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.
这类外星智能探索研究的最棒之处在于，可能已经掌握了这些数据。
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.
这般哗众取宠的手段，也使得对不明飞行物和外星人智力的合法科研声誉扫地。
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.
与他的双胞胎兄弟詹姆斯，以及詹姆斯的儿子多米尼克一道，本福德重新思考外星生物探索，或者是SETI计划，（译者注：所有旨在对地外文明进行搜索的所有计划的统称：外星生物探索），如今欢庆它走过50年的岁月。

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