41) Message boards : SETI@home Science : The Why of METI and SETI (Message 934437) Posted 19 Sep 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: The Why of METI and SETI article by Larry Klaes Today are 50th of Searching for Interstellar Communications by Giuseppe Cocconi & Philip Morrison 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

42) Message boards : SETI@home Science : First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed + 50th Cocconi & Morrison (Message 933783) Posted 16 Sep 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: First Rocky World Confirmed Around Another Star September 19 = 50th Searching for Interstellar Communications on Nature by Cocconi & Morrison SETI go running! ;-) 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi SETI go running! ;-)

43) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Philosophy and Science: from Galileo to SETI (Message 931301) Posted 6 Sep 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Sunday september 13, 2009 2009 International Year of Astronomy Promoted from ARI (Italian Radioamateur Association) Melfi Meeting "Galileo, 4 centuries from perspicillum (telescope) to radio astronomy" Sala Mostre, Palazzo di Città piazza Umberto I° Melfi (PZ, Italy) h. 10.00 - Technique of radio connection via meteor scatter Chairman Onofrio Barisiello IZ8DWG h. 10.30 - The Sun, our star Chairman Giovanni Lorusso IK7ELN h. 11.00 - Philosophy and Science: from Galileo to SETI with 110 slide Chairman Bruno Moretti Turri IK2WQA With the patronage of: Academia Philosophiae Naturalis COTA, Carabinieri On The Air ERAC, European Radio Astronomy Club UAI, Unione Astrofili Italiani, S.d.R. Radioastronomia IARA, Italian Amateur Radio Astronomy SETI ITALIA "G. Cocconi" 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

44) Message boards : SETI@home Science : turning earth into a radio telescope (Message 927777) Posted 21 Aug 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: An italian small project coming soon for 2012. AstroSat & SkyWave: Two italian amateur space telescope, optical and radio 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

45) Message boards : SETI@home Science : METI: Send a text message to aliens. (Message 926400) Posted 16 Aug 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: This site is collecting messages that will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, a planet outside our Solar System which may support life. Comments are moderated: inappropriate messages will de rejected, and messages must be in English (so we can evaluate them). Register here to send your message before the deadline: 5pm Monday 24 August 2009 Sydney time (07:00 GMT Monday 24 August 2009) HELLO FROM EARTH 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

46) Message boards : SETI@home Science : First Results From The Allen Telescope Array (Message 925832) Posted 13 Aug 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: From MIT Technology Review First Results From The Allen Telescope Array No word from ET (yet) but some useful data that could help solve one the great mysteries about star formation. 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

47) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mark your calendar for the Seti 10th Anniversary Party (Message 894613) Posted 14 May 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: I'm SETI@home user since may 15, 1999. Prosit to all! "The reader may seek to consign these speculations wholly to the domain of science-fiction. We submit, rather, that the foregoing line of argument demonstrates that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present the means of detecting them is now at hand. Few will deny the profound importance, practical and philosophical, which the detection of interstellar communications would have. We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero." from Searching for Interstellar Communications by Giuseppe Cocconi & Philip Morrison - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York from Nature, Vol. 184, Number 4690, pp. 844-846, September 19, 1959 September 19, 2009 = 50 years 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

48) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Fun with 618,813 pulses... (Message 878289) Posted 22 Mar 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Very interesting post, Eric. Thanks you. 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

49) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BOINC & SETI on Facebook thread (Message 871847) Posted 4 Mar 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Also Fans of "Are We Alone" from SETI Radio (by SETI Institute) http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1356281286&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=58343701553 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

50) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BOINC & SETI on Facebook thread (Message 870283) Posted 28 Feb 2009 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Are you a Facebook user? Join us: Fans - SETI@home http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000004&id=1356281286&gr=102&sid=5d6e4b15a81ed30a0e89c5797b099803#/pages/SETIhome/16063264533?sid=5d6e4b15a81ed30a0e89c5797b099803&ref=s Group - SETI@home http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1356281286#/group.php?gid=2204554986 Fans - BOINC http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000004&id=1356281286&gr=102&sid=5d6e4b15a81ed30a0e89c5797b099803#/pages/BOINC/32672338584?ref=s Group - BOINC Researchers http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1356281286#/group.php?gid=2208317473 Support Cause - SETI Institute http://apps.facebook.com/causes/71995/40354203?m=611088da Support Cause - SETI The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence http://apps.facebook.com/causes/851/40354203?m=611088da Support Cause - The Planetary Society http://apps.facebook.com/causes/223012/40354203?m=611088da Support Cause - Stop Light Pollution http://apps.facebook.com/causes/7839/40354203?m=611088da Group - SETI ITALIA G. Cocconi http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50530861391 Add as your friend - Bruno Moretti IK2WQA http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1356281286 Please, using this thread for add your (or your BOINC team) Facebook URL-address for international SETIzens friendship. 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club

51) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETIzens Sign for Defend Science Statement (Message 845780) Posted 27 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Celebrate Darwin Day 2009: Stand Up for the Science of Evolution This year, February 12, 2009, is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. 2009 is also the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s “On The Origin of Species by Natural Selection”, a monumental work and tremendous scientific achievement. If you could imagine a world without Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection, it would be a world impoverished in every dimension. Modern medicine would be crippled, without a deep understanding of how to prevent infections that rapidly evolve and grow resistant to treatment; we would have a greatly diminished understanding of the threats to biodiversity from alien species and habitat alternations. We would not appreciate the “grandeur in this view of life”, to use Darwin’s own words – the beauty and amazement of how all of life developed through natural processes. And science itself would be weakened in an almost incalculable way. There is evidence of evolution everywhere life goes on. We have a sweeping, astonishing and scientific panorama of how life developed from single cells to all the complexity and diversity that we know today. The fossil record, once thought to have too many “gaps,” grows more complete every year. We have a synthesis of modern genetics and Darwin’s mechanism of natural selection that would delight and amaze Darwin, if he were somehow able to see it. This decisively confirms and deepens our understanding of natural selection by showing the source of the endless variation among individual organisms and how it is inherited. Darwin went up against the entrenched religious prejudices of his day (and ours), applied the basic principles he discovered to human beings, and suggested that human ancestors evolved into Homo sapiens in Africa, even though no fossil evidence of this existed in his day. Now immense evidence of all kinds has been discovered, and there can be no doubt that humans evolved from a common ancestor of African primates. The concept of biological evolution is one of the key pillars of modern science. Public access to understanding evolution has in many ways become the arena in which the role of science and the scientific method in society is being fought out today. It should be a matter of grave concern to everyone that there are powerful and continuing creationist attacks on the ability of children in public schools to learn core truths of evolution. It should be a matter of public outrage that museums and public institutions like science centers exist in an atmosphere where they feel unable to openly talk about and explain evolution; that in a number of state legislatures and in state boards of education, a new round of attacks on teaching evolution is in the works; that a bill attacking evolution has been signed into law in Louisiana. It is not simply evolution, but science that is under assault. The Bush administration brought an eight year attack on science that enormously intensified this poisonous and deadly atmosphere. The result was more than a series of bad policies, even though many were very bad indeed, but an assault on science itself, the method of inquiry which has enabled people to understand and transform the world in very powerful and amazing ways. And the Bush years greatly strengthened the Christian fundamentalist movement which today has great reach and influence. While Obama says he personally believes in evolution, he has made embracing this movement a core element of his view of “healing divisions”. Some creationist forces have clearly stated their aim goes far beyond attacking evolution; they seek to purge society of the “disease” of systematically seeking natural explanations for natural phenomena. We do not need to seek unity with this - we need a determined fight to defend science. It is up to us. All of this makes Darwin Day 2009 even more important – as a celebration of Charles Darwin’s magnificent scientific achievement and as a contribution towards a society in which science, scientific discoveries and the scientific method are celebrated, valued, and popularized. Let\'s have a Darwin Bicentennial with society-wide impact. We strongly encourage everyone to help organize and participate in Darwin Day celebrations around the country, and circulate this statement everywhere, distribute it to friends and colleagues, post it on the web. Defend Science (Share with us your ideas and plans; we will post Darwin Bicenntennial news on our website. Contact us at mail@defendscience.com . This Defend Science Darwin Day Statement is available at our website including in downloadable pdf format. Go to: http://www.defendscience.org/ds_commentary12.html ) 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CHRISTMAS WISHES TO ALL (Message 844070) Posted 23 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Happy Xmas (war is over) & Happy New Year! 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

53) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Orbital radio telescope (Message 842507) Posted 20 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: For totally RFI-free radio astronomy is necessary radio telescope (or array) on the farside of the Moon. See Lunar Farside Radio Laboratory by SETI Permanent Study Group, International Academy of Astronautics 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Messier 13 Astronomical Observatory, Tradate (Italy) Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

54) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe SETI: Trade stories with other SETI@home users . . . (Message 838015) Posted 8 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Thanks Dr. C.E.T.I.! Remembering Prof. Giuseppe Cocconi in italian language. Ricordando il Prof. Giuseppe Cocconi in italiano Searching for Interstellar Communications Cocconi-Morrison original article by Nature (in english) Cercando comunicazioni interstellari Lo storico articolo di Cocconi-Morrison in italiano 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

55) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI father Giuseppe Cocconi passed away on November (Message 838012) Posted 8 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Remembering Prof. Giuseppe Cocconi in italian language. Ricordando il Prof. Giuseppe Cocconi in italiano Searching for Interstellar Communications Cocconi-Morrison original article by Nature (in english) Cercando comunicazioni interstellari Lo storico articolo di Cocconi-Morrison in italiano 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

56) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI father Giuseppe Cocconi passed away on November (Message 837881) Posted 8 Dec 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: Giuseppe Cocconi, father (with Philip Morrison) of First SETI article on Nature, september 1959 "Searching for Interstellar Communications" and a central figure in particle physics and cosmic rays, passed away on 9 November aged 94. Giuseppe Cocconi (1914 - 2008) In "Searching for Interstellar Communications" Cocconi & Morrison showed that the best frequency to search for signals from intelligent extraterrestrials is 1420 MHz, corresponding to the 21-centimeter line of neutral hydrogen. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) based on the Cocconi-Morrison paper (as SETI@home & Astropulse) is still going on today. 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

57) Message boards : SETI@home Science : UFO's Over Sacramento California (Message 835756) Posted 30 Nov 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: looks like someone sent up some christmas lights Oh! Yeah! Santa Klaus and reindeers! Happy Xmas (war is over)! 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA - brmoret_at_libero.it Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

58) Message boards : Politics : US Goverment secretly Sabotaging SETI at Areceibo (Message 832944) Posted 21 Nov 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: This is the official position of science & SETI@home: "First, our alien friends could travel in a space ship and visit us. That would be a great method of communication -- face to face. Unfortunately, despite all the alleged Roswells and alien abductions and UFO sightings, there is not a single shred of scientific evidence that aliens have ever visited the earth. Not one. The amount of energy and time necessary to travel between the stars is so immense that a more "economical" method is mandated. Doing some simple calculations, you can prove that even if someone could invent a ship with the most efficient type of engine ("Star Trek" fans will be happy to know that this involves matter and antimatter!) that a trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, with a twenty-year round-trip travel time would use enough energy to power over a million houses for over thirty million years! And this trip would only take a few people as passengers! This is not an economical method to communicate because this amount of energy, at today's costs, would cost well over $30 quadrillion. Can you imagine any alien government allocating this kind of resource to send a few of their people for a friendly visit? Of course, they could send out thousands or millions of lightweight probes announcing their existence and the probes could report back their findings, but this would still be very costly in both time and energy. Even though we would like to believe in warp drive, interdimensional shifting, and all the other wonders of science fiction, they are just that, fiction. [...] Any data collected will be made available to the scientific community for further analysis. As you can see, in spite of all the "conspiracy theories" that abound in the science fringe communities, there will be no attempt to hide any data or keep it from the public eye. With a little luck, we may know within our lifetime if we are alone in our galaxy. I'm hopeful that we will find many friends out there." Source: SETI@home http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/radio_search_1.html 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

59) Message boards : Politics : US Goverment secretly Sabotaging SETI at Areceibo (Message 830184) Posted 14 Nov 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: For UFOs believers, logic is an useless optional! First problem: but... if the aliens is here now, why Viking Warrior is a SETI@home user? The answer my friend required IQ > 1500 or blowin' in the wind! Second problem: if US government cover-up Arecibo aliens... are Dan Werthimer, David Anderson, Eric Korpela & Co. that cover-up Arecibo aliens discovery! Are SETI@home (accomplice of BUSH government) that cover-up Arecibo ET discovery! ROTFL 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

60) Message boards : Politics : US Goverment secretly Sabotaging SETI at Areceibo (Message 829888) Posted 13 Nov 2008 by Bruno Moretti IK2WQA Post: WATCH THIS !! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fC0ZBAjREOM "tested IQ of 135" (above or under zero?) this is do it yourself eroticism (in public). 73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA Founder SETI@home Berkeley's Staff Friends Club Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

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