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Harvard telescope will search for extraterrestrial light signals
Boston.com News ^
| April 11, 2006
| Mark Jewell
Posted on 04/11/2006 7:27:57 PM PDT by CurlyBill
BOSTON --A new telescope at an observatory outside Boston will become a key tool in the search for extraterrestrials as scientists try to detect light signals from distant civilizations.
An optical telescope dedicated Tuesday at the Oak Ridge Observatory, about 35 miles west of Boston, is the first to be used exclusively for a project called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: astronomy; extraterrestrial; light; radioastronomy; seti; signal; signals; telescope
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:27:58 PM PDT
by
CurlyBill
To: CurlyBill
First they need to aim it at John Kerry, just to test it out.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:29:15 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: CurlyBill
Scientists were startled to receive this message from Alpha Centauri:
To: darkwing104
First they need to aim it at John Kerry, just to test it out.LOL!! Not if they are looking for intelligent life!
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:46:38 PM PDT
by
CurlyBill
(Democratic Party = Surrender Party)
To: CurlyBill
LOL!! Not if they are looking for intelligent life!If the scientists did find any they will have to recalibrate it.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:20 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: CurlyBill
"... 35 miles west of Boston ..."
Isn't that basically in the city's outer suburbs? Wouldn't there be a problem with "light pollution"?
To: darkwing104
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posted on
04/11/2006 10:50:34 PM PDT
by
at bay
("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
To: CurlyBill
I wondered whatever happened to optical SETI.
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posted on
04/11/2006 10:57:01 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: RadioAstronomer
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:31:32 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
To: CurlyBill
Sure hope they remove their head from their sphincter before they begin their search.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:35:58 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
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