2015考研英语阅读寻找外星人_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读寻找外星人

　　今天，在家寻找地外智慧已经号称拥有超过100万的用户。

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

　　2月29号，寻找地外智慧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，研究人员们更加感兴趣的是志愿者的双眼，而不是他们桌上的计算机。实时寻找地外智慧，

　　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，它希望利用我们大脑的模式识别能力来辨认出夹杂在由地球原住民产生的信号中的有趣信号，实时地。

　　The basic idea behind SETI is to look for distinctive radio-frequency emissions that mightcome from advanced aliens rather than natural sources like stars.

　　寻找地外智慧的基本想法是寻找来自高级地外生命而不是其他自然来源如恒星的射频信号。

　　To do this, the SETI Institute uses an instrument called the Allen Telescope Arraya groupof 42 small radio-telescope dishes in California, partly paid for by the eponymous co-founderof Microsoft.