Eric Schmidt wrote:
> Have you done anything lately with insect vibratory communications?
> Anything else =93strange and cool=94 you=92ve been doing?
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> Eric
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Eric,
I don't do anything directly with insects but am familiar with David
Dunn's super important work with bark beetles.
The only other thing "strange and cool" that I engage in intensively is
radio astronomy with Jupiter and its moons. I use short wave radios and
have been recording the audio of Jovian radio emissions since the
mid-1990s. I have hundreds of hours of Jovian storm emissions and radio
burst episodes in my archives. What makes my own work with Jupiter
different from most others is that I am into passing my recordings
through spectrographs and dissecting the burst clusters as minutely as
possible. Then I look for any possible "signature" or pattern that might
lay within. In this way I feel like I am a practicing "nature recordist"
looking for some innate languaging in the burst qualities. Whereas SETI
is looking for some string of intelligence from the far reaches of outer
space I keep having an intuition that some aspect of the Jovian
planetary system may have developed some sort of controlled beaconing or
signalling in its own way. So, I spend many hours peering and listening
deeply into one second long spans of my audio recordings.
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It is totally interesting for me and maybe my audio recordings and
spectrographs will be useful to data miners in the future. Who knows?
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http://www.heliotown.com/Jupiter_SETI_Cellular_Automata_Ashcraft.html
http://www.heliotown.com/Jupiter_Pulse_&_Power.html
Thomas Ashcraft
New Mexico
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