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Martin 53N 1W wrote:
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:
> Jason H. wrote:
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:
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All I can say is to keep pressing seti@home to expand their search for
detections from the planets. Get a campaign going Jason. I'd support
you. On your web site get people to "sign" a letter from seti@home
users (there are many thousands of us) requesting seti@home and the
Planetary Society to look for an excess of signal "hits" from the
planets. I'd support you. Get a funding campaign going to support the
project.
That should be something that the Argos search people should be able to
target. The sort of equipment that amateur searches can get together
should be well suited to focused nearby searches.
There's just the usual problem of terrestrial RFI to filter out...
Aside: Is there not already RF monitoring data from the probes that have
already been around/past the planets?
Yes, I remember seeing a broadband spectrum from Jupiter as Voyager
slungshot past. It was published in an article dealing with the
decametric (wavelength), and lightning induced, radio emissions from
Jupiter. These reports don't get wide publicity though.
Similarly for Saturn. In fact recently Cassini recorded some very
curious emissions from Saturn. See:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=589
The thing is we have to trust the scientists to report what they find.
If they find nothing, usually it does not get reported ... the bad apart
about this, when nothing is found or reported, is that then people start
thinking of "cover-ups" and "conspiracies" ...
I think Jason has a good case though about seti@home looking at possible
detections from the planets with their data. Why not? It wouldn't be all
that difficult to do.
Radio amateurs could do it, but since their equipment sensitivity isn't
like Arecibo or the other big radio telescope used for META then a
non-detection event would not prove anything ...
Regards,
Martin
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