SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

s.e.t.i. - search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Question #5:
What is the address of
the Arecibo Observatory?

SCAVENGER HUNT

Think you know everything about SETI? Think again! Try out this World Wide Web Scavenger Hunt and locate the answers online. Check the Answers page to see how you did. If you score well enough, perhaps you've got what it takes to find that signal we've been waiting for beyond the stars...

1. What is Project Ozma? Answer

2. What is the Drake Equation? Answer

3. Where can you find a picture and description of Dr. Frank Drake's 1974 Arecibo message? Answer

4. What is the name given to the most promising signal ever received by SETI? Answer

5. What is the address of the Arecibo Observatory? Answer

6. Where are the two BAMBI sites? Answer

7. What radio observatory holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Extraterrestrial Search? Answer

8. What is the largest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere? Answer

9. What Senator cut off funding for NASA's project SETI, and in what year? Answer

10. How much does a pin from the SETI Institute cost? Answer

Question #11:
What does the acronym SERENDIP
stand for, and what is it?

11. What does the acronym SERENDIP stand for, and what is it? Answer

12. What project run by the SETI institute of Mountain View, Cal. was the 1997 movie Contact loosely based on? Answer

13. What was the total number of members involved in the SETI@home effort by May 2000? Answer

14. What is the fax number for the office of SETI League? Answer

15. Who wrote the article "The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?" Answer

16. What is the new name for the One Hectare Telescope or 1hT? Answer

17. Who is the host of the weekly radio show of the SETI Institute, "Are we Alone?" Answer

18. Where and when is the Bioastronomy 2002 conference taking place? Answer

19. Who is the Chief Executive Officer of the SETI Institute? Answer

20. In 1974, a binary code message was beamed from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico heading to galaxy M13. If an alien civilization received the message and sent one back, in how many years would we receive it? Answer