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Joel Send message Joined: 31 Oct 08 Posts: 104 Credit: 4,838,348 RAC: 13 |
I imagine most of us here heard about the Allen Telescope Array's hibernation a few months ago. Now the SETI Institute (no relation to SETI@home) is asking for public donations to help reopen it. https://setistars.org/ Of course if you plan to help out, don't forget that SETI@home needs monetary support as well. |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Yes, this project also needs help. Donate to SETI@home here; http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php. Or there is a link on the front page of this website! John. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30638 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Looks like the SETI institute got their cash. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/seti-institute-allen-telescope-array-to-go-back-online-in-september.html |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20258 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Looks like the SETI institute got their cash. Of course, $200,000 isn't enough to fund a project of this scope. Pierson said SETI is in negotiations with the Air Force to continue to collect information on orbital debris. By charging for that service, SETI may be able to earn enough money to keep listening for signs of life. So how does that work? I thought the ATA was a passive receiving array. Aside: Has any science been published from ATA results? Go for scientific funding? Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
Looks like the SETI institute got their cash. They got their money alright, sounds like Hadden Industries stepped in to save the day. Id like to propose an alternate hypothesis if i may! And I'd like you to bring your considerable scientific expertise to bear on it. To am......fake a signal from Vega, what would you need? ........"You would need a satellite to transmit the signal....But it would be impossible to simulate something......." You would need a satellite, and you would need launch capabilities to put the satellite into orbit, and of coarse, the message itself. To put something like this together, so complex, drawing on so many different disiplins.......Would be impossible. Impossible!! Impossible!! Is there anyone that might have been up to the challenge? Someone with extraordinary technical expertise, enormous financial resources, someone perverse enough, eccentric enough to have come up with the idea in the first place? "Hadden??????" S.R. Hadden!!! "Your implying that this was all some kind of a hoax?.....That he engineered this...." S.R. Hadden,.... a legendary power broker and manipulator in perhaps his final bid for immortality. Maybe he wanted to explore and exploit experimental technologies and get the governments of the world to pick up the tab. Perhaps this was his final altruistic gesture, to unite the world in one common goal, maybe all of the above. S.R. Hadden, a brilliant and complicated man! Guys are ye familiar with the scientific precept of Occam's razor? John. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20258 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
You could do some fiendish trickery from here on earth... Just bounce a few signals off the moon! Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20258 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Deleted - duplicate post. See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Hopefully the little I sent them went to a good spot. I'd like to see a breakdown of their budget one day when I get the time. I got their most recent magazine and it had some 150+ researchers/scientists and so forth. Their overhead must be enormous. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
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