Want to Hunt Aliens? Go to West Virginia’s Low-Tech ‘Quiet Zone’

The scientists hunting extraterrestrial life at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia require absolute silence to do their work. Sitting before giant computers hooked up to an enormous radio telescope, they record signals originating in galaxies thousands upon thousands of light years away. The energy waves they’re listening to are so faint—some just a …

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