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If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?
Universe Today ^ | 2/13/18 | Matt Williams

Posted on 02/13/2018 1:12:06 AM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 02/13/2018 1:12:06 AM PST by LibWhacker
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yea let’s talk..but they are not heavenly beings


2 posted on 02/13/2018 1:17:36 AM PST by aces
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Nope, I would not assume that aliens of any kind are benign. Build a wall, both a physical border barrier and an electronic separation, that will keep all aliens out until we can be sure that their presence will help us.


3 posted on 02/13/2018 1:30:34 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: LibWhacker

Yes. Especially if they just came into a big inheritance and need your help cashing the intergalactic check.


4 posted on 02/13/2018 1:31:57 AM PST by Trillian
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If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?

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Read it.

I've seen at least one alien message.

It reads, "we've come for your vegetables and beer".

5 posted on 02/13/2018 1:38:28 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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lol


6 posted on 02/13/2018 1:38:52 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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To: a little elbow grease

You’re using the wrong decoder ring setting. It says “Drink your Ovaltine”.


7 posted on 02/13/2018 1:47:04 AM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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lol.......


8 posted on 02/13/2018 1:49:38 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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To: LibWhacker

If it reads “I lost 100 quarks using one weird blart,” I’d pass on it.


9 posted on 02/13/2018 1:50:51 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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They are looking in the wrong direction. They look outward and upward to the skies for signs of ETI.

The message is inside our DNA!


10 posted on 02/13/2018 1:53:57 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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Pablo sent me an email offering to mow my lawn for beer. I deleted it. I don’t reply to aliens.


11 posted on 02/13/2018 2:15:33 AM PST by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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“If We Receive a Message From Aliens”

Just set it to auto-reply: “Hello, we’re unable to take your call right now but please leave a message to include your name, date/time of your call and a number where you can be reached. Thank you so much and have a delightful day.”


12 posted on 02/13/2018 2:22:50 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Alien messages pretty much have to be spam on a galactic scale, broadcasting willy-nilly. Fortunately we have James Vetch, a Grand Master of Spam jujitsu.

James Veitch how to handle spam

13 posted on 02/13/2018 2:36:38 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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Is this a serious study? They want to try to hide our planet from ET’s by not responding to electronic signals?

We have saturated our little corner of the universe with electronic emissions covering the whole known spectrum. Emissions which extend out as far as we can monitor. Millions of miles as evidenced by communications with our space probes.

Our planet must stand out, like a neon sign on a dark night, to any ET interested in electronic emissions. And if they can understand the majority of message so transmitted, they will certainly stay the hell away from this nut house!

Any ET that has the advanced intelligence that we attribute to them would most certainly have developed more advanced method of communication.

Just my humble, uneducated opinion.


14 posted on 02/13/2018 2:49:38 AM PST by topsail
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We could store it on Hillary’s private server ;-)


15 posted on 02/13/2018 2:53:35 AM PST by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: LibWhacker

Stray television signals won’t do anything. The amount of energy required to get a signal across interstellar distances is cosmic in scale.


16 posted on 02/13/2018 2:57:10 AM PST by fso301
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Our planet must stand out, like a neon sign on a dark night, to any ET interested in electronic emissions. And if they can understand the majority of message so transmitted, they will certainly stay the hell away from this nut house!

Not really. Enormous energy is required to get a signal across interstellar distances. The type signals SETI receives requires the energy generated by bursts from stars

17 posted on 02/13/2018 3:10:19 AM PST by fso301
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To: LibWhacker
Just go ahead and read it already. I love Ovaltine…
18 posted on 02/13/2018 3:12:38 AM PST by cartan
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Interesting to see so many snarky posts.

Whistling in the dark.


19 posted on 02/13/2018 3:23:35 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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“If it reads “I lost 100 quarks using one weird blart,” I’d pass on it.”

Hilarious!


20 posted on 02/13/2018 3:24:36 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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