Posted on 07/23/2004 9:15:08 PM PDT by ckilmer
I am up to 517 data units on my SETI at Home...
Still find myself staring at the screen hoping that maybe someday... something....
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I do SETI with a radio telescope.
Have you signed up with the FR group??
I also do SETI@Home with one of my logging computers. :-)
Disregard earlier question - just saw ya...
great post! bump!
As soon as I build another box, though...
Some of us are still searching for intelligent life on this planet.
Cool! :-)
My radio telescope is looking at over 3 million channels simultaneously. We are in the process of upgrading to 30 million.
Jeeeeeez!!!
BOINC-Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Predictor@Home is here but is shut down for maintenance at this time, it is in Alpha-test.
One problem with such an estimation is that it depends on alien civilizations using radio waves instead of gravity waves for communication.
If our current level of science is wrong, and if gravity propagation is actually faster than radio waves, then advanced civilizations may not be using radio at all, except for a brief period early in their development.
And that would explain why we haven't detected *any* off-planet life after all of these years of looking and listening. We've been looking at light and listening to radio; they've been chatting with Gravity.
5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Everyone knows first contact doesn't occur until 2063...
If our current level of science is wrong, and if gravity propagation is actually faster than radio waves, then advanced civilizations may not be using radio at all, except for a brief period early in their development.
From all indications, tests, and theories, gravity waves travel at exactly the speed of light. General Relativity precludes information from being transferred faster than light.
Also modulating gravity waves would require enormous energy. Would be far easier and more energy efficient to use EM. Occam's Razor.
I don't think so..any life in the universe would have been fried long ago by the intense gamma ray impulse generated by black hole collapse....that and well distributed throughout the universe.
Thanks :-)
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