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Written by NHC
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Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:49 |
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Last week, a friend of mine took me out to look at the night sky through his
telescope. At the highest magnification, I was surprised to see that
because of the (normally imperceptible) rotation of the earth, Jupiter was
zooming across the field of view. Obviously, for that to happen, I had to
be looking at an exceedingly small portion of the sky. Yet even in that
small area, I could see a few stars.
I came away impressed by how MANY of those teeny-tiny areas there are up in
the sky, and I came to understand the difficulties facing the SETI (Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project, which faces the daunting task of
scanning all the radio frequencies at each of those tiny points in the sky,
searching for signs of Somebody Out There.
I'd like some hacker to design an inexpensive (non-tracking) antenna-and-
receiver whichs plugs into a personal computer, then spread the plans and
related software through the networks (InterNet, GEnie, etc.). Then, I'd
like him to set up a BBS somewhere in North America which would serve as a
clearing-house for information and frequency/coordinate assignments.
This idea would appeal very much to my friend James, who is fascinated by
space, and who ALSO has the feeling that when he leaves for work every day,
his expensive home computer should be DOING something!
Just THINK of the excess computing power we have out there, folks! Wouldn't
it be wonderful if space fans everywhere could actually PARTICIPATE IN THE
EXPLORATION OF SPACE? True, they'd only monitor one frequency, across one
razor-thin strip of sky, but they'd be DOING something about space instead
of just dreaming about it.
We have all that computing power. We have all that people power. We could
use it.
And if it succeeded, it would transform the world!
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