Astronomers find 'home from home' - 90 light years away!

spaceref.com ^ | 3 Jul 03 | staff

[conservababeJen]

I have a great idea.......

Why don't you ignore him if you don't like what he has to say? Seriously? Many of us here enjoy his posts and are equally as annoyed as you are with YOURS. Difference is...we don't have happy-abuse-clickfest-parties....(but we easily could). Truth is... while you might claim that ALS is why the threads get pulled, you fail to see that it's your own whining that causes it. Why would you whine? Especially for ALS's posting on that thread. He broke NO rules (unlike you bringing that bag into this thread). Try to focus on this one thing....... There are MANY here who don't share YOUR views. We are just as entitled to OUR say. Here's the difference.... When YOU and your side break the rules, WE get over it and handle it like DEBATE forums do. Whe WE break the rules, YOU guys WHINE and CRY and turn into frothing-mommyseeking-hypocrites.

These threads will ALWAYS be heated. The topic is heated. It's the nature of the beast. Get over it or ignore it.

I don't even see anything wrong with heated discourse.
I have no need to private message you.

[Aric2000]

I have been ignoring him Jen, I have tried to be reasonable with you.

I asked you a serious question, and you gave me a silly response.

Did that look like someone that is debating, or is that someone who AGAIN, is trying to start a flamewar?

He ignores questions that are posed to him, and arguments that he does not like and then attacks, or questions the poster in a ridiculous manner.

This is NOT debate NOR discussion, this is called trolling to start a flamewar.

If he ACTUALLY wanted to discuss and debate, we would NOT get heated, but he does not, and turns up the heat to get us into his little flamewar mode that he seems to enjoy so much.

Yes, love is indeed blind, that's too bad, we could have had a very good DISCUSSION.

[ALS]

If you were ignoring me, then post right here where in this thread I said anything to you or about you before you laid out your insulting screed against me.


Justify your behavior.

[Aric2000]

Wouldn't it be though, now it is just a matter of getting around that whole relativity thing without being turned into pure energy ourselves.

THere HAS to be a way around it, we just have to get some of our greatest minds on it.

The goal is to BREAK the speed of light, WITHOUT getting fried.

[conservababeJen]

'Nite all

Happy July 4th. Eat, drink and be merry

[conservababeJen]

*sigh*, I almost escaped....

I asked you a serious question, and you gave me a silly response

Where?

[js1138]

jennyp is a loon when it comes to defending darwood.

I would like to hear from conservababe about whether it is appropriate to call jennyp a loon.

me saying "jerry lewis" is hardly something to run home to momma about. Is that the best you clowns can do?

I would like to hear from conservababe about whether it is appropriate to call your opponents clowns. And whether a mocking answer is appropriate to a fact-based question.

Fact is, I was attacked in #38. I had not been in here. It was an unsolicited attack.

True. But whattajoke had not discussed the change of tone at that time. I had not discussed any part of today's happenings with him.

Another fact... Aric is the one that assailed me. I had not said a word to the pup.

Not on #38 and not before you did the Jerry Lewis thing.

get your facts straight for once

My facts are straight.

I thought you said you guys had all discussed this privately? Did you leave out the pup again?

No, but I think we are all trying. I do believe that using the terms pup, loon and clown is inappropriate.

[Aric2000]

Go to bed Jen, happy 4th of July....

[js1138]

I don't even see anything wrong with heated discourse. I have no need to private message you.

I don't either. That's why it is so strange to have threads pulled. I assure you that I have never complained to admins over heated words or name calling.

[zeebee]

The interesting thing is, if there is intelligent life there, they would only now be just starting to receive our first radio broadcast transmissions from 90 years ago (when radio first began).

Our planet would have seemed dead to them until today.

Of course it is impossible to think about travelling there, but radio transmissions travel at the speed of light so anything we pick up from each other occurred 90 years ago.

They will not be able to see our first television broadcasts (from 1927) until 2017.

[my right]

"90 LY at warp 8 is only 32 days travel time each way. "

If we went at warp 32, would we meet ourselfs comming back??

[conservababeJen]

Happy July 4th. Eat, drink and be merry

oops

I left out ...."and Free".

GOD bless America

[ALS]

Fact is, I was attacked in #38. I had not been in here. It was an unsolicited attack.


True. But whattajoke had not discussed the change of tone at that time. I had not discussed any part of today's happenings with him.

Another fact... Aric is the one that assailed me. I had not said a word to the pup.


Not on #38 and not before you did the Jerry Lewis thing.

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so where in there is sparky's justification for claiming I started it with him?

hmmmmmmmmmmm?

[js1138]

Happy 4th to all. Time for a cooling off.

[ALS]

take the pup with you

[Aric2000]

THe other thing is, that if there is a civilization that is say, 500 years ahead of us in technology, and they are less then 500 light years away, we could start recieving their transmissions ANY time now.

So it may not be a matter of transmitting, it could just be a matter of listening in the right direction, on the right frequency and with the right gain.

I believe that this is what Radioastronomer is working right now, I think that listening is the important part, because we are transmitting like a fricking radio lightbulb!! LOL

[Aric2000]

Good night JS, have a GREAT 4th of July!!

[js1138]

so where in there is sparky's justification for claiming I started it with him?

I think that all of us could use a bit of the old cheek turning. In the scheme of life it really isn't important who starts name calling, but who has the good sense to quit first. Let's be freepers first on the fourth.

[ALS]

"I think that all of us could use a bit of the old cheek turning."

Right after the spin, lies and tossed insults. How convenient Mr. Altruistic

Put your pup on a leash

[conservababeJen]

I don't find ALS calling jennyp a loon any more or less provocative than what whattajoke did/said. I'm sure he could have found a more "politically correct" adjective, but this is not worth burning anyone at the stake. Are we not all grown-ups here? Doesn't RUSH, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter...etc say just as provocative things?