The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Put On Hold

Now, the rest of the SETI Institute and all my astrobiology colleagues and their fantastic projects, those are not impacted, however it is to tell the truth the search for evidence of someone else's research that's on hold right now.

And at that time this database, where we're trying to reach out to folks who are knowledgeable in digital signal processing and say, hey, come on in. We've been looking for years for one particular type of signal. It after all makes a lot of sense. But like as not now that there's enough computing power, we can expand what we're doing. We'd love your help.

DAVID: I've got a question about - you had your SETI@home project where people could use - I guess it was distributive processing of the data you've collected. We have several computers that I have been giving you guys computing time, I guess. And I was wondering if that process is after all going to be going? And, you know, as a rule, I've as well wondered has that yielded you guys results? Is that - does it work?

FLATOW: What would be the - let's say you get back up and running, and we're hoping that you do, is there a new research, is there ongoing technology that we haven't thought about that you might be able to do, new ways of listening?