[MinuteGal]

Bookmarking to read later - much later.

Leni

[B4Ranch]

The LINK is bad.

[Quilla]

Ping for palo

Love,
Quilla

[hoot2]

slow news day; or someone havin' a tough time gettin' to sleep?

[SunnyUsa]

The transmission lasted a little under three mintues (167.9 seconds) and was completed by modulating the frequency back and forth by about 10Hz (or 10 bits per second). The Arecibo Human Template was transmitted on a frequency of 2,388 MegaHertz which is significant. Arecibo is capable of the range between 1,000-3,000 MHz. 1,679 digits in the transmission are extremely important because 1679 is the result of 2 prime numbers, 23 and 73 or 23*73.

Oh god, is this a word problem? I forgot to study!

[MarkWar]

>We made contact - with aliens that is - this time they responded.

Umm, this kind of post is little different really from those people who believe Madonna is in love with them, or Julia Roberts is in love with them...

Only instead of sending love letters to Hollywood and believing they're getting "responses" these people are sending bursts of radio waves to space and believing they're getting "responses."

I'd say you're about as likely to get an "intelligent" response from this stuff as you would if you'd sent a post card to Mariah Carey... Mark W.

[Lazamataz]

We made contact - with aliens that is - this time they responded.

And they said, in a really scratchy and static-y transmission:

I'll have a quarter pounder with cheese, no ketchup, and can you supersize the fries and Coke?

[Diojneez]

The most interesting experiment in 1974 with Arecibo however was it's 3 Terawatt narrowband transmission of

Whenever I see "it's" (the contraction for "it is") confused with "its" (meaning "belonging to it"), I immediately lose 50% of my interest in anything further the writer has to say.

[Some hope remaining.]

We also sent, as the human race, our average height, and a rough proportional representation of our bodies. The population of our planet earth, which in 1974 was estimated as 4.29 Billion Humans was also transmitted.

We also transmitted the capabilities and locations of all our defense installations and closed the message with this final friendly plea: "Occupants of Earth will soon be unarmed. Please do not abduct or invade us." :-P

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

People of Earth, you may have just won two million gelbwoks ...

[tophat9000]

Please ex-Texan not this stupid crop circle crap!

[vikingerik]

"We made contact" and are about to make them citizens so we can have solve their problems and add to ours, etc....

[DallasSun]

OMG! This will surely get one of those profound "This story has legs." "Follow the money." "Remember folks, you heard it here!"

[Le-Roy]

I just have to ask...

...have any of you jokers actually read the whole article?

Convince me that humans made these designs in the field.

[DouglasKC]

I would think that if an alien race had the technology to make a picture in a wheat field, then they would have the technolgy to communicate in a clearer method.

[RightOnline]

Well, I read it. Bookmarked it. All I can say is...............

Positively brilliant.

[FReethesheeples]

Beam me up, Scotty.

Serioously, Intelligent life elsewhere is probable to the point of essential certainty.

The numbers of Suns and planets in the big U are simply enormous beyond any comprehension.

Its interesting to know the components of our attempted communications with e-ts.

Someday this will be a reality.

pPerhaps not yet or perhaps not in our lifetime or for a few hundred lifetimes; perhaps sooner.

Who knows.

[purple haze]

I stopped reading the moment he used "light-years" as a unit of time.

[VRWC For Truth]

Contact??? We don't need no stinking contact!

[splint]

Heard this on ART three weeks ago. Very "entertaining!" I'm still a little skeptical, but now that OUR FREEDOM was attacked, nothing suprises me.