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Duke Dailey Send message Joined: 3 Jun 05 Posts: 14 Credit: 5,053 RAC: 0	Message 493904 - Posted: 30 Dec 2006, 17:27:28 UTC This should be a multiplatform search with low-res optics and Plasma waveform data. Most humbly. ID: 493904 ·
Misfit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0	Message 494242 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 1:41:32 UTC - in response to Message 493904.   Last modified: 31 Dec 2006, 1:42:13 UTC This should be a multiplatform search with low-res optics and Plasma waveform data. See the PlanetQuest project. Radio SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is the effort to detect narrow-band radio signals. Nothing known other than technology (i.e., a radio station) can make narrow-band signals—that is, signals that you can tune into and out of with just a turn or two of the radio dial. Optical SETI uses the same reasoning, but here again apparently only technology can produce light pulses that last a billionth (nano) of a second (although stars can collapse to make a millisecond pulsar that can pulse a thousand times per second). Since PlanetQuest will be using only the red part of the star’s light to detect the transits of planets across their stars, we plan to "beam-split" (divide off) the blue light and send it to our nano-second diode detectors to see at the same time if any of those stars are sending billionth-of-a-second pulses toward us, as well. Thus you, the PlanetQuester, will be looking for planets and extraterrestrial technology at the same time! me@rescam.org ID: 494242 ·

 
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