Succeed in what? in getting funds from some public institution, I suppose. Never saw something more absurd. In Cuba there are some universitary research on the power of the pyramids. I think that they may have some success in getting funds for these spheres.
2015-04-02 0:02 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > > > This news has gotten remarkably little coverage. So for those who > have not heard: > > Project Ozma failed. Project Durin succeeded. It turned out SETI > (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) was looking in the > wrong direction all along. It was looking up when it should have > been looking down. > > Evolution works much the same everywhere in the universe. It > selects for different attributes in different environments, but > one commonality is that it never selects for extreme patience. > > How long would anyone keep transmitting a few gigawatts at a silent > planet? A decade? A century? A millennium? The one serious human > attempt to send such a message (the Arecibo message) lasted less than > three minutes, and was never repeated. > > If the phone doesn't answer, you leave a message. > > As Fermi pointed out decades ago, there's nothing special about the > present age. A solar system which is just a little older, or in which > evolution happened just a little more quickly, would result in a race > millions of years ahead of us. If they sent signals to Earth, they'd > get no reply. If they visited Earth, they'd find nothing more > advanced than dinosaurs, or perhaps blue-green algae. And they > certainly could have visited Earth. Even at the speed of our current > spacecraft, it's possible to reach every part of the galaxy on a > geological time scale. > > That is why Ayeph Dee, professor of exobiology at Frank Drake University, > had his students come up with a way to leave a message on an Earthlike > planet that would be detectable and readable for hundreds of millions > of years. > > They came up with the idea of buried hollow titanium spheres, a few > meters in diameter, containing tuning forks. Over the course of ages > some would come to the surface and be weathered to dust, and others > would be be subducted to depths at which temperature and pressure > would destroy them. But if there were enough of them, and if they > were carefully placed, some would survive for hundreds of millions > of years at relatively shallow depths, embedded in bedrock. > > Project Durin, named for the ruler of Tolkien's fictional underground > land of Moria, consists of a grid of ten thousand broad-spectrum > microphones embedded in the bedrock of the Canadian Shield. > Recordings are made available to the SETIunderground@Home distributed > computing project, whose software turns the array into an acoustic > version of a passive phased array radar. It searches the bedrock > for narrow-band point sources of acoustic energy from tuning forks > excited by natural seismic activity. > > Such a source was found, approximately 41 kilometers deep, with a > strong high-Q (~100) resonance at about 14 Hz. This is consistent > with a tuning fork inside a hollow sphere, possibly made of titanium > or tungsten, and possibly filled with oil. There were also several > seconds of broad-spectrum noise, which could be from multiple smaller > tuning forks inside the same sphere. Dee conjectured that such a set > of tuning forks could be used to encode a message, based on their > relative frequencies and their relative locations within the sphere. > > Unfortunately, we don't yet have the technology to excavate anything > at that depth. (The deepest borehole ever drilled is just 12 > kilometers.) This also means that the rock surrounding the sphere > hasn't been analyzed, so we have no idea of its age, except that it's > certainly Precambrian, probably at least a billion years old, and > possibly two or three times that age. > > It's believed that it was originally buried at a shallow depth. It's > not known whether this was on land or under an ocean, or whether the > builders were from our solar system or not. (Venus and Mars may have > been much more hospitable to life eons ago.) It's even possible that > it was constructed by an indigenous terrestrial sapient race, though > it's hard to imagine it would have left no signs of its existence that > we would have noticed by now. > > The planned next step is to detonate several embedded explosives, one > at a time, in various locations, as a form of active sonar, to more > closely locate the sphere. Once that is done, a large number of > larger explosives (about 100 of approximately one ton each) will be > detonated almost simultaneously, such that their shock waves will > reach the sphere simultaneously from multiple directions, to excite > a strong and sharp resonance of all the tuning forks. > > Searches for additional spheres elsewhere on Earth are encouraged. > > Project Durin is always open to suggestions. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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