From owner-public@setileague.org Thu May 1 08:07:55 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h41F7r3j000777; Thu, 1 May 2003 08:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id KAA29153 for public-list; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:41:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav145.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.175]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29101; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 May 2003 07:39:31 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.21 by bay4-dav145.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Thu, 01 May 2003 14:39:31 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.21] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Cc: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Looking for life of any shape or form Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:39:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0014_01C30FCD.E0B20020" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 May 2003 14:39:31.0454 (UTC) FILETIME=[79FA19E0:01C30FEF] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0014_01C30FCD.E0B20020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: science.webmaster@esa.int Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:09 AM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Looking for life of any shape or form On 25 April 25 1953, James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick published an historic paper in Nature that would change the fate of modern science. They proposed that DNA, the molecule of complex life forms, had the shape of a double helix. Today, scientists from all areas are working together to answer the ultimate question: can life (in any shape or form) exist anywhere else in the Universe? For more information, see: http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=32166 ------=_NextPart_001_0014_01C30FCD.E0B20020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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<= BR>On 25 April 25 1953, James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick
publishe= d an historic paper in Nature that would change the
fate of modern sc= ience. They proposed that DNA, the molecule
of complex life forms, ha= d the shape of a double helix. Today,
scientists from all areas are w= orking together to answer the
ultimate question: can life (in any sha= pe or form) exist anywhere
else in the Universe?


For more = information, see:
http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=3D1&am= p;cid=3D1&oid=3D32166

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The bill, reportedly backed by the White House, would authorize spending $2.36 billion over three years for nanotechnology programs at a range of government agencies. Rep.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1924&m=3D7610 ************************* A 'man on the moon' challenge for nanotech May 1, 2003 ************************* May 1 ? The U.S. should develop advanced nanotechnology to reduce our dependence on imported energy and regain our position as the world leader in manufacturing, "a grand challenge similar to the 'man on the moon' challenge," said Jim Von Ehr, CEO of Zyvex Corporation, today in testimony at a U.S... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1923&m=3D7610 ************************* Virus Pushes Schools to Go Virtual April 21, 2003 ************************* After the deadly SARS outbreak, Hong Kong schools were ordered shut last month. But Macromedia Inc. and First Virtual Communications Inc. have helped thousands of those students keep up with their studies via virtual classrooms conducted over the Internet, using web cams.... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1921&m=3D7610 ************************* Decoding Computer Intruders April 24, 2003 ************************* In the abstract, fighting a war is simple. The enemy and the targets are generally identifiable. But in the war against hackers and virus writers, the combatants are harder to know. The attacker might be a 14-year-old in Canada, or a co-worker in the accounting... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1920&m=3D7610 ************************* DARPA-Developed Device Bridges Language Divides April 25, 2003 ************************* Non-linguist U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have been able to communicate with local citizens by using a paperback-book-sized device called the phraselator. 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May 1, 2003 ************************* Can machines think? "For practical purposes, and certainly in the business world, the answer seems to be that if it seems to be intelligent, it doesn't matter whether it really... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1915&m=3D7610 ************************* Web-based attacks could create chaos in the physical world May 1, 2003 ************************* Using little more than a Web search engine and some simple software, a computer-savvy criminal or terrorist could easily leap beyond the boundaries of cyberspace to wreak havoc in the physical world, a team of Internet security researchers has concluded. Automated order forms on the Web could... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1914&m=3D7610 ************************* Brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function and probe neural circuits May 2003 ************************* "Recent studies have shown that it is possible to create functional, bidirectional, real-time interfaces between living brain tissue and artificial devices. It is reasonable to predict that further research on brain?machine interfaces will lead to the development of a new generation of... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1913&m=3D7610 ************************* Embryonic stem cells turned into eggs May 1, 2003 ************************* Embryonic stem cells have been turned into egg cells -- the first time scientists have duplicated the process of egg formation and ovulation in the test tube. The finding opens the possibility that human eggs could be made in large numbers in a culture dish, instead of relying on donors. That... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1912&m=3D7610 ************************* Old age's mental slowdown may be reversible May 1, 2003 ************************* Administering tranquilers to monkeys to increase GABA or its effects can reverse mental decline, say researchers. As people get older, the neurons in their brains increasingly fire non-selectively. 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The models underlying society at every level, which are largely based on a linear model of change, are going to have to be redefined. Because of the explosive power of exponential growth, the 21st century will be equivalent to 20,000 years of progress at today's rate of progress; organizations have to be able to redefine themselves at a faster and faster pace. http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/artRedirect.html?artID=3D563&m=3D7610 *************************************************************************= ****** To see all news items and new articles, please visit http://www.kurzweila= i.net If you have news or editorial related questions, please reply to: news@ku= rzweilai.net ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C310A2.8F55D820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Nanotec= h Bill Picks Up Some
Passengers, Moves On To Full House
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S.189, The Nanotechnology Research
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approved Thursday by the House
Scien= ce Committee. The bill,
reportedly backed by the White
House, would= authorize spending
$2.36 billion over three years for
nanotechnolo= gy programs at a range
of government agencies. Rep....
http://www.k= urzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1924&m=3D7610

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A 'man on the moon' challenge for
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May 1, 2003
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May 1 ? The U.S. = should develop
advanced nanotechnology to reduce
our dependence on = imported energy
and regain our position as the world
leader in manu= facturing, "a grand
challenge similar to the 'man on the
moon' chal= lenge," said Jim Von Ehr,
CEO of Zyvex Corporation, today in
testim= ony at a U.S...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?news= ID=3D1923&m=3D7610



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Virus = Pushes Schools to Go Virtual
April 21, 2003
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After the deadly SARS outbreak,
Hong Kong schools were ordered s= hut
last month. But Macromedia Inc. and
First Virtual Communication= s Inc.
have helped thousands of those
students keep up with their s= tudies
via virtual classrooms conducted
over the Internet, using we= b cams....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D= 1921&m=3D7610



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Decoding Co= mputer Intruders
April 24, 2003
*************************
In the= abstract, fighting a war is
simple. The enemy and the targets
are = generally identifiable. But in
the war against hackers and virus
wr= iters, the combatants are harder
to know. The attacker might be a
1= 4-year-old in Canada, or a
co-worker in the accounting...
http://ww= w.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1920&m=3D7610


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DARPA-Developed Device Bridges
= Language Divides
April 25, 2003
*************************
Non-li= nguist U.S. troops in
Afghanistan and Iraq have been able
to commun= icate with local citizens
by using a paperback-book-sized
device ca= lled the phraselator. The
phraselator uses computer chips to
transl= ate English phrases into as
many as 30 foreign language
equivalents= . Next step: a...
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Indu= stry Loses Web Song-Swap Ruling
April 26, 2003
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Two companies behind services for
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services' users, a federal judge has...
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Apr. 28, 2003
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New vaccines meant to block drug
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keep one from...
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Scientists Breed Cancer-Beating
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The fight against cancer could be
help= ed by the discovery of a strain
of mice which appear to have the
ab= ility to resist the...
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thinking?
May 1, 2003
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business world, the answer seems to
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intelligent, it doesn't matter
whether it really...
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Web-based attacks could create=
chaos in the physical world
May 1, 2003
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Using little more than a Web search
engine and some simple softw= are, a
computer-savvy criminal or terrorist
could easily leap beyon= d the
boundaries of cyberspace to wreak
havoc in the physical world= , a team
of Internet security researchers has
concluded. Automated = order forms on
the Web could...
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Brain-machine interfaces to restore
motor function and pr= obe neural
circuits
May 2003
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"Recen= t studies have shown that it
is possible to create functional,
bidi= rectional, real-time interfaces
between living brain tissue and
art= ificial devices. It is reasonable
to predict that further research on<= BR>brain?machine interfaces will lead
to the development of a new
g= eneration of...
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Embryo= nic stem cells turned into
eggs
May 1, 2003
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Embryonic stem cells have been
turned into egg cells -- the f= irst
time scientists have duplicated the
process of egg formation a= nd
ovulation in the test tube. The
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human eggs could be made in large
numbers in a culture dish, ins= tead
of relying on donors. That...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/= newsRedirect.html?newsID=3D1912&m=3D7610



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Old age's mental slowdown may be
reversible
May 1, = 2003
*************************
Administering tranquilers to
monk= eys to increase GABA or its
effects can reverse mental decline,
say= researchers. As people get
older, the neurons in their brains
incr= easingly fire non-selectively.
By helping neurons to respond only
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the brain to make sense of...
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Some fear loss of privacy as<= BR>science pries into brain
May 1, 2003
*************************Brain scientists' mounting success
at mapping brains is sparking
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Und= erstanding the Accelerating Rate
of Change
Ray Kurzweil
Chris Me= yer
05/02/2003
*************************
We're entering an age o= f
acceleration. The models underlying
society at every level, which= are
largely based on a linear model of
change, are going to have t= o be
redefined. Because of the explosive
power of exponential growt= h, the
21st century will be equivalent to
20,000 years of progress = at today's
rate of progress; organizations have
to be able to redef= ine themselves at
a faster and faster pace.
http://www.kurzweilai.n= et/email/artRedirect.html?artID=3D563&m=3D7610



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------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C310A2.8F55D820-- From owner-public@setileague.org Sat May 3 17:13:46 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h440Di3j019598; Sat, 3 May 2003 17:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id TAA11453 for public-list; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:51:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from orngca-mls03.socal.rr.com (orngca-mls03.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.18]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11449 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 19:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zeke (66-27-117-80.san.rr.com [66.27.117.80]) by orngca-mls03.socal.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id h43NpGR20014 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 16:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003401c311ce$eb0ed9a0$ab7ba8c0@zeke> Reply-To: "James Brown" From: "James Brown" To: "Public SETI-League" Subject: SETI public: Audio Connection Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 16:51:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0031_01C31194.3E8213D0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C31194.3E8213D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I decided to spend most of today and figuring out how the Microsoft = Volume control works. The result is a good block diagram that explains = it. If you are interested checkout: www.SETI.Net choose the Engineering tab and go to the bottom of that = page. Jim Brown Jim@SETI.Net Argus DM12jw W6KYP www.SETI.Net ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C31194.3E8213D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I decided to spend most of today and = figuring out=20 how the Microsoft Volume control works.  The = result is a=20 good block diagram that explains it.  If you are interested=20 checkout:
  www.SETI.Net choose = the Engineering tab=20 and go to the bottom of that page.
 
Jim Brown
Jim@SETI.Net
Argus = DM12jw
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------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C312E7.78D16500-- From owner-public@setileague.org Mon May 5 08:50:04 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h45Fo13j031937; Mon, 5 May 2003 08:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id LAA28075 for public-list; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:28:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav153.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.183]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28070 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 May 2003 08:28:25 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.15 by bay4-dav153.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Mon, 05 May 2003 15:28:25 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: A Man Who Thinks Otherwise Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:28:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_001D_01C312F9.66F62570" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 May 2003 15:28:25.0874 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8AE0F20:01C3131A] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_001D_01C312F9.66F62570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This article is available online at this address: http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i31/31a05601.htm - The text of the article is below - _________________________________________________________________ Finding it hard to keep up with all that's happening in academe? The Chronicle's e-mailed Daily Report keeps you up-to-date in a matter of minutes by quickly summarizing current events in higher education while providing links to complete coverage on our subscriber-only Web site. The Daily Report and Web access come with your Chronicle subscription at no extra cost. Order your subscription now at http://chronicle.com/4free?es _________________________________________________________________ From the issue dated April 11, 2003 A Man Who Thinks Otherwise By RICHARD MONASTERSKY In an academic career spanning seven decades, the lowest point for Philip Morrison came when students at Cornell University picked up rocks and hurled them at him. It was late October 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev were pushing each other to the brink of war in a standoff over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Mr. Morrison, a professor of physics, stood on the steps of Cornell's student union, using his cane to help steady legs weakened by childhood polio. Along with a colleague, "we gave a half an hour to the idea that instead of discussing nuclear war or bombing Russia or Cuba, we should ask first for the state leaders, Kennedy and Khrushchev, to meet with the secretary general of the United Nations to arrange for some sort of stop to the process. So they could talk it over." "That could not be called a very radical proposal," says Mr. Morrison, his voice faltering, dropping to a whisper. "Well, we were stoned." The irony of the moment was lost on the students: The man they were attacking had helped father the atomic bomb, had witnessed firsthand the horror of Hiroshima, had survived the dark years of the McCarthy witch hunts, had spent much of his life trying to protect democracy from tyranny. And the students were trying to silence him. Forty years later, the nation is again consumed with concern over security, with the worry that an attack is just around the corner. Like the rest of society, academe is adapting, mobilizing, hardening, retrenching. Many universities are developing projects to make the nation safer, but at the same time, they run the risk of curtailing the freedom they seek to defend. Mr. Morrison, who is now 87 and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has seen it all before, in a career that rode through much of the turmoil of the 20th century. It was hard to be apolitical at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s, especially as a graduate student of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Mr. Morrison was one of Oppenheimer's most promising proteges, and like many physicists in that circle, he belonged to the Communist Party, which fought for liberal causes such as organizing farmworkers and promoting civil rights for African-Americans. Mr. Morrison earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1940 and was teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a year later, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. In late 1942, he received a cryptic invitation from Robert F. Christy, another Berkeley graduate, to pay him a visit at his office in Chicago. Mr. Christy had disappeared from academe after the war started, as had many other nuclear physicists. When Mr. Morrison arrived for the appointment, he was met by armed guards. Mr. Christy took him to an office and sat him down. "You know what we're doing here?" he asked. "I don't know, but I can imagine," said Mr. Morrison. "Very likely it's connected with uranium." "Oh yes. We are making bombs," said Mr. Christy, stunning Mr. Morrison with his frankness. "You are one of the very few people in this country -- only a handful could be useful in this project. Yet I want to ask you a question," continued Mr. Christy. "If the Germans develop an atomic bomb first, he said, don't you think we will lose this war?" That conversation, all of three minutes long, redirected Mr. Morrison's future. Terrified by the prospect of a German bomb, he joined the project, working with Enrico Fermi to refine methods to produce plutonium. In 1944, Mr. Morrison moved to Los Alamos, N.M., to help construct the "gadget," as the plutonium bomb was called. On July 12, 1945, he found himself riding in a Dodge sedan from the mountains of Los Alamos down to the desert, with the plutonium core of a gadget named Fat Man resting in the back seat next to him. Four days later, at 5:30 a.m., he watched the world's first atomic explosion usher in a new age. Mr. Morrison then shipped out for Tinian, an island in the North Pacific, and helped assemble the Fat Man that would devastate Nagasaki on August 9, three days after a simpler uranium bomb obliterated Hiroshima. In earlier meetings, he had argued that the United States could not use the weapon without a public demonstration first. "My position was simple: 'We have to give a real warning, maybe with movies and all that, because this is starting a new kind of warfare,'" he says. But the generals dismissed Mr. Morrison and other scientists who advocated restraint. In September, the war over, he accepted the grim assignment of touring Japan, "with the sense that I was completing my long witness to the entire tragedy." He arrived on the first day of the American occupation and later walked through Hiroshima, a disaster he called "matchless in human misery." After the war, Mr. Morrison used his unique set of experiences to pursue peace, sustained by the hope that such a fearful weapon would unite the world, not divide it. "I am completely convinced that another war cannot be allowed," he wrote in testimony to the U.S. Senate in 1946. Only with international control of the new bomb could nations hope to avert annihilation. "We have a chance to build a working peace on the novelty and terror of the atomic bomb." Mr. Morrison felt driven to promote peace, but he foresaw that growing tensions with the Soviet Union might hinder freedom of expression. So he declined an invitation to return to the physics department at Berkeley. "I knew that Berkeley was going to be one of the most vulnerable of places," he says. "A state university can't stand out against a majority opinion, even if it is weak and poorly supported." Instead, in the summer of 1946, he headed for Ithaca, N.Y., "because my colleagues in physics were people of such rectitude, for example Hans Bethe [a Los Alamos alumnus and future Nobel laureate], that I knew they would be very decent and believe in the old principles -- and that Cornell was a quiet place." But even there, Mr. Morrison could not hide from the Federal Bureau of Investigation or from red-baiting members of Congress and the press. When a newsletter called Counterattack in 1951 described Mr. Morrison as a Communist, members of Cornell's Board of Trustees called on the university's acting president, T.P. Wright, to fire the tenured professor, according to Silvan S. Schweber's In the Shadow of the Bomb (Princeton University Press, 2000). The accusations against Mr. Morrison alarmed some alumni and trustees, and crimped the university's fund raising. The president told Mr. Morrison that his activities "are bringing great harm to Cornell." Even Mr. Bethe, who steadfastly defended Mr. Morrison, was annoyed by his "charitable attitude towards Russia." In 1953, Mr. Morrison brought more unwanted publicity to Cornell when he was forced to testify before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee. Under pressure, the physics professor gradually reduced his political work, but he defended his right to voice unpopular opinions. In a letter to Mr. Wright, Mr. Morrison wrote, "Was it not our own Carl Becker [a Cornell historian] who defined a professor as 'a man who thinks otherwise'?" In his townhouse in Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Morrison sees parallels between past and present, although he says the attacks on civil liberties have grown more sophisticated. "Many people are being injured, but they belong to categories which are cleverly chosen so that most people are not too worried about it. ... It's very unkind, but that's the thing that works." He sympathizes with ordinary citizens whose lives have been uprooted, recalling the years he spent defending himself against accusers. "It was hateful," he says of the period. "Not the least of it was that quite good people couldn't see that, or they were unwilling to see that. And that made it seem still worse." The attacks from Communist hunters diminished as the '50s closed, but it would be many more years before the country would catch up with Mr. Morrison's unbridled support for peace. He moved to MIT in 1965 and has been there ever since, promoting science education, continuing his research, and speaking out. In recent meetings with MIT's president, Charles M. Vest, Mr. Morrison has advocated on behalf of foreign students. He is proud that the university has supported their rights. "The better schools are doing it," he says. "The weaker schools can't raise their voice so much. Times are hard." In his book, Mr. Schweber, a professor of physics and of history at Brandeis University and Harvard University, calls Mr. Morrison "one of the most courageous defenders of civil liberties and one of the most forceful and outspoken advocates of a peaceful solution to the cold war during the McCarthy era." Mr. Morrison waves off that description. "No," he says. "I just lived a long time. I felt it keenly and saw many things. I think we tried everything." But he can't shake the memory of that stoning at Cornell. "It wasn't all the students. It was only a few. But it made an impression on me," he says, his pale blue eyes focusing on something outside the window, far away. In character, Mr. Morrison didn't let the rocks silence him on that day long ago. "We dodged," he says. "They got some shame and stopped after a little while. Ran out of stones. Then we went back and talked." _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: http://chronicle.com ------=_NextPart_001_001D_01C312F9.66F62570 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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  From the issue dated April 11, 2003



=   A Man Who Thinks Otherwise

  By RICHARD MONASTERSKY 
   In an academic career spanning seven decades, th= e lowest
  point for Philip Morrison came when students at Cornel= l
  University picked up rocks and hurled them at him.
  =
  It was late October 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita S.  Khrushchev were pushing each other to the brink of war in a
&= nbsp; standoff over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Mr. Morrison, a
&= nbsp; professor of physics, stood on the steps of Cornell's student
&n= bsp; union, using his cane to help steady legs weakened by
  chil= dhood polio. Along with a colleague, "we gave a half an
  hour to= the idea that instead of discussing nuclear war or
  bombing Rus= sia or Cuba, we should ask first for the state
  leaders, Kennedy= and Khrushchev, to meet with the secretary
  general of the Unit= ed Nations to arrange for some sort of stop
  to the process. So = they could talk it over."
 
  "That could not be called = a very radical proposal," says Mr.
  Morrison, his voice falterin= g, dropping to a whisper. "Well,
  we were stoned."
    The irony of the moment was lost on the students: The man they  were attacking had helped father the atomic bomb, had
  w= itnessed firsthand the horror of Hiroshima, had survived the
  da= rk years of the McCarthy witch hunts, had spent much of his
  lif= e trying to protect democracy from tyranny. And the
  students we= re trying to silence him.
 
  Forty years later, the nat= ion is again consumed with concern
  over security, with the worr= y that an attack is just around
  the corner. Like the rest of so= ciety, academe is adapting,
  mobilizing, hardening, retrenching.= Many universities are
  developing projects to make the nation s= afer, but at the same
  time, they run the risk of curtailing the= freedom they seek to
  defend. Mr. Morrison, who is now 87 and a= professor emeritus
  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog= y, has seen it all
  before, in a career that rode through much o= f the turmoil of
  the 20th century.
 
  It was = hard to be apolitical at the University of California
  at Berkel= ey in the 1930s, especially as a graduate student of
  J. Robert = Oppenheimer. Mr. Morrison was one of Oppenheimer's
  most promisi= ng proteges, and like many physicists in that
  circle, he belong= ed to the Communist Party, which fought for
  liberal causes such= as organizing farmworkers and promoting
  civil rights for Afric= an-Americans.
 
  Mr. Morrison earned his Ph.D. in theor= etical physics in 1940
  and was teaching at the University of Il= linois at
  Urbana-Champaign a year later, when the Japanese bomb= ed Pearl
  Harbor. In late 1942, he received a cryptic invitation= from
  Robert F. Christy, another Berkeley graduate, to pay him = a
  visit at his office in Chicago. Mr. Christy had disappeared  from academe after the war started, as had many other nuclear  physicists.
 
  When Mr. Morrison arrived for th= e appointment, he was met by
  armed guards. Mr. Christy took him= to an office and sat him
  down. "You know what we're doing here= ?" he asked.
 
  "I don't know, but I can imagine," said= Mr. Morrison. "Very
  likely it's connected with uranium."
&n= bsp;
  "Oh yes. We are making bombs," said Mr. Christy, stunning= Mr.
  Morrison with his frankness.
 
  "You are= one of the very few people in this country -- only a
  handful c= ould be useful in this project. Yet I want to ask you
  a questio= n," continued Mr. Christy. "If the Germans develop an
  atomic bo= mb first, he said, don't you think we will lose this
  war?"
&= nbsp;
  That conversation, all of three minutes long, redirected= Mr.
  Morrison's future. Terrified by the prospect of a German b= omb,
  he joined the project, working with Enrico Fermi to refine=
  methods to produce plutonium. In 1944, Mr. Morrison moved to  Los Alamos, N.M., to help construct the "gadget," as the
&nbs= p; plutonium bomb was called. On July 12, 1945, he found himself
 = ; riding in a Dodge sedan from the mountains of Los Alamos down
 = to the desert, with the plutonium core of a gadget named Fat
  M= an resting in the back seat next to him. Four days later, at
  5:= 30 a.m., he watched the world's first atomic explosion usher
  in= a new age.
 
  Mr. Morrison then shipped out for Tinian= , an island in the
  North Pacific, and helped assemble the Fat M= an that would
  devastate Nagasaki on August 9, three days after = a simpler
  uranium bomb obliterated Hiroshima. In earlier meetin= gs, he
  had argued that the United States could not use the weap= on
  without a public demonstration first. "My position was simpl= e:
  'We have to give a real warning, maybe with movies and all  that, because this is starting a new kind of warfare,'" he
&n= bsp; says. But the generals dismissed Mr. Morrison and other
  sc= ientists who advocated restraint.
 
  In September, the = war over, he accepted the grim assignment of
  touring Japan, "wi= th the sense that I was completing my long
  witness to the entir= e tragedy." He arrived on the first day of
  the American occupat= ion and later walked through Hiroshima, a
  disaster he called "m= atchless in human misery."
 
  After the war, Mr. Morris= on used his unique set of experiences
  to pursue peace, sustaine= d by the hope that such a fearful
  weapon would unite the world,= not divide it. "I am completely
  convinced that another war can= not be allowed," he wrote in
  testimony to the U.S. Senate in 19= 46. Only with international
  control of the new bomb could natio= ns hope to avert
  annihilation. "We have a chance to build a wor= king peace on
  the novelty and terror of the atomic bomb."
&n= bsp;
  Mr. Morrison felt driven to promote peace, but he foresaw= that
  growing tensions with the Soviet Union might hinder freed= om of
  expression. So he declined an invitation to return to the=
  physics department at Berkeley. "I knew that Berkeley was
&= nbsp; going to be one of the most vulnerable of places," he says. "A
&= nbsp; state university can't stand out against a majority opinion,
&nb= sp; even if it is weak and poorly supported."
 
  Instea= d, in the summer of 1946, he headed for Ithaca, N.Y.,
  "because = my colleagues in physics were people of such
  rectitude, for exa= mple Hans Bethe [a Los Alamos alumnus and
  future Nobel laureate= ], that I knew they would be very decent
  and believe in the old= principles -- and that Cornell was a
  quiet place."
  <= BR>  But even there, Mr. Morrison could not hide from the Federal  Bureau of Investigation or from red-baiting members of
  = Congress and the press. When a newsletter called Counterattack
  = in 1951 described Mr. Morrison as a Communist, members of
  Corne= ll's Board of Trustees called on the university's acting
  presid= ent, T.P. Wright, to fire the tenured professor,
  according to S= ilvan S. Schweber's In the Shadow of the Bomb
  (Princeton Univer= sity Press, 2000).
 
  The accusations against Mr. Morri= son alarmed some alumni and
  trustees, and crimped the universit= y's fund raising. The
  president told Mr. Morrison that his acti= vities "are bringing
  great harm to Cornell." Even Mr. Bethe, wh= o steadfastly
  defended Mr. Morrison, was annoyed by his "charit= able attitude
  towards Russia." In 1953, Mr. Morrison brought mo= re unwanted
  publicity to Cornell when he was forced to testify = before the
  U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee.
&nb= sp;
  Under pressure, the physics professor gradually reduced hi= s
  political work, but he defended his right to voice unpopular<= BR>  opinions. In a letter to Mr. Wright, Mr. Morrison wrote, "Was  it not our own Carl Becker [a Cornell historian] who defined a  professor as 'a man who thinks otherwise'?"
 
 = In his townhouse in Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Morrison sees
  parall= els between past and present, although he says the
  attacks on c= ivil liberties have grown more sophisticated.
  "Many people are = being injured, but they belong to categories
  which are cleverly= chosen so that most people are not too
  worried about it. ... I= t's very unkind, but that's the thing
  that works." He sympathiz= es with ordinary citizens whose lives
  have been uprooted, recal= ling the years he spent defending
  himself against accusers.
=  
  "It was hateful," he says of the period. "Not the least= of it
  was that quite good people couldn't see that, or they we= re
  unwilling to see that. And that made it seem still worse." 
  The attacks from Communist hunters diminished as the = '50s
  closed, but it would be many more years before the country=
  would catch up with Mr. Morrison's unbridled support for
&n= bsp; peace. He moved to MIT in 1965 and has been there ever since,
&nb= sp; promoting science education, continuing his research, and
  s= peaking out. In recent meetings with MIT's president, Charles
  M= . Vest, Mr. Morrison has advocated on behalf of foreign
  student= s. He is proud that the university has supported their
  rights. = "The better schools are doing it," he says. "The
  weaker schools= can't raise their voice so much. Times are
  hard."
    In his book, Mr. Schweber, a professor of physics and of
&nbs= p; history at Brandeis University and Harvard University, calls
 = Mr. Morrison "one of the most courageous defenders of civil
  li= berties and one of the most forceful and outspoken advocates
  of= a peaceful solution to the cold war during the McCarthy
  era."<= BR> 
  Mr. Morrison waves off that description. "No," he sa= ys. "I
  just lived a long time. I felt it keenly and saw many th= ings.
  I think we tried everything."
 
  But he= can't shake the memory of that stoning at Cornell. "It
  wasn't = all the students. It was only a few. But it made an
  impression = on me," he says, his pale blue eyes focusing on
  something outsi= de the window, far away.
 
  In character, Mr. Morrison = didn't let the rocks silence him on
  that day long ago. "We dodg= ed," he says. "They got some shame
  and stopped after a little w= hile. Ran out of stones. Then we
  went back and talked."
&nbs= p;


__________________________________________________________= _______

You may visit The Chronicle as follows:

  = ; http://chronicle.com

------=_NextPart_001_001D_01C312F9.66F62570-- From owner-public@setileague.org Mon May 5 17:48:07 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h460lw3j013754; Mon, 5 May 2003 17:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id UAA09043 for public-list; Mon, 5 May 2003 20:29:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav102.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.132]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA09004; Mon, 5 May 2003 20:27:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 May 2003 17:25:55 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.80 by bay4-dav102.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 00:25:54 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.80] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Cc: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Cornell News: Army ants defy evolution Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:25:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31344.7DC237D0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 00:25:55.0167 (UTC) FILETIME=[0EC1A6F0:01C31366] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31344.7DC237D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:32 PM To: CUNEWS-AG-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-LIFE_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SC= IENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Army ants defy evolution Army ants, as voracious as ever, have defied evolution for 100 =20 million years, Cornell entomologist finds EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, MAY 5, 2003, AT 5 P.M. EDT Contact: Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Office: 607-255-3290 E-mail: bpf2@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, =20 strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and pay no =20 attention to the conventional wisdom of evolutionary biologists. The common scientific belief has been that army ants originated =20 separately on several continents over millions of years. Now it is =20 found there was no evolution. Using fossil data and the tools of a =20 genetics detective, a Cornell University entomologist has discovered =20 that these ants come from the same point of origin, because since the =20 reign of the dinosaurs, about 100 million years ago, army ants in =20 essence have not changed a bit. "Biologists have wondered why army ants, whose queens can't fly or =20 get caught up by the wind, are yet so similar around the world. Army =20 ants have evolved only once and that was in the mid-Cretaceous =20 period," says Sean Brady, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher in =20 entomology, whose study was conducted while he was doctoral candidate =20 at the University of California-Davis. Brady's paper, "Evolution of army ant syndrome: the unique origin and =20 long-term evolutionary stasis of a novel complex of behavioral and =20 reproductive adaptation," will be published on the Web by the =20 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) Online Early =20 Edition between May 5 and May 9 before being printed in PNAS. Army ants are quite unlike the ants commonly found at family picnics. =20 They have what scientists call the "army ant syndrome," comprising =20 three characteristics: the ants are nomadic, they forage for prey =20 without advance scouting, and their wingless queens can produce up to =20 4 million eggs in a month. While this syndrome is found in every =20 army ant species around the world, scientific papers have postulated =20 that army ants evolved these characteristics multiple times after the =20 breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana about 100 million years ago. In total, Brady studied the DNA of 30 army ant species and 20 =20 possible ancestors within the army ant community, divided between the =20 New World species in Ecitoninae and the Old World groups Aenictinae =20 and Dorylinae. He specifically sought information from four different =20 genes to uncover clues to their relationships. "Essentially I built =20 a genetic family tree. Then I took that family tree and looked at its =20 genetic tree rings to postulate what happened in the past," he said. Brady combined the genetic data with the army ant fossil information =20 and the ants' morphological (form and structure) information to =20 establish ages for the different ant species. Combining this data, =20 Brady found that all the species share some of the same genetic =20 mutations. "If they share those mutations, we can infer they evolved =20 from the same source," Brady said. Instead of proving the common assumption that the Old World and the =20 New World army ants developed their lineage independently on separate =20 continents, the entomologist showed the ants evolved only once -- on =20 Gondwana. Brady examined the army ants' behavior on his trips to the Amazon =20 jungle, Brazil's savanna region and the country's coastal rain forest =20 near São Paulo. Periodically millions of army ants would march =20 together through his camp, he says, like a flowing river of red. =20 While the ants move silently, their presence is announced. "The other =20 insects are scared, and they make noises as they flee the invading =20 army," Brady says. "Ant birds follow the ants from the sky and feast =20 on the remnants left behind by the ants. You will hear the =20 high-pitched chirping of the other insects, and you'll hear them and =20 other small animals scurrying in fear. They know what is next." Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide =20 additional information on this news release. Some might not be part =20 of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over =20 their content or availability. o PNAS Online Early Edition: -30- The web version of this release may be found at =20 http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/May03/ArmyAntBrady.bpf.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31344.7DC237D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: cunews@cornell.e= du
Sent: Monday, May 05, 200= 3 6:32 PM
To: CUNEWS-AG-L@co= rnell.edu; CUNEWS-LIFE_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.ed= u
Subject: Cornell News: Arm= y ants defy evolution
 
Army ants, as voracious as e= ver, have defied evolution for 100
million years, Cornell entomologis= t finds

EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, MAY 5, 2003, AT 5 P.M. EDT

= Contact:  Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
Office:  607-255-3290E-mail:  bpf2@cornell.edu


ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nat= ure's ultimate coalition task force,
strike their prey en masse in a = blind, voracious column and pay no
attention to the conventional wisd= om of evolutionary biologists.

The common scientific belief has be= en that army ants originated
separately on several continents over mi= llions of years.  Now it is
found there was no evolution. Using = fossil data and the tools of a
genetics detective, a Cornell Universi= ty entomologist has discovered
that these ants come from the same poi= nt of origin, because since the
reign of the dinosaurs, about 100 mil= lion years ago, army ants in
essence have not changed a bit.

"= Biologists have wondered why army ants, whose queens can't fly or
get= caught up by the wind, are yet so similar around the world.  Army <= BR>ants have evolved only once and that was in the mid-Cretaceous
per= iod," says Sean Brady, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher in
entomolog= y, whose study was conducted while he was doctoral candidate
at the U= niversity of California-Davis.

Brady's paper, "Evolution of army a= nt syndrome: the unique origin and
long-term evolutionary stasis of a= novel complex of behavioral and
reproductive adaptation," will be pu= blished on the Web by the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie= nce (PNAS) Online Early
Edition between May 5 and May 9 before being = printed in PNAS.

Army ants are quite unlike the ants commonly foun= d at family picnics.
They have what scientists call the "army ant syn= drome," comprising
three characteristics: the ants are nomadic, they = forage for prey
without advance scouting, and their wingless queens c= an produce up to
4 million eggs in a month.  While this syndrome= is found in every
army ant species around the world, scientific pape= rs have postulated
that army ants evolved these characteristics multi= ple times after the
breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana about 100 = million years ago.

In total, Brady studied the DNA of 30 army ant = species and 20
possible ancestors within the army ant community, divi= ded between the
New World species in Ecitoninae and the Old World gro= ups Aenictinae
and Dorylinae. He specifically sought information from= four different
genes to uncover clues to their relationships.  = "Essentially I built
a genetic family tree. Then I took that family t= ree and looked at its
genetic tree rings to postulate what happened i= n the past," he said.

Brady combined the genetic data with the arm= y ant fossil information
and the ants' morphological (form and struct= ure) information to
establish ages for the different ant species. Com= bining this data,
Brady found that all the species share some of the = same genetic
mutations.  "If they share those mutations, we can = infer they evolved
from the same source," Brady said.

Instead = of proving the common assumption that the Old World and the
New World= army ants developed their lineage independently on separate
continen= ts, the entomologist showed the ants evolved only once -- on
Gondwana= .

Brady examined the army ants' behavior on his trips to the Amazo= n
jungle, Brazil's savanna region and the country's coastal rain fore= st
near S&atilde;o Paulo. Periodically millions of army ants woul= d march
together through his camp, he says, like a flowing river of r= ed.
While the ants move silently, their presence is announced. "The o= ther
insects are scared, and they make noises as they flee the invadi= ng
army," Brady says.  "Ant birds follow the ants from the sky a= nd feast
on the remnants left behind by the ants. You will hear the <= BR>high-pitched chirping of the other insects, and you'll hear them and <= BR>other small animals scurrying in fear.  They know what is next."<= BR>
Related World Wide Web sites:  The following sites provide additional information on this news release.  Some might not be pa= rt
of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control ov= er
their content or availability.

o PNAS Online Early Edition:= <http://www.pnas.org/papbyrecent.shtml>

-30-


The web version of this release may be found at
http://www.news.corn= ell.edu/releases/May03/ArmyAntBrady.bpf.html

Cornell University Ne= ws Service
Surge 3
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-25= 5-4206
cunews@cornell.edu
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31344.7DC237D0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Mon May 5 19:40:07 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h462e53j012128; Mon, 5 May 2003 19:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id WAA11262 for public-list; Mon, 5 May 2003 22:19:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav5.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.109]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA11258; Mon, 5 May 2003 22:19:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 May 2003 19:18:58 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.80 by bay4-dav5.adinternal.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 02:18:58 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.80] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: [vsnet-alert 7738] SN II 2003ed in NGC 5303(A) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 22:18:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000A_01C31354.49B47650" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 02:18:58.0930 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA31BD20:01C31375] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C31354.49B47650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Hitoshi YAMAOKA Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:09 PM To: vsnet-campaign-sn@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp; vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-= u.ac.jp; astro-l@listserv.uww.edu; isnchat@yahoogroups.com Subject: [vsnet-alert 7738] SN II 2003ed in NGC 5303(A) Dear SN watchers, According to CBET 14, Koichi Itagaki has discovered a relatively bright SN in a nearby galaxy NGC 5303(A). It is turned out to be of type II. =20 The new object was discovered on May 3.496 at mag 15.2 (unfiltered CCD). It is immediately confirmed by R. Kushida and K. Kadota. The position is: R.A. =3D 13h47m45s.36, +36o18'20".3 (J2000.0), which is about 3" east and 4" north of the nucleus of the host galaxy NGC 5303. It was below mag 19 on Apr. 27. NGC 5303 is a peculiar galaxy with short jets, whose appearance is an early spiral. It makes a pair with NGC 5303B located at 2.8' due south of NGC 5303. CBET 14 describes the host galaxy as "NGC 5303A", but the NED suggests that the appropriate designation would be "NGC 5303". There is a foreground star (or a blob within the galaxy) about 3" north and 8" west of the nucleus, which is brighter than the SN at discovery. Please don't misidentify! The CfA team has revealed that the SN is of type II soon after explosion. The spectrum can be seen at: =20 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/oir/Research/supernova/spectra/sn2003ed-20= 030505.flm.gif , which shows a blue continuum with a broad H-alpha feature with P-Cyg profile. It can remain at mag 15 for some dozen days, so the follow-up observation of this bright SN is enjoyable. Sincerely Yours, Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C31354.49B47650 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: Hitoshi YAMAOKA
Sent: Mond= ay, May 05, 2003 10:09 PM
To: vsnet-campaign-sn@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp; vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.= ac.jp; astro-l@listserv.uww.edu; isnchat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vsnet-alert 7738] SN II 2003ed in = NGC 5303(A)
 
Dear SN watchers,

  Accord= ing to CBET 14, Koichi Itagaki has discovered a relatively
bright SN i= n a nearby galaxy NGC 5303(A).  It is turned out to be of
type II= . 

  The new object was discovered on May 3.496 at mag = 15.2 (unfiltered
CCD).  It is immediately confirmed by R. Kushida= and K. Kadota.  The
position is: R.A. =3D 13h47m45s.36, +36o18'2= 0".3 (J2000.0), which is
about 3" east and 4" north of the nucleus of = the host galaxy NGC 5303.
It was below mag 19 on Apr. 27.

 = ; NGC 5303 is a peculiar galaxy with short jets, whose appearance is
a= n early spiral.  It makes a pair with NGC 5303B located at 2.8' due<= BR>south of NGC 5303.  CBET 14 describes the host galaxy as "NGC 530= 3A",
but the NED suggests that the appropriate designation would be "N= GC
5303".  There is a foreground star (or a blob within the galax= y) about
3" north and 8" west of the nucleus, which is brighter than t= he SN at
discovery.  Please don't misidentify!

  The = CfA team has revealed that the SN is of type II soon after
explosion.&= nbsp; The spectrum can be seen at:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/oir= /Research/supernova/spectra/sn2003ed-20030505.flm.gif
, which shows a = blue continuum with a broad H-alpha feature with P-Cyg
profile.  = It can remain at mag 15 for some dozen days, so the
follow-up observat= ion of this bright SN is enjoyable.

Sincerely Yours,
Hitoshi Ya= maoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan
yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp



------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C31354.49B47650-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue May 6 11:11:48 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h46IBk3j016975; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA29911 for public-list; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:48:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav69.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.99]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29907; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:48:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:48:17 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.17 by bay4-dav69.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 17:48:17 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.17] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Planet finding prospects for SIM Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:47:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C313D6.1A73ED80" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 17:48:17.0605 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACF45750:01C313F7] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C313D6.1A73ED80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Planet finding prospects for the Space Interferometry Mission =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9084 =20 Phase Separation in Giant Planets: Inhomogeneous Evolution of Saturn =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9083 =20 Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Volcano Vents =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9082 =20 Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 05 May 2003 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9081 =20 France In Space #236 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9080 =20 Mars Picture of the Day: Martian Dust Devil Tracks =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9076 =20 Mars Express Story no 3: Mars, the Rusty Planet / ESA TV Exchanges / 06-0= 5-2003 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9072 =20 Update: United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D9071 =20 World's Largest Model Rocket Contest Blasts Off May 10th =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D11457 =20 Two Astrophysicists Chosen to Share Award As 2003 California Scientist of= the Year =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D11450 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C313D6.1A73ED80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C313D6.1A73ED80-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue May 6 11:16:06 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h46IG43j021204; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA00104 for public-list; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav8.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.112]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00100; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:52:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:51:39 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.17 by bay4-dav8.adinternal.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 17:51:38 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.17] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Asteroid Impact Puts Heat On Snowball Earth Theory Of Key Evolutionary Jump Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:51:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C313D6.911E3170" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 17:51:39.0223 (UTC) FILETIME=[2520CE70:01C313F8] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C313D6.911E3170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Baalke - Near Earth Object Program Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:36 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Asteroid Impact Puts Heat On Snowball Earth Theory Of Key Evolut= ionary Jump http://aca.mq.edu.au/acraman.htm Asteroid impact puts heat on Snowball Earth theory of key evolutionary ju= mp The Australian Centre for Astrobiology May 2003 Scientists studying rocks near an ancient asteroid impact structure in South Australian have uncovered evidence that could change current theories explaining how life on Earth rapidly diversified about 580 million years ago. Dr Kath Grey of the Western Australian Department of Industry and Resources' Geological survey and an ACA associate researcher, Prof Malcolm Walter, Director of the ACA and Dr Clive Calver of the Tasmanian Department of Mineral Resources challenge the idea that 'Snowball Earth' - an intense period of glaciation about 600 million years ago, triggered the evolution of simple life forms into more complex and familiar species. In the May edition of the international journal Geology, Dr Grey and her team put forward an alternative radical idea that 580 million years ago an asteroid impact played a pivotal role in this evolutionary jump. The impact, known as the Acraman event, smashed a hole in South Australia about four times the size of Sydney. Up until then, for the first three billion years of Earth's 4.5 billion year history, bacteria and simple algae had dominated life on Earth. "Then almost overnight geologically speaking, the ancestors of modern day animals and plants appeared in the fossil record about half a billion years ago," Dr Grey said. "The big question is what caused the rapid proliferation of life at that time?" Research by other scientists suggests the evolutionary burst of life between 600 and 540 million years ago was the result of an intense period of global glaciation. However, if the findings of Dr Grey's research prove correct, the cause could lie beyond our planet. Dr Grey, who has studied fossil plankton (single-celled green algae) from drill holes across Australia, has found that, as predicted by the Snowball Earth theory, bacterial mats and a few simple spherical species of plankton were the only organisms that managed to survive the intense ice age. "As the sea level rose at the end of the ice age, these spherical forms increased in number," Dr Grey said. "But there is no sign of a new species emerging at the end of the intense ice age to support ideas of the rapid diversification of life at this time." Dr Grey believes it wasn't until about 20 million years later more than 50 new and highly complex species suddenly replaced the small number of simple species in the fossil record. "What is really interesting is that the more complex spiny fossils appear just above a layer of rock in South Australia associated with the Acraman impact," Dr Grey said. In a related study, Dr Calver found significant carbon isotope changes mirrored Dr Grey's observations. Prof Walter has also noted that patterns associated with the Acraman impact were similar to those of mass-extinction and recovery events, and that a large asteroid impact could have produced conditions ideal for evolutionary change. "Later impacts, like the 65 million year old Chixulub collision in Mexico wiped out a diverse range of species, including the dinosaurs," Dr Grey said. "But with the Acraman impact, there were only a small number of species around and the time to cause a mass extinction event. "Most of the species that did survive were highly resilient, and had the ability to remain dormant through the cosmic winter that followed. When conditions improved, these species had an advantage over their competitors and were able to proliferate and diversify." Dr Grey and her team have reasoned that the ensuing plankton diversification must have played a vital role in the subsequent development of the animals dependent on plankton as a food source. ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C313D6.911E3170 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Baalke - Near Earth Object Program
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:36 PM
To: ljk4@msn.com
Subject: Asteroid Impact Puts Heat On Snowball Earth Theory Of= Key Evolutionary Jump
 
http://aca.mq.edu.au/acrama= n.htm

Asteroid impact puts heat on Snowball Earth theory of key ev= olutionary jump
The Australian Centre for Astrobiology
May 2003
=
Scientists studying rocks near an ancient asteroid impact
structur= e in South Australian have uncovered evidence that could
change curren= t theories explaining how life on Earth rapidly
diversified about 580 = million years ago.

Dr Kath Grey of the Western Australian Departme= nt of Industry and
Resources' Geological survey and an ACA associate r= esearcher, Prof
Malcolm Walter, Director of the ACA and Dr Clive Calve= r of the
Tasmanian Department of Mineral Resources challenge the idea = that
'Snowball Earth' - an intense period of glaciation about 600
m= illion years ago, triggered the evolution of simple life forms
into mo= re complex and familiar species.

In the May edition of the interna= tional journal Geology, Dr Grey
and her team put forward an alternativ= e radical idea that 580
million years ago an asteroid impact played a = pivotal role in this
evolutionary jump. The impact, known as the Acram= an event, smashed
a hole in South Australia about four times the size = of Sydney.

Up until then, for the first three billion years of Ear= th's 4.5
billion year history, bacteria and simple algae had dominated= life
on Earth. "Then almost overnight geologically speaking, the
a= ncestors of modern day animals and plants appeared in the fossil
recor= d about half a billion years ago," Dr Grey said. "The big
question is = what caused the rapid proliferation of life at that
time?"

Rese= arch by other scientists suggests the evolutionary burst of
life betwe= en 600 and 540 million years ago was the result of an
intense period o= f global glaciation. However, if the findings of
Dr Grey's research pr= ove correct, the cause could lie beyond our
planet.

Dr Grey, wh= o has studied fossil plankton (single-celled green
algae) from drill h= oles across Australia, has found that, as
predicted by the Snowball Ea= rth theory, bacterial mats and a few
simple spherical species of plank= ton were the only organisms that
managed to survive the intense ice ag= e.

"As the sea level rose at the end of the ice age, these spheric= al
forms increased in number," Dr Grey said. "But there is no sign of<= BR>a new species emerging at the end of the intense ice age to
support= ideas of the rapid diversification of life at this time."

Dr Grey= believes it wasn't until about 20 million years later more
than 50 ne= w and highly complex species suddenly replaced the small
number of sim= ple species in the fossil record.

"What is really interesting is t= hat the more complex spiny fossils
appear just above a layer of rock i= n South Australia associated
with the Acraman impact," Dr Grey said.
In a related study, Dr Calver found significant carbon isotope
c= hanges mirrored Dr Grey's observations. Prof Walter has also
noted tha= t patterns associated with the Acraman impact were
similar to those of= mass-extinction and recovery events, and that
a large asteroid impact= could have produced conditions ideal for
evolutionary change.

= "Later impacts, like the 65 million year old Chixulub collision in
Mex= ico wiped out a diverse range of species, including the
dinosaurs," Dr= Grey said. "But with the Acraman impact, there were
only a small numb= er of species around and the time to cause a mass
extinction event.
"Most of the species that did survive were highly resilient, and
= had the ability to remain dormant through the cosmic winter that
follo= wed. When conditions improved, these species had an advantage
over the= ir competitors and were able to proliferate and
diversify."

Dr = Grey and her team have reasoned that the ensuing plankton
diversificat= ion must have played a vital role in the subsequent
development of the= animals dependent on plankton as a food source.

------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C313D6.911E3170-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue May 6 16:24:12 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h46NOB3j026538; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id TAA06699 for public-list; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:03:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav131.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.161]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06693; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:03:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:02:45 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.17 by bay4-dav131.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 23:02:44 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.17] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:02:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C31402.07352780" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 23:02:45.0292 (UTC) FILETIME=[9AF8E6C0:01C31423] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C31402.07352780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: Space Environment Center Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:36 PM To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #03- 19 2003 May 06 at 01:20 p.m. MDT (2003 May 06 1920 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 28-May 4 Space weather has reached moderate levels. A geomagnetic storm occurred during the past week and reached category G1 (minor) levels on April 29th, category G2 (moderate) on April 30th through May 1st, and returned to G1 levels on May 2nd. This geomagnetic storm was due to high speed solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun and its interaction with Earth's magnetic field. A category R1 (minor) radio blackout occurred on April 28th at 9:59 P.M. MDT (May 29th, 0459 UTC) due to an energetic solar flare. A second category R1 radio blackout occurred on May 1st at 8:08 P.M. MDT (May 2nd, 0308 UTC). A very large sunspot region known to NOAA space weather forecasters as Active Region 349 was visible on the sun during the week. For a list of adverse system effects related to space weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales. Outlook For May 7-13 Space weather is expected to be at minor to moderate levels. Another large coronal hole with associated high speed solar wind is expected to cause category G1 geomagnetic storming early in the week. There is a chance that storming may reach the G2 level. Late in the week a previous active region is due to rotate onto the visible side of the sun and may produce isolated category R1 radio blackouts. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. For more information, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather Advisories Web site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127. The NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at Barbara.McGehan@noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288. ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C31402.07352780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Space Environment Center
Sent:= Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:36 PM
= To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov
Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook
 Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center<= BR>Boulder, Colorado, USA

SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #03- 192003 May 06 at 01:20 p.m. MDT (2003 May 06 1920 UTC)

**** SPACE = WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For April 28-May 4
Space weather h= as reached moderate levels.  A geomagnetic storm occurred
during = the past week and reached category G1 (minor) levels on April
29th, ca= tegory G2 (moderate) on April 30th through May 1st, and
returned to G1= levels on May 2nd.  This geomagnetic storm was due to
high speed= solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun and its
interaction with Ea= rth's magnetic field.  A category R1 (minor) radio
blackout occur= red on April 28th at 9:59 P.M. MDT (May 29th, 0459 UTC)
due to an ener= getic solar flare.  A second category R1 radio blackout
occurred = on May 1st at 8:08 P.M. MDT (May 2nd, 0308 UTC).   A very
la= rge sunspot region known to NOAA space weather forecasters as Active
R= egion 349 was visible on the sun during the week.  For a list of
= adverse system effects related to space weather storms, please refer tothe NOAA Space Weather Scales.

Outlook For May 7-13
Space wea= ther is expected to be at minor to moderate levels.  Another
larg= e coronal hole with associated high speed solar wind is expected to
ca= use category G1 geomagnetic storming early in the week.  There is a<= BR>chance that storming may reach the G2 level.  Late in the week a<= BR>previous active region is due to rotate onto the visible side of thesun and may produce isolated category R1 radio blackouts.

Data u= sed to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA,
USAF, = NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services
and oth= er observatories, universities, and institutions. For more
informatio= n, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather
Advisories Web s= ite http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127.
The NOAA Public = Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at
Barbara.McGehan@noaa.gov or (30= 3) 497-6288.
------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C31402.07352780-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue May 6 16:28:28 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h46NSQ3j026213; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id TAA06625 for public-list; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:01:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav71.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.101]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06621; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:00:33 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.17 by bay4-dav71.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 06 May 2003 23:00:33 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.17] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: NASA joins Team Encounter tech team Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:00:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C31401.B7D02460" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 23:00:33.0743 (UTC) FILETIME=[4C901DF0:01C31423] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C31401.B7D02460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Team Encounter L.L.C. Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:55 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: NASA joins Team Encounter tech team =20 NASA joins Team Encounter's tech team =20 Exciting news about our next mission! May 2003 =20 In this issue =20 -- NASA joins our technology team! =20 -- Cosmic Call 2003: Broadcast your message to the stars =20 -- Team Encounter announces new Name-A-Star product for Mother's Day =20 -- Cosmic Call scientist wins SETI Web site award =20 -- Team Encounter recognized at the Drawing Inspiration Awards in London =20 NASA joins our technology team! =20 We are proud to announce that NASA-Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC) ha= s joined our efforts to develop cutting-edge solar sail technology. =20 In a recently signed Memorandum of Agreement, NASA LaRC committed to prov= ide technical support in the design and development of the solar sail tha= t will be used in our forthcoming spaceflight, the Earthview Flight. =20 Read more information about this Team Encounter milestone... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Cosmic Call 2003: Broadcast your message to the stars =20 We have entered the final stage in our discussions with the National Spac= e Agency of Ukraine regarding the transmission date for our next mission,= Cosmic Call 2003. =20 You can include a photo, message, audio or video in this interstellar tra= nsmission, opened by none other than legendary broadcaster Hugh Downs. =20 More about this mission and how to participate.... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Team Encounter announces new Name-A-Star product for Mother's Day =20 Team Encounter, in cooperation with Britain's leading Name-A-Star service= , announces "Call Your Star" -- the only Name-A-Star product that also se= nds your message to the stars via a world-class radio astronomy dish. =20 Call Your Star is the one-of-a-kind Name-A-Star product where you: =20 Name a star in the night sky for yourself, a friend, or a loved one. =20 Announce your star's name to the universe in our next Cosmic Call deep sp= ace broadcast. =20 Write a message of tribute to someone special and send it to the stars. =20 Receive a handsome gift pack of information and collectibles. =20 Order now for Mother's Day... Visit www.CallYourStar.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Cosmic Call scientist wins SETI Web site award =20 The SETI League awarded its "SETI SuperStar Site" award for April 2003 to= the Web site of a member of the Cosmic Call science team. Dr. Alexander = Zaitsev, a senior scientific associate of the Russian Academy of Sciences= , conducts the Cosmic Calls from Ukraine. =20 Learn more about the SETI League's award.... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Team Encounter recognized at the Drawing Inspiration Awards in London =20 Team Encounter was recognized at the Drawing Inspiration Awards 2002 for = its contribution to the annual British national art campaign: "The Big Dr= aw." =20 See some of the impressive drawings inspired by Team Encounter.... Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 email: info@teamencounter.com =20 voice: 713-522-7282 =20 web: http://www.TeamEncounter.com =20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C31401.B7D02460 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
 
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From: Team Encounter L.L.C.
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:5= 5 PM
To: ljk4@msn.com
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Subject: NASA joins Team Encounter= tech team
 
3D" <= IMG height=3D80 alt=3D"Team Encounter - Humanity's First Starship" src=3D= "http://www.teamencounter.com/page_top.gif" width=3D600 vspace=3D2 border= =3D0>

NASA joins Team Encounter's tech team<= /FONT>

Exciting news about our next mission!

<= /P>

May 2003

In this issue =
-- NASA joins our technology team!
-- Cosmic Call 2003: Br= oadcast your message to the stars
-- Team Encounter announces new Nam= e-A-Star product for Mother's Day
-- Cosmic Call scientist wins SETI = Web site award
-- Team Encounter recognized at the Drawing Inspiratio= n Awards in London

NASA joins our technology team!
We are pro= ud to announce that NASA-Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC) has joined o= ur efforts to develop cutting-edge solar sail technology.

In a recent= ly signed Memorandum of Agreement, NASA LaRC committed to provide technic= al support in the design and development of the solar sail that will be u= sed in our forthcoming spaceflight, the Earthview Flight.

Read more informat= ion about this Team Encounter milestone...

Cosmic Call 2003: Broadcast your= message to the stars
We have entered the final stage in our disc= ussions with the National Space Agency of Ukraine regarding the transmiss= ion date for our next mission, Cosmic Call 2003.

You can inclu= de a photo, message, audio or video in this interstellar transmission, op= ened by none other than legendary broadcaster Hugh Downs.

More about this miss= ion and how to participate....


::::::= ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Team Encounter announces new Name-A-Star product = for Mother's Day
Team Encou= nter, in cooperation with Britain's leading Name-A-Star service, announce= s "Call Your Star" -- the only Name-A-Star product that also sends your m= essage to the stars via a world-class radio astronomy dish.

Call Your= Star is the one-of-a-kind Name-A-Star product where you:

  • Name = a star in the night sky for yourself, a friend, or a loved one.
  • Anno= unce your star's name to the universe in our next Cosmic Call deep space = broadcast.
  • Write a message of tribute to someone special and send it= to the stars.
  • Receive a handsome gift pack of information and colle= ctibles.

Order no= w for Mother's Day... Visit www.CallYourStar.com


::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Cosmic Call scientist wins SET= I Web site award
The SETI League awarded its "SETI SuperSt= ar Site" award for April 2003 to the Web site of a member of the Cosmic C= all science team. Dr. Alexander Zaitsev, a senior scientific associate of= the Russian Academy of Sciences, conducts the Cosmic Calls from Ukraine.=

Learn more about the SETI League's award....


::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Team Encounter recognized at = the Drawing Inspiration Awards in London
Team Encounter wa= s recognized at the Drawing Inspiration Awards 2002 for its contribution = to the annual British national art campaign: "The Big Draw."

See some of t= he impressive drawings inspired by Team Encounter....

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Contact Information
~~~~~~~~~= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: info@teamencounter.com
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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C31401.B7D02460-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue May 6 19:02:00 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4721x3j019090; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id VAA10063 for public-list; Tue, 6 May 2003 21:41:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav19.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.123]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10059; Tue, 6 May 2003 21:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 18:40:28 -0700 Received: from 65.149.164.67 by bay4-dav19.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Wed, 07 May 2003 01:40:28 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.164.67] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Status Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:40:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31418.0EB1CD90" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2003 01:40:28.0477 (UTC) FILETIME=[A37856D0:01C31439] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31418.0EB1CD90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:04 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Status MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Jane Platt 818-354-0880 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. News Release: 2003-069 May 06, 2003 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Status NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer successfully opened its telescope cover this morning at 4:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (1:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time). The cover deployment sequence involved the heating of a thermal actuator, which melted a wax pellet. When the wax melted, it pushed a mechanical pin, which in turn released the cover. This release enabled a spring-loaded hinge to swing open the cover. The cover is now safely stowed against the side of the spacecraft, where it will remain for the duration of the mission. Confirmation of successful cover deployment was received in real time at the Mission Operations Center at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia. On Sat., May 3, engineers began the process of turning on the science instrument. So far, they have powered up both the digital processing unit, which houses the main computer, and the detector front-end electronics box, which contains the photon discrimination and processing logic. The procedure went very smoothly. The spacecraft computer, mechanisms and heaters are operating properly, and telemetry and data have been routinely transmitted to Earth. The rest of this week ground controllers will put the spacecraft through its paces by sending it simulated sequence commands. Next week, the high voltage power supply will be gradually brought up to operational voltage. High voltage is essential for the telescope to gather the ultraviolet photons that will help scientists piece together the story of how and when stars form inside galaxies. The two weeks after launch serve as a decontamination period, when moisture and other materials absorbed by the spacecraft's paint and thermal blankets bleed away, or "outgas." Once the optic wheel is rotated into position, the telescope will begin gathering photons -- a milestone known as first light. This will occur on or about May 19. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission will image millions of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history, which is 80-percent of the way back to the Big Bang. Additional information about Galaxy Evolution Explorer is available at http://www.galex.caltech.edu http://www.galex.caltech.edu/ . JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission for NASAs Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. -end- ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C31418.0EB1CD90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:04 PM
To: ljk4@msn.com
Su= bject: Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Status
 MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTI= TUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PA= SADENA, CALIF. 91109.  TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.na= sa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Jane Platt  818-354-0880
J= et Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.      =

News Release: 2003-069       &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;   May 06, 2003

Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Sta= tus

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer successfully opened its teles= cope
cover this morning at 4:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (1:32 a.m.<= BR>Pacific Daylight Time). 

The cover deployment sequence in= volved the heating of a thermal
actuator, which melted a wax pellet.&n= bsp; When the wax melted, it pushed a
mechanical pin, which in turn re= leased the cover.  This release
enabled a spring-loaded hinge to = swing open the cover.  The cover is
now safely stowed against the= side of the spacecraft, where it will
remain for the duration of the = mission.  Confirmation of successful
cover deployment was receive= d in real time at the Mission Operations
Center at Orbital Sciences Co= rporation in Dulles, Virginia.

On Sat., May 3, engineers began the= process of turning on the science
instrument.  So far, they have= powered up both the digital processing
unit, which houses the main co= mputer, and the detector front-end
electronics box, which contains the= photon discrimination and
processing logic. The procedure went very s= moothly.  The spacecraft
computer, mechanisms and heaters are ope= rating properly, and telemetry
and data have been routinely transmitte= d to Earth.

The rest of this week ground controllers will put the = spacecraft
through its paces by sending it simulated sequence commands= .  Next
week, the high voltage power supply will be gradually bro= ught up to
operational voltage.  High voltage is essential for th= e telescope to
gather the ultraviolet photons that will help scientist= s piece
together the story of how and when stars form inside galaxies.=  

The two weeks after launch serve as a decontamination peri= od, when
moisture and other materials absorbed by the spacecraft's pai= nt and
thermal blankets bleed away, or "outgas."

Once the optic= wheel is rotated into position, the telescope will
begin gathering ph= otons --  a milestone known as first light.  This
will occur= on or about May 19.

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission will im= age millions of galaxies
across 10 billion years of cosmic history, wh= ich is 80-percent of the
way back to the Big Bang.  Additional in= formation about Galaxy
Evolution Explorer is available at http://www.g= alex.caltech.edu
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/ . JPL, a division of th= e California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Galaxy E= volution
Explorer mission for NASAs Office of Space Science, Washingto= n, D.C.

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------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C3153B.76FE7FF0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Thu May 8 06:26:26 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h48DQO3j025458; Thu, 8 May 2003 06:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id JAA25232 for public-list; Thu, 8 May 2003 09:02:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25228 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 09:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust227.tnt3.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([65.238.106.227] helo=office) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19Dl2h-0000Se-00; Thu, 08 May 2003 06:02:36 -0700 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20030508090021.00b8af00@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:03:12 -0400 To: "LARRY KLAES" , "setipublic" From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: Re: SETI public: Are ETI hiding their messages? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk At 08:26 AM 5/8/03 -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote: >Are aliens hiding their messages? >May 7, 2003 For my response, see "Considering Cosmic ConElRad" in the latest issue of Contact In Context: . -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS, FRCA Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Thu May 8 11:25:08 2003 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h48IP63j027584; Thu, 8 May 2003 11:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA01861 for public-list; Thu, 8 May 2003 13:54:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav76.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.106]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01818; Thu, 8 May 2003 13:52:49