[FPSPACE] On the Artificiality of Pulsars and Re: SETI public: Search for Extraterrestrial Visitation (SETV): A Scientific Search for Visitation From Extraterrestrial Probes

[Alex Michael Bonnici]

Hello Daniel,
             I agree with you. One of the problems I had with the OPEN SETI
article was with regard to the distribution of Pulsars in the Milky Way Galaxy
either. Another problem I had with the article in the OPEN SETI site was the
statement that most Super Nova explosions take place towards the Galactic
centre. Wouldn't most Super Nova explosions occur in the Galactic plane near
the spiral arms where we find the highest concentration of interstellar gas,
and, thus the most active sites for stellar birth and evolution (including
stellar death). The reason I became interested in the possibility that Pulsar
may be extraterrestrial artefacts was the October 2000 issue of Popular
Mechanics mentioned this idea.

   But, again I must ask the question: Does anyone here have any background
information concerning Dr. Paul LaViolette? Has he ever published any work in
a peer reviewed journal?

   Alex Michael Bonnici


Daniel Boyd Fox wrote:

> I looked at the pages and was not impressed.  I would be interested in
> taking a look at Dr. Paul LaViolette's book though, just to see what his
> arguments are and if they look reasonable.  I will say a lot of what I saw
> on his webpage was what I consider pseudo-science.
>
> The Open SETI pages argued that SETI was not scientific.  They argue that
> no hypothesis are tested and no data is gathered.  I guess they don't
> consider setting limits on the distribution of interstellar science as
> science.
>
> 73,
> Daniel Fox
> KF9ET
>
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alex Michael Bonnici wrote:
>
> > Search for Extraterrestrial Visitation (SETV): A Scientific Search for
> > Visitation From Extraterrestrial Probes
> >
> > Hello Gang,
> >             I found a number of interesting articles concerning the
> > Search for Extraterrestrial Artefacts, in particular Bracewell/Von
> > Neumann at the following web site: http://www.setv.org/  and also some
> > interesting references concerning Dr. Paul LaViolette's theories on the
> > possible  artificiality of Pulsars, and there use as Interstellar Radio
> > Beacons at the OPEN SETI web site:
> > http://www.zeitlin.net/OpenSETI/Opening.html in particular at the
> > following sub page:
> > The Forgotten Challenge: Pulsars
> > http://www.zeitlin.net/OpenSETI/OSPulsars.html. Dr. Paul LaViolette also
> > has his own web site at: http://www.etheric.com .
> >
> > Is anyone taking any of LaViolette's ideas seriously? To be quite frank
> > The Welcome to the Sphinx Stargate and The Open SETI pages seem to
> > combine pseudoscientific ideas with mainstream science. There is allot
> > of reference given to the ideas recently popularize by Robert Bauval and
> > Graham Hancock concerning lost civilizations, Atlantis, and Global
> > Catastrophes.
> >
> > Does anyone here have any background information concerning Dr. Paul
> > LaViolette?
> >
> > Alex Michael Bonnici
> >
> > httop://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8505
> >
>
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