Eric Korpela, the director of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at Home at the Berkeley SETI research center at UC Berkeley, displays a photo of the Green Bank radio telescope in W. Virginia, one of the two the team uses in their resear

Eric Korpela, the director of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at Home at the Berkeley SETI research center at UC Berkeley, displays a photo of the Green Bank radio telescope in W. Virginia, one of the two the team uses in their research as seen on Fri. July 17, 2015, in Berkley, Calif. (Photo by Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)