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Astronomer tells Athens audience: E.T. liable to phone any day
The Athens News ^
| 11/13/06
| Andrew Tillotson
Posted on 11/13/2006 7:03:45 PM PST by KevinDavis
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posted on
11/13/2006 7:04:25 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
To: KevinDavis
Theres not much evidence of intelligent life in the USA.
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11/13/2006 7:05:02 PM PST
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Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: KevinDavis
Oh yes sure.
Number of stars discovered so far? Trillions.
Number of stars with planets? Around a hundred or so.
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posted on
11/13/2006 7:06:22 PM PST
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bvw
To: KevinDavis
...E.T. liable to phone any dayNow that's great cell phone reception!
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11/13/2006 7:09:41 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
To: bvw; All
So far... More will be discovered....
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11/13/2006 7:10:11 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
To: KevinDavis
what might happen when we find it. Actually our problems begin when THEY find US... Even were we able to detect signs of intelligence out there we would have no way of commmunicating with them for perhaps hundreds of years, they on the other hand.... We now return to Grover's Mill NJ.
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11/13/2006 7:13:54 PM PST
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Well, if out own technological development cycles are a clue, andf it should be for there is a real type of evolution, and that is of ideas -- then the more techogically evolved a culture the more quiet its emission spectrum will be. Noise-less, tempest-class low.
SETI is bunk.
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posted on
11/13/2006 7:23:17 PM PST
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bvw
To: KevinDavis
I don't think so. Plantery formation, imo, is rare. Very, very rare. The dynamics of many bodies are so unstable.
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11/13/2006 7:25:13 PM PST
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bvw
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11/13/2006 7:26:11 PM PST
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bvw
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11/13/2006 7:43:19 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
To: bvw
To: Rome2000
True, but I'd bet that there is some kind of freakish exoskeleton being covered up my Nancy Pelosi's taut facial skin so E.T. may already be here. Kind of like the bug wearing a human skin suit in "Men In Black".
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11/13/2006 8:47:08 PM PST
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43north
(7 of 11 living things are insects. This explains liberals and islamofascists.)
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...and not long after, a Russian email spam company will blanket an extraterrestrial civilization with bogus online pharmceutical offers.
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11/13/2006 11:21:55 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/13/2006 11:22:56 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:40:43 AM PST
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bvw
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:42:10 AM PST
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bvw
To: KevinDavis
Why is it that the more advanced we get, the more parallelistically-advanced we expect any possible ET's to get?
"Any day" wouldn't necessarily be now for other beings. A billion years ago could have just as easily been their "any day." BTW: SPELL CHECK ALLOWED MY "parallelistically" to go through. I thought I was making up a new word!
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:45:47 AM PST
by
bannie
To: KevinDavis
Only around 200 planetary systems discovered after diligent searching. See
here for example. I said "trillions of stars", okay that was hyperbole. Yet there may be, including estimates of the ones in galaxies we've observed. Yet the count we can now make? Close to a billion or so.
Most modern catalogues are generated by computers, using high-resolution, high-sensitivity telescopes, and as a result describe very large numbers of objects. For example, the Guide Star Catalog II has entries on over 998 million distinct astronomical objects. Objects in these catalogs are typically located with very high resolution, and assign designations to these objects based on their position in the sky. (Wikipedia, here)
So exactly what is 200/1,000,000,000?
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11/14/2006 3:58:04 AM PST
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bvw
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