'Whales Sing to the
Stars'
'Whales Sing to the Stars' event for Earth Day, 2005.
"From before our first Earth Day event in Los Angeles in 2002, when
we had a partner play along with our humpback whale songs CD, we
wanted to feature live whale songs along with musicians joining in.
This year we can do that through whalesong.net as well as beam the
whale songs towards Sirius through DeepSpaceCom.net.", says Project
Director Paradise Newland, of Sirius Institute.
"We feel it is important to invite the Cetacea, the oldest sentient
race on the planet to our Earth Day and listen to them,' says Dr.
Michael Hyson, research director of the Sirius Institute.
"While Humpback songs were part of a recording put aboard the
Voyager spacecraft sent to Jupiter and beyond, this is the first time
that a live feed of the whales will be broadcast directly into space.
According to Deep Space Communications Network's Jim Lewis, the
signal, broadcast with a five-meter parabolic dish antenna, will be
detectable out to some 3.5 light years. Perhaps someone out there with
better detection gear could hear our signal at the star Sirius, about
8.6 light-years (ly) away."
"We are working with other groups like America's Whale Alliance **
to bring
attention to them and some of their challenges."
In addition, there is an 18 foot humpback whale joining us from the
Volcano Hiccup Circus so the participants at Earth Day will see a
whale, hear the live songs from the whales while they are being beamed
out to deep space and hear some excellent music.
This is the first major outreach project of the Cetacean
Commonwealth, which celebrates its 3rd. anniversary this Earth Day.
Its purpose is to speak and act on behalf of the Cetacea while
encouraging interspecies communications that will enable them to speak
on their own behalf.
Dr. Hyson and Ms. Newland will be on hand to handle questions about
their work, the Cetacean Commonwealth and the lives of the Cetacea,
dolphins and whales at the upper lanai. Just look for a whale of a
tale ...
The Cetacean Commonwealth with the cooperation of:
Sirius Institute, *PlanetPuna*
Whalesong.net, Deep Space
Communications Network
Whales to sing to the stars on Earth Day 2005
Press Release from
Deep Space Communications Network
Listen to the Humpbacks Live from Maui
provided by the WhaleSong
Project
Orca Sounds Beluga Whale Sounds
See story at Space.com
"Beamed into Space: Whale Songs"
We also are thankful for the participation of the following
organizatiions in our Earth Day event at the University of Hawaii,
Hilo:
Hawaii Community College
www.hawaii.hawaii.edu/
Volcano Hiccup Circus
www.hiccupcircus.com/
Community Technology Center
http://www.ctc-hawaii.com
America's Whale Alliance
www.americaswhalealliance.org/
They
will be at Earth Day in Los Angeles
Preserving & protecting the
whales
Singing Whales....
...picked up by the Whalesong hydrophone...
...are linked to the Internet ...
...and on Earth Day, April 22, 2005 will be...
Broadcast to the stars!
by Deep Space Communications Network
PRESS RELEASE
April 20, 2005
For Immediate Release
For further information contact:
Paradise Newland or Dr.
Michael Hyson at:
Sirius Institute
PO Box 1645
Puna, Hawai'i 96778
808 965
965 9667 or Dr. Hyson 965 1892
Email:
SiriusInstitute@yahoo.com
See: www.planetpuna.com
cetaceancommonwealth@yahoo.com
The Cetacean Commonwealth is pleased to announce an original
collaboration between the:
Sirius Institute at: www.planetpuna.com/sirius
*PlanetPuna* the
Aloha Planet at: www.planetpuna.com
The Deep Space Communications
Network at DeepSpaceCom.net,
The Whalesong Project at
Whalesong.net,
We also are thankful for the participation of the following
organizatiions in our Earth Day event at the University of Hawaii,
Hilo:
Volcano Hiccup Circus at: www.hiccupcircus.com/
Hawaii Community
College at: www.hawaii.hawaii.edu/
Community Technology Center at:
http://www.ctc-hawaii.com
America's Whale Alliance at:
www.americaswhalealliance.org/
See:
Press Release from Deep Space Communications Network
Sirius Institute is a tax-exempt research consortium with the
purpose of "dolphinizing" the planet. This means the integration of
the Cetacea (dolphins and whales) into our culture. A second goal is
the "humanization of space" which involves the settlement of the solar
system and beyond.
Whalesong is a group of volunteers dedicated to inspiring
stewardship of the oceans and the environment, and to helping "give a
microphone" to important voices so they may be heard above the noise
of the modern world. We believe that the voices of the natural world,
and of Hawaiian and other native cultures that have a connection with
that world, carry inspiration and mana’o (wisdom) that can help carry
humanity into the future in a more benevolent way.
Deep Space Communications Network is a private organization located
right next 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.
Deep Space communication Network uses state of the art satellite
broadcasting equipment with redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers
connected by a traveling wave-guide to a five-meter parabolic dish
antenna.
** Americas Whale Alliance (AWA) will deliver its Earth Day message
from a huge, 35 foot "Whale Bus," with hand-painted whales adorning
its sides and outfitted to emit whale sounds along the way. Trailed by
a 25-foot inflatable humpback whale, the bus is outfitted to show
educational videos and provide information about threats to whales to
schools and whale watching sites on the West
Coast.
