New Program to Search for (Intelligent)Extraterrestrial Life

...Astronomers plan to search 1,000 nearby stars for television broadcasts and other signals that could indicate extraterrestrial life, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said Monday.

The project, planned for early 2008, would use a new radio telescope to search for radio traffic similar to that found on Earth.

Current efforts to find extraterrestrial life look for messages deliberately beamed across space -- an approach that would miss any civilization that does not advertise its existence as Earth's does...