Time Away With SETI In West Virginia
Looking at the sky at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia.
Keith’s note: On this day in 1997 the film “Contact” hit theaters etc. I wrote something in 1997 about a visit I made to West Virginia, Green Bank, hanging out with Jill Tarter, and driving around radio telescopes in a diesel taxi cab. I am posting this from a climber’s hostel in New Hampshire which seems appropriate. “Going Off Source: Time Away With SETI In West Virginia“.
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That was a great read. I used to work for the DSN (before I moved into the flight side) and am also a climber. As you may know all three complexes are surrounded by rocks. I always wanted to get three photos one for each complex of me climbing with an antenna in the background. The Contact producers came to Goldstone to see the 70m but seemed to think lots of smaller dishes lined up is more dramatic than just one huge dish. A friend of mine came from the effects industry and did work on Contact – he’s always wear his “International Machine Consortium” t-shirt when we visited Goldstone.