From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:53:43 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356 (fwd)
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>> Speaking of which, do the current SETI programs check for signal
>> modulation using polarization.

Speaking of SETI, their current intent is to do a distributed
computation spread across thousands of computers, similar to some of the
keycracking efforts.  Details at http://www.bigscience.com ;
the Recent News section says they're currently trying to figure
out about funding.  Meanwhile, there's www.mersenne.org for
factoring big prime numbers.

Tim wrote:
> Nothing in quantum teleportation has been shown to propagate 
> signals faster than light. (If you don't believe me, look into it.
> Start by reading the FTL discussions about Bell's Theorem.)
But I thought Jim Bell had a solution to .....  :-)

				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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