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SETI to Upgrade Software, Telescope
Professor_Quail writes "Space.com reports that SETI@home is planning to transfer it's operations from Arecibo to another telescope in Australia, where they say lies an increased chance of finding extra-terrestrials. The Australian telescope is more powerful, with a wider view of the sky; scientists are betting that this new telescope will also help find signs of 'shriveling' black holes."
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"Thank god the Americans got the puritans and we got the convicts".
- Editorial from an Australian newspaper with reference to Bill Clinton's afairs
"It seems like if we're looking for aliens, the last place we'd like to look is in the middle of a black hole. "
Well, you see black holes compress matter- it's like a thick-spot in space, since a mass the size of Jupiter can fit into the size of a strawberry. Imagine for a moment how many thousands of alien civilizations could fit inside these black holss...
All of them screaming, "LET US OUTTA HERE! IT'S CRAMPED AND SOMEONE FARTED!"
Yeah, I'm sure that's it. :)
It's probably signalling a change of just what kind of actual research-program we'll be running, but it'll look the same. One thing bothers me though: higher-res means slower conversion of the data. Instead of a year to examine a year's data, it could be decades...
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Absolutely: Australia, where according to the article there is an increased chance to find extraterrestrials. I don't see why they didn't search in Australia to begin with. On second thought, perhaps they first had to hone their detection technology so that they can distinguish native Australians from the aliens. Yeah, that must be it.
from the dish...
It turns out it's the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere.
What's it doing in the middle of a sheep paddock?
The Americans spend billions of dollars to let us watch a man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes. How do you feel about that?
A lot better before you opened your trap.
sums things up quite nicely I think. baa!
What is the point in SETI?
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/me removes tongue from cheek...
Certain parts of society are already liasing with aliens, and we have been for some time. Wake up and smell the coffee!
Yes and those documentaries, MIB and MIB2, were fascinating, weren't they?
We're decoding the message fron the aliens now sir. They say "Watch .. Out .. For .. That .. Asteroi--"...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
we have observed pretty much everything that is visible from that location.
Except for the aliens?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
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Twice as fast!
Perhaps instead we should upgrade the aliens to make them easier to detect.
Table-ized A.I.