Poster presentation for the BioAstronomy 2002 Conference, Hamilton Islands, Australia

Corrected by Dr. Mike Matessa, http://www.matessa.org/~mike/inter-comm.html

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Project METI@home: Messages to ETI from home

 

Alexander L. Zaitsev, IRE RAS

 

SETI@home consists of a receiving Arecibo antenna, a professional team (PT), and a two-way Internet connection between the PT and an army of S@h users, who load from the S@h server special software for digital signal processing. Project METI@home should solve the inverse problem, and therefore it must have an inverse structure, which is derived from S@h by replacing receiving and analysis of space radiation with synthesis and transmission of radio signals; in other words, by transitioning from a science of searching for alien Messages to an art of composing our own interstellar Messages. Thereby, METI@home will consist of several originators, which may load via Internet from a M@h server special software for the creation of analog and digital messages. The PT (Art Jury) makes an examination and selects the most impressive of these messages for their subsequent addressee transmission from Evpatoria or similar planetary radar to selected target stars.

 

Demo versions of special software for composition of four-color digital Messages, which were made by Erick Dickelman, is available at his "Interstellar Messaging" Central to the addresses: http://www.seti.housenet.org/test and http://www.seti.housenet.org/apps

 

The block diagram of inversion from SETI@home into METI@home is given below.

 

ETI as a Source of Information ↓ Fixed 305-m Arecibo Dish ↓ Addressless Receiving ↓ Low-noise Amplifier ↓ Professional Group SETI@home ↓ ↑ Main Internet Server ↓ ↑ A lot of user, who try to detect the old (already existed in nature) Interstellar Messages ↓ ↑ Terrestrials as a Customer of Information

I N V E R S I O N

ETI as a Customer of Information ↑ Full-circle 70-m Evpatoria Dish ↑ Address Transmission ↑ Power Transmitter ↑ Professional Group METI@home ↑ ↓ Main Internet Server ↑ ↓ A few authors, who created the new (not yet existed in nature) Interstellar Messages ↑ ↓ Terrestrials as a Source of Information