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Posted on 05/23/2012 4:26:04 AM PDT by iowamark
I was going to ping you that “from occupied ga” must have had someone piss in his corn flakes this morning. Then I got two separate freepmails saying that the guy walks around with a chip on his shoulder the size of Mt Everest. And worse.
Apparently a troll who takes pride in insult over cordial debate.
I suggest you start a campaign to warm Americans about the massive SETI tax grab, which is imploding the U.S. economy! I bet it’s into the hundreds of billions! Trillions!
I thought they already sent back a message...."SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY!"
The Drake equation is a joke. It postulates that a world has a 1/100 chance to survive evolution and become self-aware.
The chances of a single Polypeptide forming into an amino acid is 1 in 10^300 trillion trillion, and there are hundreds of thousands of such combinations required for the simplest life form. That makes the value plugged into the Drake equation something like 10^-300 Trillion Trillion Trillion+ , thousands of orders of magnitude off. Like other Freepers said, she would make more impact searching for common sense.
You sure whine and cry when you don’t have any logical counter to someone you disagree with
I suggest you move out of your mother's basement sell your comic book collection and get a job and even pay taxes, Then maybe you'd understand why people who actually pay taxes don't like any waste on nonsense like SETI
Even though SETI primarily funded by private sources, it seems your obsessed with it.
Go get um Mr. occupied Georgia!
I’m partial to the selections from Bach, as well.....
“Ahhh, Bach.”
Allen Telescope Array is the forerunner of other larger radio astronomy arrays planned for later in the decade. As telescope and SETI technology have advanced, it is now possible to detect intelligence not only by directed message from one interstellar location to another but by the same kind of 'noise' we accidentally broadcast to the cosmos via radio, television and radar signals. SETI truly is a long-term project.
Read it carefully Smartmouth. You are wrong on your key point. The rest of your tripe is just opinion.
JSB or JCB? I prefer the father...
Since you initiated the pleasantries, you should not object if I label you a dimwit who lacks (among many other things) reading comprehension skills. I direct you to post #10 in which the distance that the SETI crew can detect "civilization noise" is FAR less than the distance to any possible sources. NOT MY STATEMENT, HIS statement. It was that statement that caused me to completely dismiss SETI as a boondoggle at best and more likely a con akin to the weight loss pills advertized on late night TV.
To be honest (something that you haven't been so far), that was in 1994 (or maybe '95) so their detection levels have probably improved somewhat, but signal strength drops as the SQUARE of the distance, so a signal of the same initial power at 100 ly is 10,000 time weaker than than a signal at a source at 1 ly. I doubt that their ability to detect signal from noise is 10,000 times better that it was 18 years ago.
forerunner of other larger radio astronomy arrays planned for later in the decade
Nowhere do I see how these are to be funded. I doubt it will be private funds.
JS of course.
He summarized all that came before...and anticipated everything that came after.
So you don’t even know the year in which you heard something, nor who said it, but you can remember the exact words. How convenient for you.
What you allegedly heard EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO contradicts the present writings of the SETI organization. And you still claim to be correct and me “dishonest” in the face of that?
You are not worth the time to debate.
whatever
SETI: A science without a subject.
True indeed. However, to slightly paraphrase Stuart Chase, "For the true believer, no proof is necessary and no disproof is possible."
WOW!
That was a really snappy comeback Mr. Wizard.
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Thanks iowamark.
An “extra, extra” ping to the APoD list members.
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