Dan Werthimer is director of the SERENDIP SETI program and chief scientist of SETI@home at the University of California, Berkeley. He was associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and has been a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University of St. Charles in Marseille, Eotvos University in Budapest, and taught at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. Werthimer has published numerous scientific papers in the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education, and is editor of the book "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe
August, 19th, 2004
Astroseti : Is searching for ETs still considered a matter of fools?
Dan Werthimer : There are several powerful seti searches today, in Australia, Italy, Argentina and the USA, carried out by outstanding scientists. These scientists are not fools -- they are attempting to answer an important question, "Are we alone?".
Astroseti : SERENDIP is the most veteran active SETI program. It began in 1979 at Hat Creek, moved several times to other telescopes and finally started working at Arecibo in 1992. It seems now you'll have to wait until the long dreamt radiotelescope is built on the dark side of the moon before moving again to a better telescope.
Dan Werthimer : Radio astronomers are designing a new telescope, the square kilometer array (SKA), which will have the equivalent collecting area of ten arecibo telescopes, and be able to point at many places on the sky simultaneously. Model telescopes are being built and evaluated in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, China, India and the USA.
read the very Good annd intersesting Story
Interview with Dan Werthimer
Sir Ulli
August, 19th, 2004
Astroseti : Is searching for ETs still considered a matter of fools?
Dan Werthimer : There are several powerful seti searches today, in Australia, Italy, Argentina and the USA, carried out by outstanding scientists. These scientists are not fools -- they are attempting to answer an important question, "Are we alone?".
Astroseti : SERENDIP is the most veteran active SETI program. It began in 1979 at Hat Creek, moved several times to other telescopes and finally started working at Arecibo in 1992. It seems now you'll have to wait until the long dreamt radiotelescope is built on the dark side of the moon before moving again to a better telescope.
Dan Werthimer : Radio astronomers are designing a new telescope, the square kilometer array (SKA), which will have the equivalent collecting area of ten arecibo telescopes, and be able to point at many places on the sky simultaneously. Model telescopes are being built and evaluated in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, China, India and the USA.
read the very Good annd intersesting Story
Interview with Dan Werthimer
Sir Ulli
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