Re: Life and SETI [was RE: Survival of the Flattest]

[LARRY KLAES]

There is a recent paper which indicates that many of the transits detected by OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) may only be small stars instead of exoplanets.   Here is the URL to that paper:   http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207192     I learned about the above paper at this great astronomy news site:   http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/     FYI, for those who want in-depth information and access to papers on SETI, I highly recommend this Web site:   http://members.aol.com/setilink/   Larry   ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert J. Bradbury Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life and SETI [was RE: Survival of the Flattest]   On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, James McEnanly wrote: > Why not look for stars that are pertrubed by an unseen > body, looking for 'gravity's silhouette', as it were. This is to some extent what the gravitational microlensing studies did/do.  The results that were obtained in these studies in the '90's are still largely unexplained.  While the European's may still be doing these studies, I think the American/Australian effort has ceased.  They may be working on a satellite mission to be able to continue them at some future point. If there happen to be any Dyson shells in the process of being built, they might be noticed by the FAME or Kepler missions (they would tend to appear to be long period variable stars). Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/