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SUBJECT: Q & A ON PROJECT SETI FILE: UFO2744
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Sun 26 Apr 92 2:05
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By: Don Allen
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To: All
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Re: Q & A on "Project" Seti
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** Forwarded from Usenet **
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From: Bob_Dixon
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Subject: What is the Current Status of Project SETI?
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Date: 21 Apr 92 15:21:57 GMT
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In response to Jon Noring's questions of Apr 17:
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There is no such thing as Project SETI. SETI is just an acronym that
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stands for a particular field of research, like brain surgery. There are
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many Projects around the earth, run by many different people and
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organizations, that are engaged in the field of SETI.
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The longest-running SETI program on Earth is the one at here at Ohio
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State. Another very important one is at Harvard. The only other
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continuous program is one started recently in Argentina.
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NASA plans to start their own program next October, using various radio
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telescopes around the world (primarily NASA-owned).
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The SETI detection protocol discussed earlier on this newsgroup
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formalizes the distribution of any discoveries, making it unlikely that
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they could be classified. But even without that, classification does not
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seem to be a real threat. No government has ever mentioned such a
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possibility. Nobody in a position to classify anything knows what is
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going on day-by-day at any observatory. Surely the scientists involved
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will notify one another at the various observatories before making any
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announcement. By then it will be too late for classification to make any
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difference.
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Bob Dixon
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Director, OSU SETI Program
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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