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Is Anybody Out There? Detection Devices are in the Works for Rooting Out Extraterrestrial Life
ScienceNews ^ | 1/21/2006 | Christen Brownlee

Posted on 01/24/2006 11:20:35 AM PST by furball4paws

For all you science and space buffs, engineers are making a whole new generation of gizmos designed to find extraterrestrial life. I look forward to success in my lifetime.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; et; extraterrestriallife; seti
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To: MensRightsActivist

If those things had not happened, so that life would not have evolved to its present state, the atmosphere would not have so much oxygen. The oxygen is due to our close cousins--the plant kingdom, who are as highly evolved as we are. It would be high in methane and CO2, although it might have water vapor.


61 posted on 01/24/2006 3:29:20 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: furball4paws
Considering cosmic distances, I don't think you need worry about them sticking a straw in your ear.

One would hope. I can't say I would want to bet the future of humanity on that hope.

62 posted on 01/24/2006 3:38:02 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: PatrickHenry

Thanks for the ping!


63 posted on 01/24/2006 9:17:17 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: PatrickHenry; furball4paws
RA says his SETI work was all privately funded.

Indeed it is. :-)

64 posted on 01/25/2006 6:17:52 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: fishtank

Too many variables to validate "Fermi's Paradox.

Distance is one of the bigs. If a race is radiating into space and they are further away from us in light years than the number of years they have been radiating, we will never see them.


65 posted on 01/25/2006 6:19:36 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: MensRightsActivist
they may interested in us in terms of colonization and harvesting of available resources.

The trip would take more energy that they would harvest.

66 posted on 01/25/2006 6:20:34 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: sandbar
I just don't think we need to waste money trying to contact them.

Why? To find out we are not the only tool building race in the universe would be most profound!

67 posted on 01/25/2006 6:21:45 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: GOPJ; Emmet Fitzhume
We can't communicate with the animals and plants we evolved with - why would we be able to communicate with beings we hadn't evolved with?

SETI is not looking to communicate. All we are doing is looking for that narrowband carrier that indicates a non-natural origin.

68 posted on 01/25/2006 6:23:21 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

>>>I just don't think we need to waste money trying to contact them.
Why? To find out we are not the only tool building race in the universe would be most profound!>>>

Yes it would, but what is the most you are willing to spend on profoundness?


69 posted on 01/25/2006 7:20:50 AM PST by sandbar (when)
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To: sandbar; Physicist
Yes it would, but what is the most you are willing to spend on profoundness?

As much as I can get. :-)

70 posted on 01/25/2006 7:23:01 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Check this out: Evidence for the Big Bang.
71 posted on 01/25/2006 1:47:51 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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