Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future
It\u2019s a fallish day in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, the rural home of Green Bank Observatory and the world\u2019s largest fully steerable telescope. Rippled clouds hang low over the site\u2019s hulking 100-meter radio dish, itself undergirded and overhung by bright white scaffolding. The browning leaves are nearly gone. And the visitor center director, Sherry McCarty, has agreed to give me the astronomy center\u2019s new SETI tour ($40, reservations required).