Posted on 01/27/2005 8:03:58 PM PST by KevinDavis
Will we ever find a primer for decoding messages from extraterrestrials? Last month, anthropologists who gathered for a major conference in Atlanta, Georgia heard some news that will be sobering for SETI enthusiasts: it may be much more difficult to understand extraterrestrials than many scientists have thought before.
Among the sessions held during Decembers annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was one called "Anthropology, Archaeology, and Interstellar Communication: Science and the Knowledge of Distant Worlds." The session included papers by scholars from such diverse fields as astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and psychology. Is there a Cosmic Rosetta Stone, they asked, drawing parallels to Earths own Rosetta Stone, which provided the key to decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics? Will we ever find a comparable primer for decrypting any messages we might receive some day from extraterrestrials?
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
LOL! Me neither -- too flippant.
Just seeing a narrowband signal is enough to suggest a non-natural emanation.
Sounds a whole lot like something or someone is in control of what we are allowed to see and hear.
Some place it is written that not all were given eyes to see and ears to hear. No I have not been "PINGED"!
Actually no. TV just doesn't get out there very far. .3 light years is about the max estimated distance. Thusly, episodes of "I Love Lucy" or "The Three Stooges" are not going to the stars.
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No I have not been "PINGED"!
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I've said this before on FR: the most relevant question ever asked in the field of eye health is "how do ammonia molecules behave when you wiggle them with microwaves?"
Others may have different opinions about that, of course.
Indeed. Lead to the invention of the laser. :-)
>>> R=8x10-6(PeA/T)1/2(t/B)1/4 light years.
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I preferred the Beep, Beep, Beep posts :))
LOL!
How are you R.A.?
"Will we ever find a comparable primer for decrypting any messages we might receive some day from extraterrestrials?"
I do not have the "decoder" and do not receive messages is meaning of "PINGED".
I do not discount "extraterrestrials", for all we know and can physically see they could be anywhere or everywhere. Like everything there is a negative and a positive.
Or never take us seriously!
But considering the violence in the Three Stooges movies they might just fear us enough to leave us alone.
Thusly, episodes of "I Love Lucy" or "The Three Stooges" are not going to the stars.
Dirty jokes at that. :-)
Another contact sort story I liked was how do you ensure the other race cannot follow you home? They ended up exchanging spacecraft. :-)
Doing ok! I have an eye exam in an hour, so I cannot stay on FR much longer this morning. Sigh!
Thanks. :-)
Means they are here. :-)
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