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New and Improved SETI
nomrniceguy writes "The new year is sure to be memorable for SETI, as glossy new instruments come on-line.
At Harvard University, a survey telescope designed to sweep massive swaths of the sky in a hunt for extraterrestrial laser flashes is becoming a reality. In Puerto Rico, the famed Arecibo telescope is getting a new feed that will speed up searches by seven times. And in California, the SETI Institute and Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Lab will soon be scanning the star-clotted realms of the inner Milky Way with the first-stage implementation of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA)
and will eventually boast 350 antennas, each 20 feet in diameter. This impressive antenna farm will be spread over about a half square-mile of terrain."
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The population of this planet is rising at such a rapid rate that I seriously doubt that the quality of life will be worth living for in 50 years. If anything, we should be using distributed computing power to find new ways to introduce population controls. This could be accomplished through either mind control devices or undetectable birth control drugs in the water supply. In conclusion, please don't breed.
THIS ACCOUNT IS OFFICIALLY RETIRED/RETARDED.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
Funny, not too long ago, there was a sense of noblesse oblige--in a sense, yes, you DO have to give something away when you reside in the social stratosphere. This is the same thing that got Martha a major glove-slapping in court when she had her lawyers recite a litany of her charitable contributions and the response was that it is not extraordinary for someone in that position to do those things, but rather it would be extraordinary for such a person _not_ to do those things. It is expected and considered not only foolish (for tax purposes) but, to put it mildly, it is the lowest form of tackiness to be wealthy and yet have no sense of charity. When your money comes from the labor of thousands of other people, yes, you are expected to throw a biscuit here and there.
It's primarily the newly rich that have this attitude of "it's mine, allllll mine" and that's why there is such a long standing disgust from both above and below.
OMG, like what, visiting /. leads to moral blindness??
Rather, it is critical reasoning that leads us to reject the accumulation and subsequent dispersal of assists acquired illegally or immorally with the obvious understanding that such is a quite poor, and unprofitable, misuse of the world's resources.
Words to men, as air to birds.