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Help wanted in search for life in outer space

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    Amateur astronomers recruited to find evidence of aliens

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Search for alien intelligence is an enduring human endeavor.

Many scientists say it's just a matter of time before we find evidence it exists and now anyone can get in on the -- -- you need is and computer Internet access and then.

Desire to help out steadied the search for extraterrestrial.

Intelligence.

Is recruiting citizen scientists to help unscramble billions of radio signals and isolate those coming from earth or space satellites from sources quite literally out of this world.

We're looking for a signal that simply says one thing.

There's somebody out their clever enough to have built a radio transmitter.

Right now 42 radio telescopes in northern California are gathering data from star systems that scientists have determined could contain earth like planets the problem is there are just too many signals for studies computer -- to analyze alone.

That's why the data coming in through these telescopes is being posted online available for free to amateur astronomers or anyone else interested in finding -- the kind of -- that this citizen scientists for setting I would be looking at what are called waterfall Watson.

This is one here said he scientists say their computer algorithms can't discern anomalies as well the human -- With said he -- dot org space enthusiasts like Alan Schwartz can identify odd patterns see what looks to me like some kind of faint -- here report her findings and just maybe.

Discover long sought signals from intelligent life beyond our galaxy is just so tantalizing nearly 60000 volunteers already examined millions of pieces of data.

If enough people identified the same mysterious patterns those telescopes will take a closer look.

And maybe -- maybe confirm what alien -- the easiest I've been saying all along.

We are not alone.

In hat creek California Claudia Cowan Fox News.

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