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   PART 2                                   
                                      
                                      
                                   SETI 2   
           Last year, OE REPORTS had an interview with Dr. Monte Ross of Laser   
       Data Technology Inc., in which he described his thoughts about the   
       search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the optical spectrum.  At   
       that time, I was unaware of Dr. Ross's work.  Last January, I had just   
       published electronically on Internet a very long paper on the subject   
       in this Electronic Journal.  This was the six-part article in THE   
       ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE ATLANTIC (EJASA,   
       Vol. 3, No. 6A-6F).   
      
           As a result of my electronic paper, during the summer I was asked   
       by Dr. David L. Begley of Ball Aerospace Systems Group to organize a   
       special session on Optical SETI (OSETI) for SPIE as part of the OE/LASE   
       '93 symposium.  David Begley is the previous chairman of the Free-Space   
       Laser Communications conferences.  The Optical SETI event was originally   
       planned to be a single session in SPIE's Free-Space Laser Communication   
       Technologies V conference, chaired by Dr. Stephen Mecherle of TRW, Inc.   
      
           Even though summer was a difficult time to start organizing a   
       conference, I was able to get so many papers at short notice that the   
       single session was extended into a dedicated conference with three   
       sessions and a separate published proceedings.  The latter will be   
       available as SPIE Volume 1867 after the conference and will constitute   
       the first publication on this subject.  The conference will be held   
       on January 21-22, 1993 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton Hotel and   
       immediately follows the Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies V   
       conference.  The Optical SETI conference cochair will be Monte Ross.   
       This event is effectively, though unofficially, the First International   
       Conference on Optical SETI.   
      
           This SETI event will be of particular interest to laser communi-   
       cations scientists and engineers.  It presents the opportunity to help   
       resolve the dichotomy within NASA that while lasers are fine for GEO   
       to GEO, GEO to LEO, deep space, and interstellar communications, ETIs   
       would not use such technology to signal emerging technical civilizations   
       (us).  The first session will bring the laser communications community   
       up to speed on microwave (conventional) SETI and general SETI related   
       matters.  The second and third sessions are specifically devoted to   
       optical SETI topics.  Many shades of opinion are included.   
      
           We are fortunate in being able to have Arthur C. Clarke kick off   
       this conference from his home in Sri Lanka.  This will be a videotaped   
       address.  These days, Clarke's health precludes extensive traveling. We   
       are also investigating the possibility that NASA Select TV could cover   
       the entire conference on a live or tape-delayed basis.  If you cannot   
       attend this conference but would like to see it transmitted by NASA   
       Select, write to SPIE and NASA Headquarters requesting this coverage.   
       The more people lobby for this, the more likely is the cooperation of   
       the concerned parties.  For those with a TVRO (TeleVision Receive Only)   
       satellite dish, NASA Select TV is available on Satcom F2R (72 W),   
       Transponder 13.   
      
           Among the 16 papers scheduled:  Dr. David Brocker, who heads NASA's   
       High Resolution Microwave Survey, will give the keynote paper on NASA's   
       search for evidence of extraterrestrial technologies (Dr. Peter Backus   
       will now be presenting this paper).  Drs. David Latham and David   
       Soderblom will discuss the strategies for the SETI star targeting   
       survey and Drs. Michael Klein and Samuel Gulkis from JPL will describe   
       the high-resolution all-sky survey.  The "Grand Old Man" of SETI,   
       Dr. Bernard M. Oliver, who is extremely critical of the optical   
       approach, will demonstrate for the first time to the laser communi-   
       cations community why ETIs would not use lasers for SETI interstellar   
       communications.  Professor Frank Tipler, a strong critic of SETI, will   
       explain why both microwave and optical SETI is a waste of time, since   
       he thinks that we are the first civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.   
      
              
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