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2006-04-13 Science & Technology

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-04-13 09:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 when will this madness end - no ET is gonna be thick enough to broadcast themselves to the universe - only we humans are that daft. I've watched to many movies about this sorta thing to know its a bad bad idea.

Posted by ShepUK 2006-04-13 09:28|| 2006-04-13 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Boys, we are set for life...

Posted by Brotherhood of Extraterrestrial Light Signal Hunters of America: Local 1 2006-04-13 10:53|| 2006-04-13 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Sending laser signals across the cosmos would be a very logical way for ET to reach out...

Actually, it is the stupidest freaken way ET can reach out. It takes Thousands to Billions of years for light to travel from stars to galaxies. If ET is advanced, the radio traffic would be a lot easier to pickup and find them .... thousands plus years later. If ET is more advanced than we are, they use a communications method that we have no hope of finding or decoding because we simply don't know how.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-13 11:01|| 2006-04-13 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 SPoD's putting up a new antenna.

Posted by 6 2006-04-13 11:48|| 2006-04-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 As much as I would like to see somebody stumble across a real ET signal the whole idea that aliens are beaming us messages is ludicrous. If I Love Lucy didn't turn 'em off C-SPAN certainly will. Not to mention NPR

Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-04-13 18:53|| 2006-04-13 18:53|| Front Page Top

#6 They could easily be messaging one another or have a general purpose communications or navigation beacon.
Which would be of some interest to find.
Light and radio waves travel at about the same speed.

Posted by jim#6 2006-04-13 19:17|| 2006-04-13 19:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Darth beat me to it, stupidest way to message there is, completely worthless past a light year or so, even lasers attenuate.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-04-13 22:03|| 2006-04-13 22:03|| Front Page Top

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