What has changed, as far as Dr Shostak is concerned, is a growing sense that first contact is inevitable.

肖斯塔克认为，已经改变的是，人们越来越感觉到，首次接触是不可避免的。

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Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, also was cautious in calling the particles alive.

加利福尼亚州搜寻地外文明学会(SETI Institute)的资深天文学家塞思·肖斯塔克也表现得非常谨慎，并不急于将这些粒子称为生命。

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The array, half funded by Microsoft mogul Paul Allen, will search for alien signals at a clip "hundreds to thousands times faster" than current SETI projects, says Shostak.

该阵列由微软巨头保罗艾伦提供了半数资金，相对于当前SETI项目，其搜索外星信号的速度将快”成千上万倍“，肖斯塔克说。

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"I would just send the entire contents of Google 's servers, " says Shostak.

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"You're not going to send the value of Pi, " says Shostak.

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Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, speculated in 2011 that there could be 30, 000 habitable worlds within 1, 000 light-years of Earth, a minuscule distance by galactic standards.

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