Posted on 04/03/2006 5:10:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The year 2010 will mark the 50th anniversary of humanity's strangest scientific quest: the use of giant radiotelescope dishes to listen for radio messages from alien beings in space. So far, the search has been a complete bust. The radioastronomers keep listening, but the stars aren't talking to us -- not yet, anyway.
Oddly, the failure of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has been largely ignored by the general public, journalists and Hollywood filmmakers. They continue to be enchanted by (and, in Hollywood's case, to commercially exploit) the hope that intelligent life is sprinkled across the galaxy like dandelions across a spring meadow, that those faraway intelligences wish to communicate with us by radio and that said communication would mutually benefit both parties. For example (we are told), aliens could transmit to us cures for cancer and warfare, while we could enlighten them on the mating and sexual rituals of hominids on the third planet of the star called Sol.
Why does the public remain fascinated with a project, SETI, that has so far yielded only disappointment? No doubt it's fun to think that the cosmos is more than "drops of mud," as Anatole France sneered. In an unhappy world, it's reassuring to think that no matter how miserable we are Down Here, there's all kinds of wondrous stuff going on Up There, i.e. that the center of our Milky Way galaxy is a celestial Broadway teeming with brilliant societies and buzzing with starships. Toward that stellar metropolis 30,000 light years overhead, we suffering terrestrials gaze wistfully, rather like the ragged working girls of romantic fiction who gaze longingly at the lights of Manhattan.
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Algore is proof of non-human humanoids.
Other than your saying it. What proof do you have there is any other intelligent life out there?
What proof do you have there isn't???
"use of giant radiotelescope dishes to listen for radio messages from alien beings in space. So far, the search has been a complete bust."
Instead of listening for messages, why not send messages?
Visionless idiot.
We have only been searching a *tiny* portion of time.
The search has only just begun. But I guess that just not fast enough for fools. Somethings take a great deal of time from a human perspective.
And who is to say that alien signals havent been streaming through our very bodies all along as thousands of radio signals do every second?
All the time as we searched for "smoke signals" while they were using "radio".
And if we are truly alone. then THAT is a valid answer to this quest too. Either way it is our nature to find out.
That's a cop out. No one can prove the negative, however the positive is not proven then it is not proven. As far as I know we're it, and you need to face that fact.
I agree.. We should send the messages..
No it isn't....
We do. It is called television.
Oh, yes it is
I'm still hoping they look like "six".
How long did it take to prove the Earth was not flat and this planet was not the center of the universe...
I gotta disagree. Back when I was married I used to see flying saucers all the time.
Only people who believe that we are alone are ignorant.. My gut instinct is that we are not alone.
Have you been receiving signals again?
What's the frequency, Kevin?
7 of nine...
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