Posted on 09/01/2004 2:36:56 PM PDT by longshadow
nerd-like ping
My tinfoil hat is still on from the previous post about the new planets found...
Signal Decoded: Tell John Kerry we KNOW that he was in Vietnam!
"...or is ET phoning home?"
ET's child is teasing the Earthlings again. "Bad Gork. Stop that!"
About time we.
I am over 10,000 units and 100,000 hours of computing at Seti.
Smile ET is looking at you.
ping
This one fact more than anything suggests an artefact or anomaly of the array.
Can we send Jody Foster to investigate . . ., again?
> My tinfoil hat is still on ...
Sounds like the SETI team is being very cautious.
Keep in mind that they had to break this story. Had
they not, someone else would have, with incomplete
info, and no effort to frame alternate explanations.
If ET is out there, and transmitting stuff we can grok,
expect numerous false alarms before paydirt.
The problem I have with the whole effort is what I'd
call the "technological window". The typical civilization
may transmit easily comprehensible signals for only a
century or two, a very brief period relative to the
life of that civ. We may be looking for one-shot
flashcubes.
Imagine Marconi intercepting a CDMA cell phone signal
in 1920 (heck, even a simple FM signal) on his primitive
AM gear. It would have been gibberish. Increasingly, the
stuff we send looks more and more like noise.
Now if ET is deliberately trying to reach us, that's
a different ballgame.
How many hours and units are you up to?
Just think....if it is a signal and we answer it, we will get an answer in about 2000 years! Astronomical distances just boggle the mind.
"Hello, I'd like a pizza to go, no anchovies."
It could also be the deflector dish on a warp rider ship.
Most likely it's a hydrogen jet from an unseen black hole, but I like the other two prospects more (unless they're coming to seek revenge for us having broadcast My Mother The Car 35 years ago). You gotta think outside the box.
Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization...
SIMPLY SEND 6 TIMES 10 TO THE 50 ATOMS OF HYDROGEN TO THE STAR SYSTEM AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, CROSS OFF THAT STAR SYSTEM, THEN PUT YOUR STAR SYSTEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND SEND IT TO 100 OTHER STAR SYSTEMS. WITHIN ONE TENTH OF A GALACTIC ROTATION YOU WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH HYDROGEN TO POWER YOUR CIVILIZATION UNTIL ENTROPY REACHES ITS MAXIMUM! IT REALLY WORKS!
Acknowledged.
185 Units. 2171 hrs. 42 mins. How about you?
This sounds somewhat like the kind of behavior one might expect from a Bracewell Probe. Can't wait to see the followup from mainstream astronomers, if any.
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