July 5, 2008
Interplanetary New Paper Witness
(founded March, 1974)
Nard Kordell, editor
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July 5th, 2008
Shinya Narusawa heads the project at Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in Sayo Town, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Target will likely be extrasolar planet 'Gliese 880' in the Libra constellation.
The hope is discovering something like an artificial signal and transmission. But so what? 'Gliese 880' is likely more light years away in distance than our oldest history of long gone kings, rulers and societies. Should we discover such a signal and shout back, what then? Wait a thousand years or more for an answer?
Should our very Sun go out for some unheard-of, unexplainable and impossible cosmic event, we poor living Earth persons wouldn't sense a thing wrong for...nine minutes is it? Nine impossibly wrong minutes where nothing seemed amiss. Then blackness and the beginning of the end on Earth on the 10th minute.
Earth sits near the edge of our galaxy, The Milky Way. And the only reason why grand telescopes see other galaxies, even into farthest depths of the universe, and onto the very farthest, The Great Wall (as it's called), where pass that frontier wall (really in reverse) lies greater unknowns and mystery, is that we are...near the 'edge' of our galaxy. Should we have been birthed, instead, on an Earth near the center, the brightness of the stars of our own galaxy would obliterate any sense of anything beyond the immensely bright and starry sky that would practically hold no room for even the momentary blackness of something called space.
Astronomers In Japan Will Look For Intelligent Life in the cosmos, mid-2009. Unable to find much here, the prospects for something akin to reasonable care of the species is being sought elsewhere.
Shinya Narusawa heads the project at Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory in Sayo Town, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Target will likely be extrasolar planet 'Gliese 880' in the Libra constellation.
The hope is discovering something like an artificial signal and transmission. But so what? 'Gliese 880' is likely more light years away in distance than our oldest history of long gone kings, rulers and societies. Should we discover such a signal and shout back, what then? Wait a thousand years or more for an answer?
Should our very Sun go out for some unheard-of, unexplainable and impossible cosmic event, we poor living Earth persons wouldn't sense a thing wrong for...nine minutes is it? Nine impossibly wrong minutes where nothing seemed amiss. Then blackness and the beginning of the end on Earth on the 10th minute.
Earth sits near the edge of our galaxy, The Milky Way. And the only reason why grand telescopes see other galaxies, even into farthest depths of the universe, and onto the very farthest, The Great Wall (as it's called), where pass that frontier wall (really in reverse) lies greater unknowns and mystery, is that we are...near the 'edge' of our galaxy. Should we have been birthed, instead, on an Earth near the center, the brightness of the stars of our own galaxy would obliterate any sense of anything beyond the immensely bright and starry sky that would practically hold no room for even the momentary blackness of something called space.
(If you read Japanese, then no problem. Otherwise, you can look at a couple pictures of the main telescope for the project, which is said to be capable of viewing stars of twentieth magnitude! Lingo for far, far, far away!):
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Labels: astronomers intelligent life Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory Sanyo Town, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Gliese 880 Libra constellation Milky Way
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