Space Forum / SETI / October 2005

I've been googling, but are they not any add-on (BOINC) SETI screensavers?
The BOINC SETI screensaver is absolutetly worthless.  It is butt ugly and
gobbles resources.  Why do they even bother including it?
I doubt SETI is ever going to get around to making a practical screensaver

Communicating - How To Talk To Aliens - by David M. Ewalt (Oct. 24,'05)
http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/21/space-seti-aliens-comm05-cx_de_1024ewalt.html
Seeking, Jason H.

Article - Alien life in space probably not too buff, researcher says -
By Nicholas K. Geranios
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002566731_webspacelife17.html
Scientists posit that the best (non-Earth) location to look for life

In WinXP Sp2 I've tried setting the Base Priority for SETI to Normal. The
result that I'm expecting is faster crunching times. Everytime I restart the
Base Priority defaults to Low. boincmgr remains at Normal. Is there any way
to set it permanently to Normal or any other priority ...

...will ever support password-enabled screensavers.
Same thing on all my computers, WinXP and Win98:
Screensaver runs fine, dialogue box for password comes up, but mouse focus
can't get to the password field.

Looking in from the UK, I find I am unable to raise any of the S@H
(Berkeley) web pages. Is this a common experience for others?
Also, I see my PCs (hosts under SETI-BOINC) seem unable to collect new
WUs. Is there something up at Berkeley that anyone knows?

Ted Owens (1920-1987) was a famous UFO psychic
who could predict and even control HURRICANES.
http://www.williamjames.com/pkman.htm
http://www.geocities.com/intelligences/ted

I was doing some digitizing of voice recordings when I found a
surprising effect. The first zip file linked below is of a voice
recording in MP3 format. The digital sampling rate was at the default
44khz. The second zipped file is the result when I applied the slower

Win XP programs to check on your 'motherboard' parameters (heat, fans,
etc...)?
Recommendations -- there are ever so many chipsets etc...

With a $3 million budget, and 10,000 element antenna array is being build :
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=5&articleID=000875DC-0624-12
D8-BDFD83414B7F0000
PaST will combine radio signals picked up by 10,000 high-gain antennas arranged in lines up to three ...

Has anyone attempted to 'moonbounce' or EME ATSC UHF band TV signals, in the
UHF band allocation?
It might make a nice publicity stunt for the TV station involved.
What such a test could accomplish:

In the September/October hardcopy issue of Mercury Magazine, published
by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific there is an article by Robert
Jackson: "Another Solution of the Fermi Paradox". "The colonization of
other worlds by a space-faring species may be unlikely for ...

I mean, at least by using the mail, they are paying to deliver the
message, but really!  Anyone else get it?

I saw a link to these on the SETI@home threads (which I'm reading
tonight for the first time :^)
http://hcro.berkeley.edu/%7Erick/links/hatcreek/misc/0817_ATA30/ata.html
Very nice to see this much progress on ATA in images!

http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0510/0510102.pdf
"Message in the Sky", by S. Hsu, and A. Zee
This article in the arXiv:physics archive (11 Oct 2005) proposes that
there might be a message in the CMB left by the "creator" of the Universe.