Re: (not really) VMs: MY prediction for 2004

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Grant wrote:
> 
> I have always believed that we are missing a trick: if the VMS text
> could be transmitted in such a way that it appeared to be arriving from
> space, it would energize the resources of the entire SETI community to
> try to crack it.

	Hm.  I don't know whether that would be good or bad. 
Would that mobilize a lot of useful resources, or just
mobilize a lot of cranks?  <smirk>

	I used to follow the UFO scene, but got tired of it. 
As Jung said when it all started, it's a laboratory
example of a myth in the making.  What's sad is that
it's already become a boring cliché.  

> Incidentally, I wonder if there is any application for the "SETI@home"
> approach (i.e. little applets running on thousands of idle PCs)
> vis-a-vis the VMS?

	I read that Jim Gillogly's Cypherpunks set up a
network along these lines to solve a decipherment
problem.  But, as Nick said, we can't agree on a
solution algorithm to start with.  

Dennis
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