Posted on 06/19/2019 9:08:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
While the truth might be out there, technological aliens don't seem to be — at least not yet. New results from the most comprehensive Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program ever undertaken — which surveyed 1,327 nearby stars for signals from intelligent beings — have turned up empty.
"There's certainly nothing out there glaringly obvious," ... lead author of a paper about the results, which were published in The Astrophysical Journal, told Live Science. "There's no amazingly advanced civilizations trying to contact us with incredibly powerful transmitters."
While the team didn't find anything this time around, Price said that there could be many explanations for the lack of alien signals. Perhaps the search was conducted at the wrong frequencies, or those signals were hidden by radio interference from Earth. Any such undertaking is limited by the methods and discoveries that humans happen to have made in the course of our own history
The search was conducted as part of the Breakthrough Listen initiative, a 10-year, $100-million endeavor funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner that aims to scan the skies for technosignatures: transmissions or other evidence created by technological creatures on other worlds. The initiative, which kicked off in 2015, relies on two of the world's most powerful telescopes — the 328-foot-diameter (100 meters) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and the 210-foot-diameter (64 m) Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia — to try to eavesdrop on alien communications.
In their latest data release, researchers analyzed 1 petabyte (or 1 million gigabytes) of data in both radio and optical wavelengths, looking at more than a thousand stars within 160 light-years of Earth. Several thousand interesting signals appeared during the search, though all turned out to originate from mundane sources, like human-made satellites.
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We have no idea how to even think or speak of God's world or worlds beyond our own.
"It just IS" is a statement of unbelievable arrogance (apologies).
If a man blind from birth cannot comprehend what it is to see, how can we comprehend anything beyond that perceived by our senses and our tiny, self-consumed minds?
Whatever eternity (i.e. God's world) is...is so incredibly beyond our capacity to imagine that all we can do is express humility at the prospects of touching just a fleeting corner of it.
We haven’t the slightest hint of verifiable evidence that anybody else even exists at all. To say, then, that we can’t be (or are unlikely to be) “first” is unsupportable.
Eternity? Oh, pish-tosh. I experienced eternity
before I was born, and there was nothing to it.
"And then I was born..."
... and when I die, I want my epitaph
to read, “What was that all about?”
OK, you post something about God being bored and drinking coffee deciding, on a whim, to create creation sitting on His “back porch”, and you tell me I’m arrogant?
I’m not sure you understood what I was trying to say, but you summarized it well, in that we can’t understand God’s “world”. He tells us that, and I believe it.
We can, however, trust what He tells us in his Word, and that is that he is outside time, and it does not define or constrain his actions. He created it, and can deal with it as it suits Him.
You don’t seem to have the ability to recognize satire or accept “apologies” (as given in my post) when liberties are taken to clarify a statement.
False. Navy just admitted they exist. President said he is not sure. And they are communicating.
No, the Navy did NOT “admit” that space aliens from other planets exist. The Navy sort of came out of the closet that pilots and aircrew sometimes see things that they can’t identify or explain.
For ground based comm they would probably be using something like a fiber network; for planet-to-craft, something like Ursula K. Le Guin's ansible.
Okay. Fine. Things are flying around at impossible speeds and maneuvers, and we all blame radar anomalies. Probably contrails....
We have absolutely no idea what our position is in the universe. We don’t even know where the “edge” lies. There could be life on the opposite end of our galaxy that is at the same rate of technology as our own; we won’t know for 100000 light years if they can even get a signal across and not degrade rendering it useless.
I doubt we are alone in the cosmos, the odds are not so high that this has not happened twice. They probably just look different, think different and survive differently if they have not destroyed themselves already which on this planet is looking increasingly our fate.
You must be from the future. How else could a person be so certain of something so distant in time and space?
Greetings Exalted One! We have cookies!
Excellent my fine minion!
I like oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip.
If they’re peanut butter it means your head!
Ancient technology? Yeah, so's the wheel. If it ain't broke... :^)
Hmmmm.... OK. Your apology accepted - please accept mine. I think I’m on a little different “satirical frequency” than you are. I’ll make a note of that and twist the tuning knob a little to eliminate static for future exchanges. God Bless.
God bless you also and have a great weekend.
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