<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Dear NRAO:<BR>
Like most Space Nuts, I am very interested in finding planets that could support life, something like our own, here on Earth. Not to long ago, I was watching a documentary about some of the ways life may have started here on Earth. Several times they mentioned Lightning as the Initial Spark. That gave me an idea for a way to spot potential life bearing planets. If you first studied the signatures or spectrums of Lightning on the Sun, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, you would find that their Lightning signatures would be as different as spectroscopic signature of light. It may even be able to hear the Schuman Resonance of Stars, Gasballs and Rocky cored planets. After a period of study, we could subtract the signatures of Stars and Gasballs and what would be left would be Rocky Cored planet lightning signatures. This doesn't mean every planet with lightning would have life, nor does it mean that a Rocky Cored planet without Lightning doesn't have life. A very old civilation, may still be living on a Planet like Mars. If you found a Planet with lightning, the next step would be to tune the Antennas to the same frequencies that we radiate into space, to include Radio, TV and industrial hash. It wouldn't cost much to try it and who knows what you'd find. Don't let the idea that there's lightning on stars, throw you. Aim an antenna at the Sun and listen. The electrical discharges that produce the RF you will hear is NOT produced at the core by fusion, it would never work it's way to the surface and be radiated out, it would be absorbed by the gasses it passes and turned intro heat first. If you receive thise E-mail, would you please let me know?<BR>
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Sincerely:<BR>
John J Redelfs<BR>
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