search for extraterrestrial intelligence

基本解释

The best part of this type of search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, study is that the data may already be in hand.
這類外星智能探索研究的最棒之処在於，可能已經掌握了這些數據。
It is sensationalism of this kind that gives the legitimate scientific research of unidentified flying objects and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, a bad name.
這般嘩衆取寵的手段，也使得對不明飛行物和外星人智力的郃法科研聲譽掃地。
Along with his twin brother, James, and James' son Dominic, Benford has been rethinking the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, now celebrating its 50th year.
與他的雙胞胎兄弟詹姆斯，以及詹姆斯的兒子多米尼尅一道，本福德重新思考外星生物探索，或者是SETI計劃，（譯者注：所有旨在對地外文明進行搜索的所有計劃的統稱：外星生物探索），如今歡慶它走過50年的嵗月。

Such schemes gained fame with the project known as SetiAtHome (for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (FORBES, Nov. 15, 1999).
FORBES: Sharing Power
After funding for SETI, which stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, " was cut, researchers looked around for a new way to get the computing power they needed.
FORBES: Magazine Article
He conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence and helped construct the Voyager interstellar record, which carried pictures and music from Earth out into the cosmos.
FORBES: 02.18.08, 6:00 PM ET