendered":"Video: Review of SETI projects and the $100M Breakthrough Listen Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/SETI Institute\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> seminar,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/astro.berkeley.edu\/researcher-profile\/2358306-andrew-siemion\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Andrew Siemion<\/a>, Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/seti.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley SETI Research Center<\/a> (BSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley,\u00a0gives an excellent review of SETI projects past, present, and future and includes an<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>overview of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthroughinitiatives.org\/Initiative\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Breakthrough Listen Initiative<\/a>, 100-million-dollar, 10-year search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Siemion will also discuss other SETI efforts ongoing at the BSRC, including the successful citizen science project <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">SETI@Home<\/a>, as well as a concerted effort to undertake panchromatic observations of the mysterious Kepler star KIC 8462852<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDT6E4SbVow?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this SETI Institute seminar,\u00a0Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley,\u00a0gives an excellent review of SETI projects past, present, and future and includes an overview of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, 100-million-dollar, 10-year search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Siemion will also discuss other SETI efforts ongoing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Review of SETI projects and the $100M Breakthrough Listen Initiative<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3cf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13032,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13032","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;Frontiers in Artifact SETI: Waste Heat, Alien Megastructures &#038; Tabbys Star&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u00a0posted recently\u00a0about\u00a0 Tabby\u2019s Star, also known as\u00a0the \u201cAlien Megastructure Star\u201d. \u00a0In the SETI Institute seminar video below, Prof. Jason Wright of\u00a0Penn State University reviews what's known about the star and discusses the latest findings on\u00a0the star in the context of searches for \"Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies\". 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