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Jewish World Review
Looking for E.T.
By
Randy A. Salas
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
(MCT) The Associated Press recently reported the strange case of a Minneapolis man whose stolen laptop computer was tracked down using an online network that was set up to search for intelligent life in the universe. We will leave the crime-solving to the police, but, hey, that search for smart extraterrestrials sure sounds cool.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.eduWhat does your computer do when you're not using it? For members of the SETI@home project, their computers' "idle time" is spent looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The network combines the processing power of millions of personal computers worldwide to form a virtual supercomputer that exhaustively crunches data from a radio telescope to see if radio signals from space might have an alien brain behind them. No E.T. has been found in the nearly eight years since SETI@home was started, but the project did help track down a laptop stolen from James Melin and his wife, Melinda Kimberly, of Minneapolis, according to the AP (see story at www.startribune.com/a2410). The thief turned on the computer and it automatically logged into SETI@home, allowing police to track down the laptop using information it provided to the network. You can join SETI@home for free by downloading and installing the program needed to run it. The site explains everything. You determine when your computer pitches in and how much of its resources are used. Even if you collectively never find intelligent life beyond Earth, you might be helping to protect your computer from theft.www.seti.orgDespite its name, SETI@home is not part of the older SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, which was founded in 1984. The search is just half of the institute's mission, the other being devoted to the study of life in the universe, or astrobiology. Things are fairly dry at the SETI site, but it does offer regular features about the latest developments in the search for extraterrestrials, such as a sobering self-examination titled "When Does SETI Throw in the Towel?" The site also houses the institute's weekly radio show, "Are We Alone?" -- with a new episode, "That Thinking Feeling," being posted today for download.voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.htmlNASA has had cosmic ambassadors carrying a message from Earth for nearly 30 years. Launched in late summer 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes each carried a gold-plated phonograph record with music, images and greetings in 55 languages. NASA's official Voyager website offers a decent overview, but GoldenRecord.org (www.goldenrecord.org) presents an easy-to-use multimedia guide to the record, including music samples. There's no word on what happens if the extraterrestrials that find either Voyager don't have a record player.www.ufoartwork.comMaybe all of these scientific missions to find extraterrestrial intelligence are wasting time and money. According to Matthew Hurley's UFO Artwork, aliens have been with us since the prehistoric era and the presence of UFOs in artwork going back to ancient cave paintings seems to prove it. Although it hasn't been updated since 2001 (to divert material to a related book project), his site shows dozens of paintings, murals and more showing UFOs in the sky behind, say, a crucified Jesus, Moses and prehistoric wildlife. Far out, man.
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