Project Phoenix wraps it up.

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post, but here is the most
recent in the month-long series of articles, posted on the finish
dated of the SETI Institute's Phoenix at Arecibo dated December 12,
2003 titled - Technology and Time - by Dr. Peter Backus, Observing
Programs Manager

http://www.seti.org/ao_11_03/

where he compares older SETI technology to the miniaturized new
systems.

And if you missed the long-running series of articles posted from
Arecibo, you can find them on a side-bar at the above link, they were
titled:

Once More into the Breach, The Penultimate Trip, Finding Radio
Frequency Interference, Signals and Noise, The Art of Packing Light,
Day and Night, Time To Move Up, Food Thoughts, Thanksgiving in
Arecibo, 2003, Patience, But is it Professional?, Life Without Lovell,
A Day Off, What a Difference a Week Makes!, The Birthday Present, The
Big Picture, A Common Cold in Uncommon Circumstances, Other
Intelligent Life… at the Observatory, AND Technology and Time.

I hope that somebody is archiving this stuff, it might make an
interesting book (Journals of the Intrepid SETI Scientists, B.E.T.
(before extra-terrestrials)

The historical significance would be priceless.

Regards, Jason H.

(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post,...
....snip...

and here it is

Beginnings and Endings and … - by Dr. Peter Backus, Observing
Programs Manager (Dec. 15, 2003)

http://www.seti.org/ao_11_03/index.php?id=48

"...Some metrics: over the years, we’ve spent about 2,400 hours,
or 100 days, using Arecibo to search for signs of communications
technology from hundreds of nearby stars. So far, no luck. Perhaps
when we return in February for the last run of Project Phoenix,
we’ll find the right star and frequency. I remind myself each
visit that we are barely scratching the surface here; the numbers of
stars and hours we’ve logged are small by astronomical scales."

So does this cover all of the goals of the original NASA High
Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS)? I wonder what the original
pre-congressional cut projected budget was versus what was actually
spent (kinda tend to think it was much much cheaper without a
government bureaucracy, but also slower without the money.) Also,
even though I (and perhaps others) was bitter about the congressional
cuts, they seem to have been fortuitous in retrospect, leading to the
SETI Institute's many life-science investigations, and causing Phoenix
and ATA to rise from HRMS's ashes (perhaps a confirmation of what
Henry Ford once said "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.").

Regards, Jason H.

_______________________

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a
certain amount of scratching for what it gets. - Henry Ford

(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post,...
....snip...

and here it is

Beginnings and Endings and … - by Dr. Peter Backus, Observing
Programs Manager (Dec. 15, 2003)

http://www.seti.org/ao_11_03/index.php?id=48

"...Some metrics: over the years, we’ve spent about 2,400 hours,
or 100 days, using Arecibo to search for signs of communications
technology from hundreds of nearby stars. So far, no luck. Perhaps
when we return in February for the last run of Project Phoenix,
we’ll find the right star and frequency. I remind myself each
visit that we are barely scratching the surface here; the numbers of
stars and hours we’ve logged are small by astronomical scales."

So does this cover all of the goals of the original NASA High
Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS)? I wonder what the original
pre-congressional cut projected budget was versus what was actually
spent (kinda tend to think it was much much cheaper without a
government bureaucracy, but also slower without the money.) Also,
even though I (and perhaps others) was bitter about the congressional
cuts, they seem to have been fortuitous in retrospect, leading to the
SETI Institute's many life-science investigations, and causing Phoenix
and ATA to rise from HRMS's ashes (perhaps a confirmation of what
Henry Ford once said "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.").

Regards, Jason H.

_______________________

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a
certain amount of scratching for what it gets. - Henry Ford

(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...
(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post,...
...snip...

and here it is

So does this cover all of the goals of the original NASA High
Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS)? I wonder what the original
pre-congressional cut projected budget was versus what was actually
spent (kinda tend to think it was much much cheaper without a
government bureaucracy, but also slower without the money.) Also,
even though I (and perhaps others) was bitter about the congressional
cuts, they seem to have been fortuitous in retrospect, leading to the
SETI Institute's many life-science investigations, and causing Phoenix
and ATA to rise from HRMS's ashes (perhaps a confirmation of what
Henry Ford once said "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.").

Regards, Jason H.

We'll come close to the goals for the HRMS Targeted Search but,
unfortunately not the HRMS Sky Survey. The equipment developed for
NASA's Sky Survey was partially funded by the Deep Space Network and
couldn't be loaned.

I'll be compiling statistics after Project Phoenix completes
observations at Arecibo on March 4.

The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and was doing "life science"
research since 1985. When the NASA HRMS was cancelled in October
1993, the SETI Institute had something like 15 other research grants
or cooperative agreements from NASA. These other projects were all
"life in the universe" research.

(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...
(Jason H.) wrote in message . com...

Perhaps Dr. Backus might make a final post,...
...snip...

and here it is

So does this cover all of the goals of the original NASA High
Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS)? I wonder what the original
pre-congressional cut projected budget was versus what was actually
spent (kinda tend to think it was much much cheaper without a
government bureaucracy, but also slower without the money.) Also,
even though I (and perhaps others) was bitter about the congressional
cuts, they seem to have been fortuitous in retrospect, leading to the
SETI Institute's many life-science investigations, and causing Phoenix
and ATA to rise from HRMS's ashes (perhaps a confirmation of what
Henry Ford once said "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.").

Regards, Jason H.

We'll come close to the goals for the HRMS Targeted Search but,
unfortunately not the HRMS Sky Survey. The equipment developed for
NASA's Sky Survey was partially funded by the Deep Space Network and
couldn't be loaned.

I'll be compiling statistics after Project Phoenix completes
observations at Arecibo on March 4.

The SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and was doing "life science"
research since 1985. When the NASA HRMS was cancelled in October
1993, the SETI Institute had something like 15 other research grants
or cooperative agreements from NASA. These other projects were all
"life in the universe" research.