I can't recall in whose Livejournal I read about Richard Carrigan's recent paper. He speculates about the dangers of inimical software possibly buried in SETI signals.

All the discussion on the Web seems to be coming from an article in The Guardian.

You can read more about his ideas in "Do Potential SETI Signals Need to Be Decontaminated?" (it ( Read more... )

I am pleased to see that Dr. Dick Steiner, who was my lab partner at Notre Dame in many of our physics classes, has made the news with new, more precise results for measuring the kilogram electronically.


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