Mysterious radio bursts from space may soon have an explanation (wow, what could they be?)

MSN ^ | 12 hours ago | Seth Shostak

[Jack Black]

Science fiction is full of stores of races that harness stars to do things for them.

If we can imagine it, perhaps someone can do it.

[RoosterRedux]

Thx. I was thinking David Morse (in Contact)...couldn’t remember the role that James Woods played.

[buckalfa]

Maybe the Zarthans are, beaming back to us all he noise pollution we have been broadcasting for a century.

[exDemMom]

The book was so bad that I was never tempted to watch the movie. I recall that Sagan kept inserting the phrase, “She wished she’d had a baby,” which had absolutely nothing to do with the plot. Was liberal Sagan trying to relate to women by randomly inserting this statement? We’ll never know. In any case, I can’t imagine the movie would have been very good, unless the screenwriters could have worked magic. In which case, it would not have followed the book.

[Cvengr]

It's a TRAP!

[Chode]

you rang???

[BeauBo]

"What if it's simply things flying in front of the radio telescope?"

[bert]

I say that until we learn to communicate with colonies of intelligent honeybees, we need not worry about space aliens

[hal ogen]

Finally, Ming the Merciless has broken through .

[Does so]

Prove a negative?

[Does so]

Another shows: Carol Gene Cornwall, Mar 13, 1947, Willoughby, Ohio, U.S.

No matter. I raced against her when she was (Mrs) Lyn Carosso. I emailed her a couple of years ago from her website, but heard nothing back. Oh well.

I do have a photo of my car and I that she autographed, saying, "At least it was Ford". (!)

[momincombatboots]

What proof do you reqirw? If provided, would you accept it?

[newfreep]

My top level sources at NASA have confirmed receiving communications from an Alien Life Form claiming to be from the planet Melmac.

This Alien Life Form speaks perfect English but can be a bit rude. He has transmitted his image during a recent radio communication session...

[I want the USA back]

It’s reasonable to think that stars emit energy in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, just as they emit light.

[xp38]

[BobL]

“Maybe it was declination”

I don’t think you’re ‘right...’.

[mdmathis6]

Yeah the Dems keep trying to talk to us about their tax bonus situation...they need to ‘get what’s coming to them’!(Trump living in their heads causing cranial explosions daily!)

[Buckeye McFrog]

Marvin the Martian has barricaded himself in the studio and is going to play “Take This Job and Shove It” over and over again until they come and break down the door.

[mdmathis6]

Actually the movie was seen as better than the book because Sagan’s zipper head tendencies were muzzled in the movie with a good streamlined and easy to follow narrative; religion and faith were actually treated quite fairly and reasonably in the movie(1996). No way, 23 years later would Christian religious faith be treated that way again!

[faucetman]

Very good movie. James Woods had a small part. Matthew McConaughey was great as usual.