Join the Wait
There are few times you hear about a revolution in our approach to a problem. For years great people have been searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) but now the WETI institute are taking a different approach. Rather than spend millions of pounds or dollars actively searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence, why not just wait for it to come and find us. This approach is much more cost effective than many projects in astronomy and is an awful lot easier too. You can even download their WETI@Home software which, given enough participation, will allow hundreds of years worth of waiting to be done in a matter of days.
The WETI institute have a poster on display at the .Astronomy conference in Cardiff and I'm going to ask them to put this brilliant piece of work online. I have the pin badge, I've read the poster, and now I'll sit back for a cup of tea and wait.
Comments: Join the Wait
What a crack up. SETI has always seemed kind of silly to me. Not that I find the notion of ET intelligence silly, not at all. What I find silly is the idea that some civilization is going to purposefully announce they exist with radio waves, and that such an announcement is going to happen to fall in our time scale and happen to be beamed at earth. A more likely possibility is that ET is just going about his day to day business. Unfortunately SETI, or maybe anything on earth, is unlikely to pick up that kind of signal. So WETI sounds like a fabulous idea to me.
Posted by David McMahon on Wednesday 01st Oct 2008 (03:54 UTC)
Hello-
It sounds like Thom Hartmann has been âœout of the ADHD worldâ
for a couple of years. Has he written/spoken about ADHD recently
Posted by sohbet on Thursday 02nd Oct 2008 (05:16 UTC)