OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONS (including wild leaps)
Kent Steadman

In my preliminary research I am finding a strong correlation between the
the SETI institute's project SERENDIP designed in Berkeley and piggybacked on
1,000-foot dish at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope 
in the world, AND the Marci-Butler team extrasolar planetary search.

Dr. Geoff Marci is the astrophysicist recognized for his extrasolar planetary 
discoveries; I've always wondered what Dr. Paul Butler's role is on the team?
Well Paul Butler is from U.C. Berkeley!  Eureka!  SETI!

So the scenario reported goes like this:

"Soon after the planets' discovery was announced, SETI (the search for extra terrestrial 
intelligence) ran a quick check on their records, and discovered a number of anomalous 
signals coming from the direction of 70 Virginis. While warning that there is only a 
slight chance that the signals are alien in origin, the team from SETI SERENDIP 3 project 
has announced that they intend to carry out a new search of the 70 virginis area... "

HOWEVER:  The characteristics of the the discovered planet around 70 Virginis is described 
in AWESOME detail--in fact, too detailed for a planet so far away.

"Defining characteristics of this planet include that it is at least eight times the mass 
of Jupiter, its orbit is much smaller than Jupiter's, and its temperature allows water to 
exist in liquid form - like on the Earth. Life on Earth is based on liquid water - could 
life exist here too?"

So I'm wondering which comes first the chicken or the egg, the signal or the planet?

Does the SETI SERENDIP scanning of the heavens trigger the search for the planet 
instead of the other way around?

And what kind of probe system is SETI-extrasolar REALLY using--same old-fashioned Hertzian 
wave signals (vibrating banjo strings)---or something else altogether?

"After completing his work in Polyphase and High Frequency Alternating Currents, Tesla 
made a discovery which forever altered the course and nature of his experimental research. 
Whether purposefully or inadvertantly, thissingular discovery has been completely overlooked 
by those who claim to know ghis work best. A single article and statements made in several 
of his lectures affirm the conviction that Tesla, while working with violently abrupt
electrical discharges, discovered A NEW FORCE." 

SECRETS OF COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY by Gerry Vassilatos 
TESLA: GIFT FROM THE COSMOS? 
http://members.aol.com/phikent/tesla.htm

I'm thinking the key to the mystery might lie in Tesla and Maxwell theory--prior to when 
the Michelson-Morley experiment tossed away the fact of aether.  Was this a diversion?
see:  
Dramatis Personae of Aether Drift
http://carnap.umd.edu:90/phil250/aether_drift/dramatis_personae.html

And my ultimate question is: can ordinary folks, outside the ivory tower, sometimes make 
astonishing CONTACT with other worlds using some principle within mind itself?

"At the basis of matter exists mind."  Lorentz

Kent Steadman

P.S.  help much needed--especially to locate a credential-astronomer to call SETI.
I think such a call placed by an artist like myself might be wasted.