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Space signal studied for alien contact
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| September 2, 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 09/04/2004 12:31:06 PM PDT by nikos1121
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Has anyone heard any updates on this story?
Nick
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:31:07 PM PDT
by
nikos1121
To: nikos1121
Who saw the movie CONTACT?
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:34:11 PM PDT
by
sirchtruth
(Do you just think I fell off a turnip truck?)
To: sirchtruth
Who saw the movie CONTACT? More importantly, who saw the movie "Independence Day"?
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:36:15 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
To: nikos1121
Has anyone heard any updates on this story? Yes; the head nerd at SETI@Home has basically debunked the initial report; he said the reporter apparently blew things out of proportion.
there's already a couple of threads on this topic....
To: nikos1121
Or Mars Attacks?
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:36:59 PM PDT
by
Thrusher
(The timing of this post is suspicious.)
To: sirchtruth
Yes, sounds like CONTACT. Havn't heard anything after the first postings in the news.
Nick
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:37:26 PM PDT
by
nikos1121
To: sirchtruth
Who saw the movie CONTACT?"It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook"
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:37:34 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: nikos1121
or amazon woman on the moon
To: nikos1121
Uh oh. If these are the only aliens broadcasting their presence to the galaxy at large they can't be very smart ones. Something's liable to go eat them soon. =)
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:38:08 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: nikos1121
Has anybody calculated how far away a civilization as noisy as we are would have to be to not be detectable? It seems to me that if there is intelligent life out there, they are very quiet.
To: longshadow
Then that takes care of that...
Great timing if it were true... would have given George another bounce! :-)
Nick
To: nikos1121
Updates? Yes, this was no more than an overzealous journalist going way beyond reality.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:38:44 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: Born to Conserve
if there is intelligent life out there, they are very quiet. That would be smart.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:39:52 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: nikos1121
It is the mother ship calling Michael Moore home.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:40:35 PM PDT
by
FFIGHTER
To: nikos1121
Has anyone heard any updates on this story? No updates, which is not unusual. After the ALH-8000 fiasco, everyone's been a little skittish about jumping up and down and proclaiming these incidents as evidence of extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial intelligence.
In addition, even if this is extraterrestrial intelligence at work, a working dialogue is going to be an exercise in patience, consider that the distance and speed of radio signals will require over a century for us just to exchange greetings.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:41:20 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
To: nikos1121
It's a radio signal from K-Pax(which would be k-pax). The message describes a visit from a great earth warrior during the year 1968 on the 359th lunar day. He visited a place on the planet called Cambodia.
They are awaiting his return to issue him a ceremonial purple pulmonary device.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:41:20 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
To: Born to Conserve
Has anybody calculated how far away a civilization as noisy as we are would have to be to not be detectable?That depends. If they'd only been haphazardly broadcasting electromagnetic waves in large quantities for about 20-30 years like we have (and those not actually targetted away from the planet) then they would be undetectable if they're further than 15 or so light years away....
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:42:01 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: AntiGuv
If these are the only aliens broadcasting their presence to the galaxy at large they can't be very smart ones. Something's liable to go eat them soon. =) Either that, or they are the cosmos' version of the deep sea fish that use bio-luminescence to draw in their prey.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:43:27 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
To: nikos1121
Give us all of Earth's Ammonia....
....or the BITC# IS TOAST!
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:45:23 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(..with a six in one hand...and half a dozen in the other!)
To: nikos1121
They have diagnosed the signal. It is saying "four more years".
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