Information which may possibly be used to increase membership of WCG. It may be possible to transfer maybe a small percentage of the million plus users of SETI@Home DC project to WCG if this event takes place. Question is: How to get attention of Seti@Home users that WCG is an alternative if Cell Phones are OK'd on airplanes and picocell solution is not instituted.




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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 09, @03:45PM

from the but-he-needs-those-reeses-to-live dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "If, as recently mentioned, the FCC does allow wireless access on airplanes, could it effectively mean the end of the search for ET? NewScientist has a new article that explains how radio interference from airborne cellphones could drown out faint radio signals from space. Among other concerns astronomers have is that the second harmonic of many cell phones falls in a frequency band that reveals the molecular signature of newborn and dying stars, which is among the 2% of frequencies in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum reserved for use by radio astronomers. Michael Davis, director of projects at California's SETI Institute, stated that a single cellphone on an airplane 100 miles from a radiotelescope could exceed recommended radio noise levels by 10 times. A potential solution that astronomers have suggested is to install a miniture cell transceiver on each airplane, called a picocell, that would act as a relay using a frequency that wouldn't interfere with their work."

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