ET, Flash Home: New Telescope to Seek Alien Light Signals

ET, Flash Home: New Telescope to Seek Alien Light Signals: "ET, Flash Home: New Telescope to Seek Alien Light Signals
Adrianne Appel
for National Geographic News
April 21, 2006

A massive new telescope will soon begin scanning the skies for laser flashes from extraterrestrials.

Researchers are focusing on laser light because they think advanced intelligent beings would use it to communicate with us, rather than the far more primitive radio signal (related: 'Alien Contact More Likely by 'Mail' Than Radio, Study Says' [2004])."