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SETI politics
The Space Review ^
| 09/06/05
| Gregory Anderson
Posted on 09/06/2005 6:31:20 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:32:02 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
I thought you were posting about the Egyptian pharaoh. Just kidding...SETI has been around for quite a while as I recall. Fascinating stuff.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:33:05 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor; All
It is quite fasciniting... I think we will have contact within a hundred years...
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:36:41 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
I hear the Allen Array has its first few dishes all set up now.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:40:52 PM PDT
by
SteveMcKing
("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
To: KevinDavis
SETI should check Washington first.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:41:45 PM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Murder and weather are our only news)
To: KevinDavis
Even if there are other intelligent beings and societies in the universe, it's quite likely that there will not be any 'contact' for another few million years or more.....(not that humans are likely to be around so long)..... in the context of the billions of years of the existence of the universe, it seems extremely anthropocentric to imagine that there will be 'contact' just in the very brief time period in which we have started to seek it. Even our centuries are very miniscule time periods in relation to the universe. Also, if there were any intelligent beings out there, chances are they would be so far away that there never will be any 'contact'....
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:42:31 PM PDT
by
Enchante
To: KevinDavis
I hope you're right. I believe that will be a real eye-opener for mankind. I'm convinced there are lots of civilizations out there. I hope they're smarter than we are. I expect they are.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:43:17 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
If they aren't, they probably wouldn't survive to make contact.
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:49:41 PM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
To: TN4Liberty
Good point. But I still recall the Titanic sending out an SOS before it sank. {;o)
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posted on
09/06/2005 6:54:15 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: KevinDavis
It is indeed fascinating and I hope we'll have contact sooner than a hundred years.
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:01:28 PM PDT
by
EsmeraldaA
(How are you doing)
To: KevinDavis
Are they still doing that screensaver analysis? I ran it on my home network for months on end years ago when I first got broadband and everyone thought I'd gone crazy. Even had one spike that turned out to be inconsequential.
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:04:03 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Quix
To: DaveLoneRanger
My thoughts exactly. SETI "scientists" wait for a series of signals from outer space as an indication of intelligent life, and then look at the incredible complexity of the human genome and tell us that it is the product of millions of years of random chance mutations.
Can you spell double standards?
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posted on
09/06/2005 7:55:59 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(The radical secularization of America is happening)
To: KevinDavis
There are no ETs....shut the program down.
To: KevinDavis
Sounds like religion to me--not science.
To: WorkingClassFilth
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posted on
09/06/2005 8:09:06 PM PDT
by
Quix
(GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
To: BurbankKarl
AHHHHH . . . and your omnicience told you this?
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posted on
09/06/2005 8:10:43 PM PDT
by
Quix
(GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
To: Quix
I have been crunching work units for years!
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