TEXT: Mould on Mars.

Recent dicoveries of exoplanets within 80 light years of our solar
system bring confirmation of AAA's belief in our destiny amoungst the
stars. Many had thought the difficulty at finding exoplanets pointed to
our "special" status and began dragging up arguments that haven't seen
the light of day for many centuries. Now in switzerland and the USA
scientists working on limited budgets have confirmed the existence of
exoplanets through detecting the gravitional wobble of stars caused by
the close presence of an orbiting planet. Now that NASA has reluctantly
begun to fund their own work they are bringing themselves one step
closer to a programme that they could have begun years ago. With
experiments that detect the drop in light levels from a star as a planet
crosses its face, promising to yield detection of earth size planets (as
opposed to the jupiter sized ones already found), we could see the
number of potential life-bearing destinations growing rapidly. The
Americans have begun to eulogise to their children about staring at a
picture of an alien world and looking up to the stars. The indicators
are clear in this respect and whilst minds are open the AAA must take
its opportunity to spread the message of autonomous astronautics, for it
may take another millenia for our dreams to be realised and the seeds of
autonomy must be sown now.

A Trillion Channels and nothing on.

The current failure of the SETI project is unsurprising. Loaded with
technical and existential assumptions it represents an icon of cold war
mentality. The recent development of the trillion channel SERENDIP IV
listening supercomputer represents an opening up of this field,
especially as teams outside of the SETI mentality get access to the
equipment. The AAA is not prepared simply to sit, listen and wait. We
propose an active programme of attempts to communicate with other
planets.

PROJECT: "postcards for 51 pegasus"

Radio Free Earth Began its narrowcasts into new spaces on June 23rd
1997. As part of its summer season of broadcasts to the stars ('100
light years of entertainment') RFE intend to celebrate the 2nd Galatica
Confrenza of the AAA in Bologna (the site of one of three new SERENDIP
IV listing stations) now proposes to point its data transmitters to 51
Pegasus for this special event. Send your
messages/pictures(GIF/JPG)/sounds(AIFF)/URL of greeting to the potential
inhabitants of any planets orbiting this earth like star to
aaa@deepdisc.com. The messages will be launched on the 18th April from
10pm onwards from the Bologna Link centre.

TECH NOTE:

RFE uses a variety of orthodox and non-orthodox delivery techniques from
Directed Analog RF using X.25 through to pyschic channelling. The AAA
assume that if the inhabitants can receive radio broacasts they can also
do crypto, however to make this easier the messages may be re-formatted
to include regular headers denoting data type and language as used in
the HTTP protocol. Thus before broadcast all messages are formatted as
web pages, if you want to do your own page then send us the URL and we
will link in to our programme.

Oceania AAA