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Science Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there?
Science Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there? | Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there? |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Friday, 28 August 2009 | |
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Science DiscussionsThe transmission was undertaken by Hello From Earth as part of Australia’s National Science Week and the International Year of Astronomy. Prior to today’s transmission from the Tidbinbilla complex, messages sent from around the world were collected on the Hello from Earth website, exported as a text file and sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California earlier this week, where it was encoded, packaged and tested. The Hello From Earth website was established by COSMOS magazine and designed and built by Australian IT services provider, eNerds, who also developed and implemented the backend database technology used to collect and store messages. eNerds’ managing director, Jamie Warner, said today the company was “pleased to be part of Hello From Earth and to have provided the IT infrastructure to facilitate communication with a planet outside our solar system.” Mind you, getting a message to Gliese 581d, let alone getting a timely response, or indeed any response at all, requires a hell of a lot of patience, despite Gliese being the closest planet to earth which we’re told can potentially harbour life. CONTINUED page 2 |
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