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Vol 8 No 4, Autumn 2002 SearchLites Vol. 8 No. 4, Autumn 2002 The Quarterly Newsletter of The SETI League, Inc. Offices: Refining our Focus 433 Liberty Street PO Box 555 by H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., Executive Director Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA When The SETI League was born, now nearly eight years ago, founder Richard Factor envi- sioned it as a ham radio club for advanced microwave experimenters, and I prepared its Vision and Phone: Mission Statements accordingly. Project Argus, our first major scientific effort, contemplated (201) 641-1770 Facsimile: thousands of amateur radio telescopes, built and operated by dedicated ham radio operators, coor- (201) 641-1771 dinated in a global search for radio emissions from distant civilizations. We’ve achieved modest Email: success in inching toward that lofty goal, and in fact a microwave search for ETI still seems like a [email protected] pretty good idea. But, as the sailor says, time and technology wait for no man. Web: www.setileague.org That the focus of SETI is shifting is demonstrated by the diversity of papers to be found in the President: Proceedings of our first two SETI League Technical Symposia. The expected papers on micro- Richard Factor wave receivers, amplifiers, and antennas are there, to be sure. But they have been joined by excel- Registered Agent: lent treatises on Optical SETI, Gamma ray bursters, interstellar probes, Lunar radio astronomy, Marc Arnold, Esq. space archaeology, panspermia, and a host of related and not-so-related topics. SETI is no longer Secretary: solely the domain of ham microwave geeks; today we embrace new approaches, fresh challenges, A. Heather Wood and unprecedented opportunity. Treasurer: Martin Schreiber, CPA The SETI League’s Strategic Planning Committee, composed of seven members (including Executive Director: three volunteer Regional Coordinators, our President, Secretary, Executive Director, and a mem- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. ber of our Advisory Board), is tasked with keeping us on course through social, political, and Trustees: technological change. In recent months they took a look at our published goals, and decided it Richard Factor was time to tweak them into alignment with our current reality. On that Committee’s recommen- Marc Arnold dation our Trustees approved, at the 2002 Board meeting, the first ever revision to our stated Vi- Martin Schreiber sion and Mission. Advisory Board: Anthony Agnello The changes just approved are subtle, and symbolic. They do not change our prime focus Sir Arthur C. Clarke (pun very much intended). Rather, they broaden it, in recognition of recent developments. Gone Robert S. Dixon, Ph.D. from our Vision Statement is its original, restrictive wording about microwave experimenters. Frank D. Drake, Ph.D. Now, it merely states: Malcolm I. Raff, Ph.D. Clifford Stoll, Ph.D. Recognizing that confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence will change forever SearchLites, ISSN 1096-5599, our view of humanity's place in the cosmos, The SETI League, Inc. envisions a worldwide is the Quarterly Newsletter of network of amateur and professional scientists working together to hasten our entry into The SETI League, Inc., a the galactic community. membership-supported, non- profit [501(c)(3)], educational Similarly, a few points in our Mission Statement have been made somewhat less restrictive. and scientific corporation, For example, where previously Point 5 called for providing a medium of communication “through dedicated to the electromag- netic Search for Extra- journals, meetings, conferences, and electronic means,” now it has us “providing a variety of fo- Terrestrial Intelligence. SETI rums and media for wide-ranging communication among SETI experimenters, enthusiasts, and League, Dr. SETI, and the organizations.” Exactly what those forums and media might turn out to be in the future, we cannot above logo are all registered (and ought not) specify today. Similarly, to Point 8, which previously called for “raising public service marks of The SETI consciousness as to the importance and significance of a broad-based Search for Extra-Terrestrial League, Inc. Entire contents Intelligence,” we’ve now added “that encompasses a variety of strategies.” copyright © 2002 by The SETI League, Inc. Permis sion is You can read the entire Vision and Mission statements, as amended, on our website at hereby granted for reproduction <http://www.setileague.org/general/mission.htm>. The original version will still be kicking in whole or in part, provided credit is given. All opinions around for a while, on the thousands of membership brochures that were printed before the expressed are those of the changes were made. The differences are not worth wasting trees over, but they may become im- individual contributors. portant in the months and years ahead. For what is SETI but a glimpse into humanity’s future? v Page 1 SearchLites Volume 8, Number 4 -- Autumn 2002 Guest Editorial: Now, yes, there is an excellent argument against intelligent SETI and God design. Sure, the parameters of this universe seem carefully by Robert J. Sawyer tweaked — but what if there are countless other parallel uni- verses, or there were countless other big-bang/big-crunch cy- Okay, here's a thought: what if an Encyclopedia Galactica cles before the current one, and each of those universes had is radioed to us by aliens, and it contains proof of the existence different physical constants? If you have enough rolls of the of God? dice, the winning comb ination is bound to come up eventually I'm not talking about the God of the Bible or the Torah or by pure chance — no need for any sort of God. the Qur'an. But I am talking about an intelligent designer — a Right now, we don't know if such parallel universes ex- creator of the universe. isted or do now exist. But someday we will know. Maybe not I'm a science-fiction writer, and, despite our antithetical in a decade, maybe not in a century, maybe not in a millen- worldviews, I like to quip that SF writers and creationists have nium. Eventually, though, our science will answer that ques- a lot in common: we both try to twist the evidence science has tion. uncovered into the most dramatically interesting interpretation. But perhaps we won't have to wait. If the "L" in Drake's For instance, a few years ago, astronomers announced that famous equation — the lifetime of a technological civilization some stars seemed to be billions of years older than the uni- — isn't capped by a tendency for all thinking beings to destroy verse. themselves, SETI may give us access to knowledge that we Well, that was a perfect SF conundrum, and I wrote a wouldn't otherwise obtain for millions of years. And that novel about it (the Hugo Award-nominated Starplex), in which knowledge might include the revelation that we exist inside a beings in the far future were sending stars back in time to in- supracosmic petri dish, that our universe is somebody else's crease the mass of the early universe so as to slow its expan- science project. sion. And at that point, even though we might have only begun But young-earth creationists had already had a go at a to communicate with extraterrestrials, we'll have another quest similar problem. They think the world was created around 4000 ahead of us, for a new level of contact — with our own creator. B.C., which makes it hard to account for the starlight from the SETI, you see, will never end, so long as it's turtles all the way Andromeda galaxy seeming to be two million years old. "Ah down ... hah!" they crow. "A clever intelligence must have created the Editor's Note: Nebula Award winning science fiction au- universe with that starlight already en route to us!" Both my SF solution and the creationist spin are fantastic. thor Robert J. Sawyer specializes in first-contact scenarios, in But the difference between SF writers and creationists is that books such as Starplex, Illegal Alien, Factoring Humanity, and we writers usually aren't as likely to believe the stories we his latest novel, Hominids, just out from Tor. His 2000 novel make up. Calculating God was edged out for the Hugo Award by Harry Still, what if, through SETI, we do receive that long hoped Potter. Rob lives in Ontario, Canada, and writes knowledgea- for repository of all the knowledge of an infinitely more ad- bly about SETI. For more information, see his web site at: vanced race? sfwriter.com. v And what if, as I suggested above, it includes proof that we live in a created universe? A ridiculous premise for a science-fiction writer to be dis- Announcing: cussing, you say? Not at all. SF has long been full of created universes, from Theodore Sturgeon's "Microscopic God" through Gregory Benford's Cosm. True, those were sub- universes within our own, made by humans. But remember the woman who didn't believe that Earth re- The SETI League’s Third Annual Technical Sympo- volved around the sun, but rather asserted that it sat on the back sium, Awards Banquet and Membership Meeting of a giant turtle? When asked what the turtle was sitting on, she Mark your calendar now for the best SETICon ever, replied, "It's turtles all the way down." If we can conceive, in scheduled for the weekend of 25 – 27 April 2003. Help us our best speculations today, of creating a universe, why could- celebrate the tenth anniversary of Congress canceling the n't this universe, the one we call home, be the product of some- NASA SETI program, by showcasing a decade of progress in one else's science experiment? privatized SETI.
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