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| Personal background |
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The University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory (SAL) is an instrumentality of the
UW department of Astronomy. Motivated by the desire to carry out astronomical observations
of the sorts which cannot be carried out from the ground because of the opacity of the atmosphere
at various wavelengths, professor Art Code and other members of the faculty founded the Laboratory
in the 1950's, which was instrumental in the origins and subsequent development
of space-based Astronomy. Research in space has included experiments on X-15s, the 1st OAO satellite, one of the five original Hubble instruments (the High Speed Photometer), and the WUPPE telescope on the Astro-1 and -2 Shuttle payloads. The Laboratory continues to build instrumentation for space- and
ground-based astronomy, in service to the department and to the Astronomical community at large.
Web page: http://www.sal.wisc.edu
I have had seti@home running on many of the laboratories computers for a number of years
now, though I had to pull the Windows version from most machines early on, as it was hogging the
CPU in many cases. I am just now starting to deploy the BOINC-managed version.
-- Richard Bonomo, staff electrical engineer and systems administrator
bonomoXXXX at salXXX.wisc.edu (drop the X's, use @ where appropriate)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. How can we not, given our name?
2. Putting unused CPU time to useful purpose in this way is a capital idea.
3. It seems to me which should be thinking of monitoring the VHF and UHF bands,
where an earth-like planet would likely have its first televsion transmissions, for the same reason
that we did, in an attempt to receive their domestic broadcast communications and VHF RADAR. (I
do not know if we could do this from Earth, though, given the local noise. Has anyone run the numbers on this?) It seems far more likely to me that we will pick up some other civilization's version of Ozzie and Harriet or the DEW line than a beacon intended to be received.
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