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

2002-10-11 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/10/2002 2:35:29 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 It seems to m

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

2002-10-10 Thread LARRY KLAES
, 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

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

2002-10-10 Thread John Sheff
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James McEnanly Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life and SETI [was RE: Survival of the Flattest] Why not look for stars that are pertrubed by an unseen body, looking for 'gravity's silhouette', as i

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

2002-10-10 Thread LARRY KLAES
, 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

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

2002-10-10 Thread Bruce Moomaw
- Original Message - From: "James McEnanly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Life and SETI [was RE: Survival of the Flattest] > > Why not look for stars that are pertrubed by an unseen &g

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

2002-10-10 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
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 a

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

2002-10-10 Thread James McEnanly
Why not look for stars that are pertrubed by an unseen body, looking for 'gravity's silhouette', as it were. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/9/2002 5:29:17 PM Alaskan > Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED], responding to >

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

2002-10-10 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/9/2002 5:29:17 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED], responding to my comments, wrote: > He suggests that we can't find suns transmitting signals, because those suns > are already cloaked, and pumping energy into vast 'rin

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

2002-10-09 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED], responding to my comments, wrote: > He suggests that we can't find suns transmitting signals, because those suns > are already cloaked, and pumping energy into vast 'ringworlds'. Actually, more like "sphere-worlds" but that is a technical detail. > I'd ha

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

2002-10-09 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/9/2002 4:54:50 AM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My objections weren't as much to Crawford's ideas as they were to the Andrew LePage sidebar.  The problem in general however still remains -- the significant majority of current "SETI" searches are directed t

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

2002-10-09 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Gary McMurtry wrote: > In the collection is an > article by Ian Crawford entitled "Where Are They?", subtitled "Maybe > we are alone in the galaxy after all". I found this article thought > provoking to say the least. Crawford uses the SETI results to date > to suggest tha