tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post2012610736767229731..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: UFOs and SETIKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-46160247640587580602009-12-22T03:03:14.675-08:002009-12-22T03:03:14.675-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-11334714354236776462009-12-11T06:59:28.880-08:002009-12-11T06:59:28.880-08:00Can I call BS on the whole "Cost's a mill...Can I call BS on the whole "Cost's a million dollars" thing? That's crap. Or a whole lot of computers. Leaving a computer running SETI@Home for a year can't be more than $10. I think that's high. That's 100,000 computers. That's a lot of SETI time. Back when I used to do it, they would rank groups as to how many "packets" they analyzed. Was this school near the top? They must have been, providing such a super-computer cluster. <br /><br />Sounds like something else happened. If he REALLY did get fired over SETI@Home and not some other reason, then he clearly has a lawsuit and the union will be all over this. Frankly, if he doesn't file, then he got fired for some other reason and this is fluff to protect someone.Michael Malonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630202161643669834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-1574216015779049772009-12-06T18:45:27.922-08:002009-12-06T18:45:27.922-08:00Upon digging out some of my books from the garage:...Upon digging out some of my books from the garage:<br /><br /><b>"The Puzzle Palace"</b>, by James Bamford c.r. 1982:<br />(Page 220)<br /><br />"Since its beginnings in the mid-1950s, the secret surrounding Sugar grove has been intense. The cover story throughout the entire <br />life of the Project was that the six-hundred-foot dish was purely <br />for research and radio astronomy, permitting scientists 'to tune in <br />on radio signals as far as 38 billion light years away,' according to the local newspaper...Even today, twenty years after the enormous steel ear recieved its death notice, the blanket of secrecy around the project remains as tightly drawn as ever. The reason is that Sugar grove continues to be one of the NSA's most important--and secret-listening posts."<br /><br />Also: <b>"We Are Not Alone"</b>, by Walter Sullivan, c.r. 1964<br />(Chapter 14 - Project Ozma - Pages 197, and 198)<br /><br />"Eagerness to observe on the magic wavelength of 21 centimeters had <br />been a major factor in persuading the government of the need for a <br />national observatory and, as noted in the last chapter, the first <br />big antenna at Green Bank was designed with such observations in <br />mind. At about the time that the dish was completed, in March 1959, <br />(Frank)Drake went to a nearby grill facetiously called "Antoine's for a quick lunch with Lloyd V. Berkner, acting director of the <br />observatory and head of Associated Universities. The latter was a <br />teaming-up of nine Northwestern universities whose first job had <br />been to establish the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long <br />Island, home of the world's most powerful atom smasher."Bob Kofordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739226809252915992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-88893177053386076612009-12-06T11:08:45.090-08:002009-12-06T11:08:45.090-08:00I'm sure the SETI program has made some intere...I'm sure the SETI program has made some interesting listening finds. I think the real advances are being done by the astronomers looking for exo-planets via visual confirmation.<br /><br />Find those Earth-like planets and life will be there. Find a few of them and perhaps SETI can listen in there.Frank Stalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11823301792209882497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-84111521504902055572009-12-05T21:10:17.143-08:002009-12-05T21:10:17.143-08:00From the Wikipedia:
CETI (Communication with Extr...From the Wikipedia:<br /><br />CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a branch of SETI research that focuses on composing and deciphering messages that could theoretically be understood by another technological civilization. The best-known CETI experiment was the 1974 Arecibo message composed by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan.<br /><br />CETI research has focused on four broad areas: mathematical languages, pictorial systems such as the Arecibo message, algorithmic communication systems (ACETI) and computational approaches to detecting and deciphering 'natural' language communication.Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17280922104955532058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-13219604297489545782009-12-05T18:25:12.231-08:002009-12-05T18:25:12.231-08:00I remember when it started it was called Communica...I remember when it started it was called Communications with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (CETI), and at the time there were rumblings about a signal emminating from Tau Ceti/Omicron.<br /><br />There was a change, and it re-emerged as the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Never remembered hearing the full reasons for the change in names.<br /><br />Wasn't this also approximately the same time that Carl Sagan was an influence on the UFO investigations?Bob Kofordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739226809252915992noreply@blogger.com