NationStates Jolt Archive


Lindimese Press Release - Search for Alien Intelligence

Lindim
25-04-2005, 00:24
General Press Statement to the World Community
Issued by Lerla Gradus, Ministry of Science and Technology
timestamp – 24042005wstcal, 1301gmt

Over the past year, Lindim has been operating, in conjunction with the Tenb University's Astronomy, Biology, Astrophysical, and Space Tech Departments, and also the aWen Corporation, a farm of satellite dishes spreading of several square kilometers in the Northern Jearian Plains.

There has been speculation within and without Lindim as to the nature of this “dish farm.” We can assure everyone that it is not part of a wide-area receiving system, used for the collection of satellite communication signals in the field of intelligence gathering. It has always been Lindimese national policy never to violate the right to privacy without just cause.

These satellites dishes are part of one of the largest extra-terrestrial detection systems every built. In addition to the Kulowui Large-field Telescope, which searches for Earths similar to our own, this “dish farm” scans a wide range of frequencies from all over the night sky, and parses them with a distributed supercomputing environment originally designed by Schultaria Prime.

This DETS, or Discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Signals Project, is, once again, a completely benign operation. If any scientific institution would like access to the raw data collected by the dishes, they are available through the TAPRES-loan program at Tenb University.
Lindim
25-04-2005, 01:24
ooc: Bump as second RP post comes up...
Lindim
25-04-2005, 17:22
ooc: Remember, this is just a cover for the main RP thread, "Life, Out There?"