Deep Space Communications Network

Video of possible Alien found in Russia

2011-04-19T11:52:00.001-07:00

Have you seen this video of a possible Alien found in Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bMGatrWkG2c

What do you think? Real or unreal?

Has anyone sent a message into deep space concerning our need as humans for help

2010-05-14T12:38:00.000-07:00

Vegas Lydia sent this message to Deep Space Communications network, www.deepspacecom.net

I want to share it with our visitors and see if anyone wanted to respond. Thanks, Jim

Has anyone ever sent a message into deep space (directed at M13) concerning our need as humans for help of any kind?

Has anyone tried to send a message regarding our desire for open communication?

Have we sent for info on sustaining our natural environment?

Their views on politics? Technology? Religion?

How long they have known of our existence?

Why doesn't SETI try harder? http://www.seti.org

I believe that we as humans should be more involved with trying to communicate with them. If a grey showed up at my doorstep, I'd be talking about a whole array of issues and asking for help. Obviously they know more than we do, and it seems to me that they have no intentions of hurting us, they are curious, but I think they'd be more than willing to help or at least provide us with useful information.
Why wouldn't they want a friendly neighbor?

I appreciate your time, thanks for reading, Vegas Lydia

Any responses I receive I will forward to Vegas. Thanks again, Jim

Can't Wait For Answers

2009-02-03T03:45:00.000-08:00

February 1, 2009 marks the four year anniversary of Deep Space Communications Network. It was four years ago that DSCN first offered the public a means to transmit messages into Deep Space.

In the last four years Deep Space Communications Network has sent nearly a hundred transmissions containing a wide variety of messages including: messages collected on www.craigslist.org ; 'live whale sounds"; messages from the listeners of "The Space Show" www.thespaceshow.com and most recently the entire motion picture "The Day the Earth Stood Still" .

This four year anniversary is significant too, as it has been estimated that transmissions by DSCN may travel up to four light years and still be detected. So, now we just have to wait, maybe another four years to see if anyone out there responds. Hopefully, our friends at the SETI Institute www.seti.org will let us know.

What do you think they will send us? A movie review?

What should we send out into space?

2009-01-28T06:43:00.000-08:00

The debate of what messages we send into space is a long and old one.

Many argue we should only send Earth’s best, such as Bach or Van Gogh, but would that really be a fair representation of Earth?

Some may say that sending only the greats would more like bragging then trying to communicate.

I think if you really think about it, having Deep Space Communications Network send the movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still out into space gives a fairly accurate representation of Earth and how Earth may react to an Alien Visitor. If you don’t agree, tell me what you would send; The movie ET? Obama's last speech?

Hello From Earth

2009-01-21T07:04:00.000-08:00

The technology and commitment behind the transmitting the movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still” into Deep Space.

When Twentieth Century Fox originally contacted Deep Space Communications Network they asked for us to beam the signal to an exoplanet planet that had been found in the last few months. We immediately explained the difficulties of hitting objects in space and that we did not have the capability to accurately calculate paths to hit specific targets and so we at DSCN DO NOT make any guarantees about where the signal goes.

Many may think that you simply point your transmission dish at target over four light years away and it goes there. This is incorrect. First of all, the point you are looking at is many years
old. You could point and then listen to four year old information because that is an accurate target right now, but sending a signal there is more complicated. Targeting a transmission to a point in space involves projecting years of movement during the long duration of time the transmission has to travel; the earth is rotating so you would need a computer controlled dish that moves to counter acts the earth’s movement (during a 2 hour transmission the earth turns about 5 degrees); as the signal travels it will may encounter magnet fields and other items that affect the transmissions path, amplitude and clarity. A simple example of how complicated this may be would be the old example of trying to throw a ball to someone on the other side of
a merry-go-round. If you threw it straight at the person you would miss them because you would be throwing the ball where they were not where the person or target will be when the ball arrives. So, even if we at DSCN beamed straight at Alpha Centauri as Oberg suggests there would be no guarantee the signal would go there. This why in the Deep Space Communications Network contract with for transmission with Twentieth Century Fox there was no guarantee to target any specific location.

Alpha Centauri is on the closest stars to earth, but it is quite low (about 1 degree) above the horizon here at Cape Canaveral and as I explained to Seth Shostak we could not and would not point a transmission that low in elevation as it would potentially interfere with terrestrial microwave.

What DSCN did tell Fox was that the signal would most likely travel three to four light years, which is the distance several astronomers and engineers, not working for DSCN, have calculated our transmissions would travel. During contract negotiations with Fox they asked a number of questions: how far is three to four light years, would the signal go as far as Pluto, and if so how long would it take to get there, so I sent them the chart below.

Planets & Galaxies Destination Distance from Earth (light-years) Time
at Light Speed
Moon 0.000000038 1.1991888 seconds
Sun 0.000016 8.41536 minutes
Mercury 0.0000095 4.99662 minutes
Venus 0.00000476 2.5035696 minutes
Mars 0.0000076 3.997296 minutes
Jupiter 0.0000666 35.028936 minutes
Saturn 0.000135 1.18341 hours
Uranus 0.000285 2.49831 hours
Neptune 0.00046 4.03236 hours
Pluto 0.0006183 5.4200178 hours
Alpha Centauri 4.27 4.27 years

In the press release they sent me to review for my quote Fox had included this chart. The release/chart had Alpha Centauri on it, but in the press release DSCN reviewed the release DID NOT state the signal would get to any of the places listed on the chart. Maybe by including the chart, Fox implied the signal was going there, but sending the signal to Alpha Centauri was never really discussed by FOX or DSCN.

Deep Space Communications Network does not imply or try to imply that DSCN is related to NASA and nothing could be further from the truth. If you go to our website www.deepspacecom.net you will find the following statement right on our home page: Deep Space Communications Network is a private organization located right next to
the Kennedy Space Center. DSCN was formed specifically to communicate with outer-space by a group of broadcast engineers and communications experts that regularly transmit from the space center. I think you will have to agree that we are very clear that DSCN is private organization. Our facility is located in the City of Cape Canaveral. These are facts. We have registered our name with the State of Florida and we do not mislead our clients about the services we provide.