Signals from space

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Hi Grady, you have a point but so does everyone else. I think while the earth is in a stable zone it would be expected that it will find a way of correcting itself, we may not exist after that but it could happen.

Stephen Hawkin's also said that we will not expect to survive on this earth in the long term and we need to develop space travel to move when it gets out of control. Need confirm that or whether he has changed his mind.

I think we need to find sustainable planets before intelligent life but why not both. Communication may come in different forms but as it needs to travel accross space it can only be done but electromagnetic radiation including light.
I think if we can determin that life exist on other planets and able to detect their communication then we would also be able to decifer and determin whether they are agressive as well.

[CraigS]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

From the Campbelltown Chronicle - latest edition:

Chris;

Thanks for the update .. I really was interested to know his point of view.

Its also a bit as expected .. a media concoted thing. Its a pretty big stretch to believe the coincidence reported, (without any accompanying facts).

Good on Bhathal for taking a stand on it. I truly hope his reputation doesn't become a casuality of it all.

Malcolm, Bojan and Grady .. I'm starting to wonder about the possible fractal nature of our observable universe .. interesting.

Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Yes, interesting indeed. Dr Bhathal ("Rugby" to us) is co-patron of our society, the Macarthur Astronomical Society (MAS) down south-west of Sydney. He's a meticulous sort of bloke, so I really hope that something positive comes of this. I'm sure it'll be mention during tonights' general meeting.

Here are the domes that he bases his observations from - the left dome houses his main apparatus - a 16" SCT plus SETI goodies, and on the right a 10" with an ST-series SBIG attached. A few of us in the society have had official training on these two - so that we can run them without Dr Bhathal being physically present.

This photo was from one of our public nights we put on during IYA '09 last year. The domes have been...uhmm... washed since then.

Chis I helped to build and install those domes in 1999, also put one on the top of the power house museum, the dome sadly is no longer there but in storage
It was about time the domes at the university where cleaned up, they looked pretty grotty when I last saw them a couple of years ago
Cheers

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by astroron

Chis I helped to build and install those domes in 1999, also put one on the top of the power house museum, the dome sadly is no longer there but in storage
It was about time the domes at the university where cleaned up, they looked pretty grotty when I last saw them a couple of years ago
Cheers

Wow Ron!

How's that for the world being small. The domes are actually in really good nick. We cleaned them up some time ago now (originally against the University's wishes) and they came up very nicely indeed. We based our IYA '09 public nights there for the whole year and we wanted them to look good for the folks who came along. Internally they're both doing very well, and testament to the quality of the installation they both open and turn very smoothly still. It's just a pity that the Uni accommodation blocks are now being built up the hill towards the domes, gradually lighting up the entire area. Hopefully the Rotary Club/uni will move them somewhere darker - maybe to one of MAS's dark sky sites?

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Wow Ron!

How's that for the world being small. The domes are actually in really good nick. We cleaned them up some time ago now (originally against the University's wishes) and they came up very nicely indeed. We based our IYA '09 public nights there for the whole year and we wanted them to look good for the folks who came along. Internally they're both doing very well, and testament to the quality of the installation they both open and turn very smoothly still. It's just a pity that the Uni accommodation blocks are now being built up the hill towards the domes, gradually lighting up the entire area. Hopefully the Rotary Club/uni will move them somewhere darker - maybe to one of MAS's dark sky sites?

Yes Chris, I and the friend who makes the domes had Dinner with Rugby, and had met him a cuople of times in Queensland prior to coming to Sydney to install the 2.9mt one's, the one on the Power house was also 2.9mt.
Why didn't the University not want to clean up the Domes, they are verry expensive pieces of equipment ?
Obviously not bothered about the waste of public funds
cheers

[Tommy Camp]

It's good he has explained his position and all that. It makes it a lot more interesting that he discovered that laser pulse. Which otherwise was ridiculed.

[CraigS]

Originally Posted by Tommy Camp

It's good he has explained his position and all that. It makes it a lot more interesting that he discovered that laser pulse. Which otherwise was ridiculed.

Hmm .. the newspaper report quoted him as saying:

What we found two years ago was a very sharp laser lookalike signal which we thought was a signal from extra-terrestrials.
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We looked at that signal and then that region for several months but couldn't find it again. The signal we found was not even in the same area as where the new planet has been discovered.

The signal wasn't necessarily from a laser and he acknowledges that, in his words. Its detection also couldn't be repeated.

Cheers