Re: OT - Enough to Gag a Maggot

[Adams Douglas <adamsd@xxxxxxx>]

Brian Eric Farnell wrote:
> 
> 
> An odd thgought that springs from this that may actually be of
> real use for the VMS.  Those SETI guys crunch an awful lot of
> data.  I know it's of a very different nature, but I wonder if
> their methods have any application?  They basically are looking
> for set patterns not caused by natural phenomena in a sea of
> noise with little preset notions as to what they are looking
> for.  Perhaps it might lend itself to picking out oddities and
> identifying patterns...Anyone know more about the subject?  

SETI searches attempt to detect narrowband signals that do not show thermal
or other frequency spreading characteristics. Very little is searched for
in terms of signal content. Just about all naturally produced signals have
a large bandwidth. We already know the VMs was created by intelligent
beings, so we're way past what SETI searches look for.

-Adams
 (formerly at NASA, JPL Deep Space Network)

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