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2024年4月13日发(作者:lucractive)

2022考研英语阅读寻找外星人

Searching for aliens

探寻外星人

The wow factor

防止再次意外

A new citizen-science project will improve thechances of finding ET

一个新的平民科学项目可以增大找到地外才智的机会

EVER since 1993, when funding from America s space agency, NASA, was cut,

the Search forExtraterrestrial Intelligence, which scans the sky looking for radio

signals from intelligentaliens, has been inventive in its methods.

自从1993年,探寻地外才智在失去了美国航天局的资助后,开拓了一个新的的讨论

途径。

In particular, it was one of the pioneers of the field of citizen science, in which

interestedamateurs are recruited to help professionals crunch data.

详细来说,这个新途径是平民科学的先驱之一,它邀请感到饶有兴趣的外行人来关心

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专家处理海量数据。

In 1999 it started SETIhome, an application that uses spare processing power

onvolunteers computers to sift the information generated by its radio telescopes.

1999年,在家探寻地外才智项目启动了,它通过一个应用程序利用志愿者的电脑上闲

置的计算资源来筛选来自射频望远镜的信息。

These days, SETIhome boasts more than 1m users.

今日,在家探寻地外才智已经号称拥有超过100万的用户。

On February 29th the SETI Institute launched another citizen-science project.

2月29号,探寻地外才智协会启动了一个新的平民科学项目。

This time, though, its researchers are less interested in the digital computers

on volunteers desks than in the biological ones between their ears.

这次,讨论人员们更加感到饶有兴趣的是志愿者的双眼,而不是他们桌上的计算机。

实时探寻地外才智,

SETILive, as the project is called, hopes to use the pattern-recognition

capabilities of brainsto distinguish interesting signals from the cacophony of

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