SUBJECT: Q & A ON PROJECT SETI FILE: UFO2744 Sun 26 Apr 92 2:05 By: Don Allen To: All Re: Q & A on "Project" Seti ** Forwarded from Usenet ** ========================================================================= From: Bob_Dixon Subject: What is the Current Status of Project SETI? Date: 21 Apr 92 15:21:57 GMT In response to Jon Noring's questions of Apr 17: There is no such thing as Project SETI. SETI is just an acronym that stands for a particular field of research, like brain surgery. There are many Projects around the earth, run by many different people and organizations, that are engaged in the field of SETI. The longest-running SETI program on Earth is the one at here at Ohio State. Another very important one is at Harvard. The only other continuous program is one started recently in Argentina. NASA plans to start their own program next October, using various radio telescopes around the world (primarily NASA-owned). The SETI detection protocol discussed earlier on this newsgroup formalizes the distribution of any discoveries, making it unlikely that they could be classified. But even without that, classification does not seem to be a real threat. No government has ever mentioned such a possibility. Nobody in a position to classify anything knows what is going on day-by-day at any observatory. Surely the scientists involved will notify one another at the various observatories before making any announcement. By then it will be too late for classification to make any difference. Bob Dixon Director, OSU SETI Program ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************