The Full Form of META is Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay.
The Mega-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay, known by its acronym as META, led by Harvard’s Paul Horowitz and aided by The Planetary Society, could only devote a few minutes to any particular star.
The same was true of the follow-on BETA (Billion-channel Extraterrestrial Assay), while targeted searches like Phoenix, led by Jill Tarter and using facilities at Green Bank (West Virginia), the Parkes 64-meter dish in Australia and the 300 meter radio telescope at Arecibo, still observed targets for less than an hour. The problem with this is that there are numerous reasons why an extraterrestrial signal might be intermittent.
META
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Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay
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