[What part of the UN charter authorizes this kind of work?] From: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/09/10/stifgnnws01001.html September 10 2000 WORLD Giant telescope to look for alien life Jonathan Leake, Science Editor THE United Nations is drawing up plans for a giant radio telescope that will scan more than a million stars for signs of intelligent life. The £800m machine, called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will be the most sensitive astronomical instrument yet built. An agreement to build the new telescope was signed last month at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Manchester. Scientists will spend the next few years designing the technology, with completion due in about 2015. Scientists hope to detect television and radio transmissions, or signals broadcast by alien civilisations. "We will use it to survey stars up to 1,000 light years away from us," said Jill Tarter, a leading researcher at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (Seti) institute in America. Seti's instruments are only powerful enough to examine several hundred stars. Impetus for the plan has grown in recent months, with astronomers announcing the discovery of more than 40 planets in distant solar systems. The planets are mostly very large and too hot to support life as we know it, but their discovery suggests many smaller, Earth-like planets may also exist. Besides looking for intelligent extraterrestrials, the SKA will seek the faint radiation emitted 10-12 billion years ago when the first stars and galaxies formed after the big bang, the explosion of dense matter that marked the universe's origin. It will also allow astronomers to plot in detail the courses of asteroids and comets that threaten to collide with the Earth. Professor Peter Wilkinson, a senior astronomer at Jodrell Bank, Britain's renowned radio telescope centre, said that the SKA could enable humanity to protect itself from their impact. Astronomers calculate that the telescope will need a collecting area of a square kilometre, made up of hundreds of antennae or dishes scattered across thousands of miles, linked by some of the most sophisticated computers on Earth. Scientists aim to create a "radio quiet park", where nobody will be allowed to use mobile phones, TV, radio or walkie-talkies for fear their emissions could be mistaken for signs of alien life. The most likely site is in Australia. Professor Ron Ekers, of the Australia National Telescope Facility, who has been advising the UN, said the SKA would provide "crucial new evidence on the formation and early history of the first stars". For Tarter, however, the biggest issue is how Earth will cope if the SKA succeeds in detecting alien life. "Such a discovery will change our perception of our role in the cosmos. This telescope will be a great scientific instrument, but its effect on humanity could be profound." ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
