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Next year, scientists will send messages to search for aliens
cnet.com ^ | Daniel Oberhaus

Posted on 09/14/2017 9:58:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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1 posted on 09/14/2017 9:58:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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I would prefer someone find intelligent life in Washington D.C. !!


2 posted on 09/14/2017 10:00:21 AM PDT by RightWingNut
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"we're essentially sending out a beacon that says "ATTACK HERE."

Yup. That's exactly what we're doing.

3 posted on 09/14/2017 10:01:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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They won’t have to look far....the aliens are in cities and towns across America....

the ones from Mexico and Central America.


4 posted on 09/14/2017 10:02:01 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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I agree with Hawking. And while you cannot ascribe human motivations to aliens,, why take a chance?


5 posted on 09/14/2017 10:02:25 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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How long until they get amnesty?


6 posted on 09/14/2017 10:02:52 AM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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“Party at Dave’s. Free beer!”

... may not attract intelligent life but at least anyone that shows won’t be boring.


7 posted on 09/14/2017 10:03:43 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Carefull, it might be looking for V-GER.


8 posted on 09/14/2017 10:05:00 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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Just because they can, doesn’t mean they should. The aliens they’ll attract likely won’t be cute little fuzzy creatures who wouldn’t harm a fly.


9 posted on 09/14/2017 10:08:21 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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We’re sending a screaming chorus of EM signals into space every minute of every day and have been for longer than any of us have been alive. Everything from top 40 radio to I Love Lucy to military communications to amateur radio to over the horizon radar.

Anybody out there within a hundred-plus light years that monitors the EM bands that we use knows we’re here.


10 posted on 09/14/2017 10:10:23 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Try the border.


11 posted on 09/14/2017 10:11:29 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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And these are the guys that make fun of God?


12 posted on 09/14/2017 10:12:35 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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BWAHAHAHA!!!!!


13 posted on 09/14/2017 10:12:51 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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"But I am not really willing to accept your premise, because it may well be that the means of communications they have are of a kind that we do not know how to receive, and that they would not have the means of communicating with sufficiently powerful radio or optical signals. That is something which, technologically, is too difficult for them but they would have some other means we would not recognize." -- Thomas J. Gold, 'Communication with Extraterrestial Intelligence' (Sagan, ed)

14 posted on 09/14/2017 10:13:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Oh come on - if there were aliens, they would be on Facebook.


15 posted on 09/14/2017 10:14:35 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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ARE THEY CRAZY?!!!

DID THEY NOT SEE THE MOVIE “BATTLESHIP”?!!!

;-)


16 posted on 09/14/2017 10:16:37 AM PDT by robroys woman
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why?


17 posted on 09/14/2017 10:16:44 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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"ATTACK HERE."

The bad news is that since the invention of radio, waves have been going out. Granted, fairly weak waves, but still.

However, when Arecibo was originally brought online, they did a ~10 minute broadcast to a system about 20K LY away, iirc.

The Arecibo managers figured ten minutes was about all the excitement the people there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and watching a metal antenna broadcast radio waves, could stand without getting bored.

18 posted on 09/14/2017 10:16:49 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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We must all try to have compassion for these aliens, sent here by their home civilizations light years away. They would be here thru no fault of their own...


19 posted on 09/14/2017 10:17:21 AM PDT by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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I’ve seen this movie.
It does not end well......................


20 posted on 09/14/2017 10:19:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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