Watch out for an influx of SETI users...

[Wolfie]

They had a show on the history channel tonight. And they did a large amount of discussion about SETI on the show. May we see a influx of new members?

Did anyone else see this tonight?

Wolfie

 

[BigFatCow]

we may see more members join seti but im guessing none of them will join Team AT.

 

[Wolfie]

Don't ever say that. 😀 They are just talking about SETI in general. So far, they haven't said anything about DC. But maybe someone will do a search about seti. Find the SETI site, join SETI, watch the team pass other teams, get hooked on stats and want to be part of the best team around. 😀

Yah never know. 😀 I think it would be pretty coo.

Wolfie

 

[networkman]

I was playing Counterstrike.. as badly as I was doing, I would've been much better off to be watching the show. 😕

 

[Unforgiven]

was the show showing the seti institute and talking about how nasa was very involved in the early days? if so ive seen this program and it made me so stoked that i added 4 new crunchers the next day!

 

[Wolfie]

Yes it was. They where also talking about the rover projects. And weather or not life is outside our world. And other sat that they launched in the 70's.

Wolfie

 

[Ronin]

Hopefully some of that influx will head our way. 🙂 Or maybe generate some higher up interest..who knows. 🙂

 

[Unforgiven]

for anyone involved in the seti @ home project i recommend the program to anyone. i found it very informative and wished it was longer so i could learn more!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Did they mention anything about how much longer SETI would go on?

 

[Wolfie]

They where saying that SETI almost wasn't the last few years because of funding. But they said that they are installing new dishes around the world to make the size of space that is scanned larger.

I did Find this book about the future of SETI.

One page I found kinda said the same thing as the show.

The scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which began with a simple experiment forty years ago, is undergoing rapid change. Scientists who participate in this research are more optimistic than ever before that they could find signals from space that would indicate that we're not alone.

They are bolstered in this view by several recent developments. In the past five years, astronomers have found that many stars have planets. At least 3 to 5 percent of Sun-like stars exhibit wobbles that are caused by orbiting worlds. The real percentage of stars with planets is undoubtedly much higher, and it is probable that tens of billions of planets are strewn throughout the star fields of our galaxy.

In addition, there is growing evidence for liquid water both on Mars and under the icy crust of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Liquid water is considered the essential ingredient for life, and it's quite possible that biology has sprung up on either or both of these worlds. If so, that would be compelling evidence that life is commonplace in the cosmos.

While SETI experiments have traditionally been carried out by borrowing or buying observing time on massive radio telescopes normally used for conventional astronomical research, that scheme is now changing. In Australia, a major SETI search known as Southern SERENDIP is "piggybacking" on a survey of the galactic plane being made with the Parkes 64 meter telescope, the largest such instrument south of the equator. The SETI search is done simultaneously with the galactic survey work, and thus SETI and conventional radio astronomy can co-exist to make the best use of precious telescope time.

In California, the SETI Institute received $12.5 million in donations to start construction of a new radio instrument, the Allen Telescope Array, which can be used 24 hours a day for simultaneous observations by radio astronomers and SETI researchers. This telescope will also be built in an entirely new way: hundreds of "satellite" dishes will be wired together to form an instrument that's the equivalent of a single, 100 meter antenna.

In addition to these vastly improved radio searches, SETI is finally gearing up to look for signals that might be sent at visible wavelengths or in the infrared. Experiments at the University of California, both Santa Cruz and Berkeley and at Harvard are now using relatively large, conventional mirror telescopes to hunt for very brief flashes of light (presumably from high-powered lasers) that other civilizations might be beaming our way.

While SETI searches to date have been limited in extent or sensitivity, the march of technology is about to change that substantially. In the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of stars - perhaps even millions - will be subject to the careful gaze of our radio and optical telescopes. It may be that the proof that we are not alone in the universe will arrive relatively soon.

Do a quick search on google. You can find a lot of stuff about seti. A lot more then I would have ever thought.

Wolfie

 

[wischeez]

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