Don't Eat Humans

Alien communication radio telescopes now both listen and talk in the new project SETI

DON'T EAT HUMANS
You remember the Don't eat me conversation in the previous blogs. Our calling cards sent into outer space on board the Voyager spacecrafts, Pioneer, and Apollo Moon landings were essentially food menus for hungry aliens. A new type of program, Active SETI, attempts to contact and befriend aliens so they can help us defeat hungry aliens.

Potential bad alien flicking the finger

Even the giant radio telescope Arecibo sent a message to M13 globular star cluster with 300,000 stars in 1974 with our address. Potentially this could reach 3.6 million planets and numerous aliens.

Potential good alien

After we blogged this idea, of keeping our calling cards to ourselves and let those those hungry mean aliens lie sleeping wherever they may live, the notion became popular and has appeared in the news many times, about keeping our heads low in silence and our transmitters aimed inwards instead of outwards. Now it's time to introduce a new approach, after Earthlings have stupidly already sent out numerous calling cards and messages to billions of other worlds with our address saying come find us.

Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico sent our address to 300,000 stars

Extremely small indeterminate Alien, size doesn't matter in the Universe

Gaming depiction of a potentially hungry alien

The new approach is to make as many good alien friends as possible, and should the mean aliens arrive to eat us, we will contact our advanced allies for help.

A new division of project SETI is now transmitting instead of receiving, aimed towards the intended billions of stars and planets.

Let's hope these humanly messages reach more friendly aliens than hungry aliens.

Large radio telescopes like the Parks 64-meter Radio Telescope are capable of conducting SETI programs. Active SETI programs require the ability to transmit messages through the antenna and need special transmitters and equipment. The frequencies are at the so-called watering hole, in the centimeter microwave electromagnetic region of the spectrum, which has the best capability to penetrate interstellar dust and gas in the far regions of space.

Don't Eat Us Safety Program - Radio Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/07/dont-eat-us-safety-program-radio.html

Alien Life Postcard
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/07/alien-life-postcard.html

How to Avoid Dangerous Aliens
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/03/how-to-avoid-dangerous-aliens.html

Alien Life in the Galaxy and Universe
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/06/alien-life-in-galaxy-and-universe.html

Aliens Exist
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/03/aliens-exist.html

Unknown Super Intelligence
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/03/unknown-super-intelligence.html

Active SETI / Stephane Dumas
http://www.activeseti.org/default.html

Active SETI Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI

The Importance of Active SETI
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/12/08/douglas-vakoch/importance-active-seti

Arecibo Radio Telescope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo,_Puerto_Rico 

Life in the Galaxy

Stars in the galaxy

LIFE IN THE GALAXY
Way back when astronomer Drake formulated the famous Drake equation for life in the galaxy, he determined the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy alone to be around one million.

This week, astronomers recalculated that there are 11 billion possibly habitable planets in our galaxy, greatly upping the odds that we're not alone in the universe. Researchers used four years of data from NASA's orbiting Kepler telescope to compute how many planets lie in their solar systems' "Goldilocks zone," where surface temperatures support liquid water. They found that one in five sun-like stars harbors a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone, and the nearest may be only 12 light-years away — possibly close enough for communication. Given the sheer number of candidate planets, says astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, "surely some of them have all the necessary attributes of life."

Worlds beyond the solar system harbor intelligent life

We believe as space telescopes improve in resolution and capability, it won't be long and we'll discover intelligent life in the galaxy. Those in-space galactic neighbors only a dozen light years away may provide world changing communications. Why not? Many of our space probes take decades to return useful information. Communicating with advanced civilizations where it takes 10 or 20 years for a steady stream of data to reach us will not be unusual.

Sources and References
http://theweek.com/article/index/254523/the-biggest-scientific-breakthroughs-of-2013

Brain Knitting

The first pre-brain knitting experiment

BRAIN KNITTING
The Big Brain Initiative is working on the creation of an evolutionary knitted electronic brain, made from impetus Parallax Propeller microelectronics, that can predetermine its own growth destiny.

In this remarkable one-of-a-kind experimental project, Predetermined Growth Destiny is basically putting together a structural outline of "primordial state" processors and letting the mix evolve into a brain.

Using PGDs, applications could include pre colonization of planets like Mars, growing brains automatically in the lab, evolving the growth of an existing brain, and growing parts for human bodies.

Initially parts grown could conjure a multitude of machines and machine parts as well. The patterns for PGDs would work well with three dimensional printers, knitting new brains in a relatively short period of time.

PGDs could result in armies of brained workers that could do mining on asteroids, explore the Solar System, and interface with conditions that humans would find inhospitable. PGDs could also result in appendage brain concatenations for humans to extend their functions.

Near Space Launch Night May 2

Space Agency waiting lobby

A GREAT NIGHT TIME NEAR SPACE LIFT-OFF
This was the second Near Space Launch on Thursday night May 2nd, 2013, with a goal to nighttime deploy and test the Tiny Space Telescope on stars and planets.

Massive craft engine

After a 1.5-hour wait in the Space Agency's Waiting Lobby, the annexing space center was approached where the massive spacecraft engine was being inspected by five technicians.

Near Space flight was underway during the night after 7pm. Spacecraft buffeting occurred as the craft rose through the clouds and overcast following the launch. The ride became smooth when the craft was positioned on top of the weather front's ceiling. The telescope was started and the night sky was monitored all throughout the night flight.

Near Space Telescope's 1st photo

Safety Ejection System

At two miles altitude, the clouds and haze dissipated and the sky began to clear. At about mid-range at the seven mile altitude mark, stars and planets were visible in a very dark night sky. Unfortunately the cockpit lights would not turn off and the cockpit flooded the window with reflections and bright light. This was reduced as much as possible by make-shift shielding and real time monitoring through the pixel viewer and moving the telescope to least reflective field of view.

Space Transport to and from launch facilities

The Tiny Near Space telescope was immediately engaged and was a success, capturing astro fields where stars and planets were visible. The image shown was taken during spacecraft motion downrange with the small term anti-motion system engaged. Short image motion trails still ensued due to spacecraft buffeting motion during the image's CCD integration time. The sensor was placed in an automatic mode, capable of up to 28,000 ISO. Data is captured, saved with the image file, and played back later for review.

Earth grid tracking to touchdown

Images were shot through the multiple layered viewing port in the cockpit. At the left side of the viewing port, condensation formed in between the layers and was noticeable, therefore the telescope was repositioned towards the upper right portion of the port. The photo resulted from the attitude and orientation of the spacecraft — good luck attributed to the known flight path and the clear skies at the highest altitude. During the time of flight, the Last Quarter Moon was not yet visible (an early morning sky object).

Space facilities structure

The first image taken with the Tiny Space Telescope shows a star / planetary field of view in the upper right corner. The image was cropped only for internal lighting reflections from the spacecraft's view port. More data processing and study will continue over the next several days and weeks.

The space program project concludes that it is possible to lock onto a star or planet for spacecraft celestial navigation, and a Tiny Near Space Telescope can conduct astronomy on star fields and planets during the mission. 

Lucky Shot Venus Jupiter Conjunction

Lucky shot through clouds

BIG BRAIN PROJECT'S LUCKY CONJUNCTION SHOT

THIS IS A LUCKY SHOT showing the current Venus-Jupiter-Aldebaran Conjunction as the objects popped into view through openings in cloud cover.

Astro Image Details

The astro image was obtained at 4:23:12 am on Thursday July 12th 2012 with the Canon Powershot S95 eye at ISO 1,600 and a setting of f/2. The 1/2 second exposure recorded this pre-sunrise view of Taipei 101 with clouds illuminated by the city lights and a number of stars.

Processing
Processing is with Apple iPhoto 11 v9.2.1 running on the Big Brain's Right Brain with activated 724 processors. This is a screen shot from the original 2736 x 3648 5.2 MB JPEG image. (processing to reduce file size, increase contrast to 100, adjust white balance AWB, sharpen 95, adjust highlights 100, set shadows 9, increase definition 100, verify temperature 21, adjust exposure to 0.79, set saturation to 56 and de-noise at 33.

Celestial Objects

Venus is the lower brightest object. Venus is said to appear as a small crescent shape in a telescope at its current distance of 44 million miles. Jupiter is seen above Venus - the gas giant is currently 530 million miles away. Note the star just to the immediate right of Venus. This is Aldebaran in the Hyades Star Cluster, located in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Click on the photo for a larger image showing more stars in this early morning view.

Sky Chart
The star map is only approximate as the locations of Venus and Jupiter have changed. Note the small star cluster towards the top known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.

Wax Eye

Big Brain Gets a Wax Eye

Now don't say "ewe" too quickly as this simple eye uses technology from optics (a single double convex lens) and a piece of waxed paper from a local grocery store. The wax paper is the image forming element and the lens projects the image onto the paper. A sensor or camera is placed behind the paper and photos the image in real time using macro mode. It works well on brighter objects, terrestrial, the Moon and brighter Planets, depending on the diameter of the lens.