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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
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This effort preceded SETI by over a century. As far as I know, this is the first proposal to communicate with life not of this earth.
How prophetic can you be? It was indeed reserved for Americans to establish communication with other bodies in the solar system.
Frank Drake - a young radio astronomer working in West Virginia - independently fashioned an experiment to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. On April 8, 1960, he aimed a 26-meter radio telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank at two nearby stars. Sweeping his single-channel receiver up and down the microwave band, Drake spent several weeks listening for extraterrestrial signals. Known as Project Ozma, this was the first modern SETI search.
It's probable that this method was put forward by Carl Fredrich Gauss (1777-1855) who in 1820 apparently suggested drawing an enormous pythagorean triangle on the Siberian tundra. In 1840, the Vienna Observatory's Joseph von Littrow suggested digging great trenches to form geometric shapes. The trenches would be filled with kerosene, and lit on fire at night. Gauss eventually went so far as to suggest 100 heliotropic mirrors synchronized to beam light at the moon.
Compare to planetary telegraphing from In the Deep of Time (1879) by George Parsons Lathrop, the ether-traffic from The Duel on the Asteroid (1932) by P. Schuyler Miller (w/D. McDermott), the Interplanetary Communications Center from QRM - Interplanetary (1942) by George O. Smith and the Quantum Communications Hub from Defeated (2004) by Sean McKee.
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