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本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑 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 hel 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专家处理海量数据。 In 1999 it started SETIhome, an a lication that uses spare processing power onvolunteers computers to sift the information generated by its radio telescopes. 1 / 5 本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑 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 interference generated by thedenizens of planet Earthand to do so in real time. 就像它的名称所说，它盼望利用我们大脑的模式识别力 量来辨认出夹杂在由地球原住民产生的信号中的好玩信号， 2 / 5