Glenn writes:

> I'm a bit confused (as usual), but the BBC is reporting:
>
>     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3567729.stm
>
>    "Astronomers have completed their most sensitive search yet
>     for radio signals from intelligent life in space."
>
>  The article refers specifically to Project Phoenix, but it uses
>  the same radio telescope (Arecibo, in Puerto Rico) as the
>  SETI@home project.
>
>  My confusion (on this particular topic ;) is that there is no
>  announcement on the SETI@home site about the project being complete.
>  In fact, some members of Team HP3000-L have contributed results as
>  recently as today.

The confusion results from the fact that they are two different surveys.
Project Phoenix is a program run by the Seti Institute in Mountain View, CA. The
SETI@home project is run out of the Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley.

The SETI@home project's receivers piggyback on the Arecibo receiver and feeds
its own data collectors. It is my understanding that the Phoenix Project
utilizes the primary receivers at Arecibo, but Arecibo is not the only telescope
that Phoenix uses. See:

http://www.seti.org/seti/our_projects/project_phoenix/past_searches/Welcome.ht
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Wirt Atmar

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