00:00The search for alien life most often has scientists looking for biosignatures in places like Saturn's moons.
00:10But now researchers with Cornell University are looking for them at the heart of our galaxy,
00:15using new methods of communication with possible intelligent life living there.
00:19It's all part of the breakthrough list in investigation for periodic spectral signals, or BLIPS for short.
00:25And it's looking to discover any radio emissions coming from the center of the Milky Way,
00:29then a way to boost them in the hunt for intelligent extraterrestrials.
00:32So why the center of the Milky Way?
00:34Well, due to the dust clouds present there, it was very difficult to see until recently.
00:38It's also a very noisy area with regards to signals,
00:41which while it can be loud and difficult to isolate individual data streams,
00:44it also means there's a higher number of stars, meaning a higher number of potentially habitable worlds,
00:49likely many we haven't even discovered yet.
00:52The researchers have now tested their fast folding algorithm, which can identify periodic signals,
00:56like the ones we would expect to come from an extraterrestrial communication.
01:00And while they haven't found any possible alien transmissions just yet,
01:03they proved the method works on pulsar stars,
01:06meaning now we might finally have the tools necessary to identify and isolate signals
01:11coming from alien civilizations.
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