[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Some researchers at FermiLab have way too much time on their hands.

[BenLurkin]

Believing in ETs is silly.

Believing that ETs (if they did exist) would necessarily be benign is even sillier.

[GregoTX]

Of all the real problems we need to address, you dont have to look long before finding someone that will worry about the stupidest thing .... some goofy Euro-weenie actually said "... scientists searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations are putting Earth's security at risk, by distributing the jumble of signals they receive to computers all over the world."

Sometimes I am left speechless. I bet that guy is a college professor.

[theDentist]

Someone needs to slip a little Librium into his coffee... and danish.... and anything else he consumes....

[mrsmith]

To: Supervisor sector 5
FROM: Sector 5b planetary services technician

The attached shows how much trouble the idiocy and arrogance of earthling scientists causes us.
As you know Seti signals are how we aliens maintain the internet. Without those "critical updates" and upgrades the system will cease to function.

A member of any species but these backwards humans would see Seti signals were on their computers long before the internet came along- and the logical conclusion to be drawn.

[KarlInOhio]

Looks like Dr. Carrigan has been drinking Nyquil and watching reruns of Invasion.

Dr. Carrigan, if you analyze the data you won't have problems. If you try to run the data, bad things may happen. A lot of computer viruses rely on getting the computer to try to run the data though overflowing a buffer. Only sloppy programmers don't carefully limit the amount of data they use so it doesn't overwrite things it shouldn't.

[marblehead17]

ping

[Lloyd227]

I wonder...... don't know exactly how these "signals" are formatted or what protocol the data is shipped in, but... is it remotely possible for a human satelite to be used intentionally to feed such a malicious signal into their system?

Ok.... nevermind.... :-) sorry!

[Junior]

Well, we do know from ID4 that aliens are all Windows compatible.

[GOPJ]

"He believes scientists searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations are putting Earth's security at risk, by distributing the jumble of signals they receive to computers all over the world."

Don't thrash about in the ocean until you're ready for the shark.

The SETI people could show their mettle by communicating with the other life forms here - the ones we evolved with - the easy ones. When they do that, they can call the shark...

[GOPJ]

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