[meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:43:50 -0500
Message-ID: <BFBD06D9137E445F8EE06FF87B571CE3_at_ATARIENGINE2>

The message has already been sent! Social Networking has
reached out to the stars.

In October 2008, members of the networking website Bebo
beamed A Message From Earth, a high-power transmission at
Gliese 581, using the RT-70 radio telescope belonging to the
National Space Agency of Ukraine. This transmission is due
to arrive in the Gliese 581 system's vicinity by the year 2029;
the earliest possible arrival for a response, should there be
one, would be in 2049.

Transmission of such a message from U.S. soil is a criminal
offense, I believe. Or at least, frowned upon.


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Thunder Stone" <stanleygregr at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly
foundplanet?



Ok then - how about a Radio Transmission. I would assume we are doing
this. What would we send?

We gotta do something!

Greg S.

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> From: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; stanleygregr at hotmail.com;
> steve.dunklee at yahoo.com
> CC: clp at alumni.caltech.edu
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly
> foundplanet?
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:37:43 -0500
>
> To The List Travel Club:
>
> A 0.008c probe could be built tomorrow (got cash?). It
> would take about 2600 years to reach the Gliese 581
> system and maneuver through it and we could hope
> the instrument packages would have survived.
>
> Here's the real argument against primitive interstellar
> probes: the "velocity" of technological advancement is
> greater than the speed of primitive probes. In 200 years,
> the 2600-year probe would be overtaken by a 800-year
> probe. In another century, they would both be passed
> by the "next-generation" system of propulsion, and so
> forth. And by the time any of these probes could get there,
> we might be able to go ourselves in a reasonable time
> (by the ship's clocks).
>
> On the other hand, we might be able to make a 100-year
> probe by the end of the century. For now, we need to
> concentrate on survey and data collection technologies.
>
> For probe technology, I refer you to the 1973-78 study
> by the British Interplanetary Society -- Project Daedalus.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
> The project is currently being designed as Project Icarus:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Icarus_%28Interstellar_Probe_Design_Study%29
>
> See also the 1987-88 study by NASA and the Air Force,
> Project Longshot (good name)"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Longshot
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dunklee"
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly
> foundplanet?
>
>
> > Gee only 20 light years away. Since it would take an infinite amount
> > of energy to accelerate a small mass to the speed of light. I guess
> > the world may never know!
> >
> >
> >
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