And we’ve been sending them signals!
Cool: . . . I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent
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September 30th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
While the square cube law fades most broadcasting into the background hiss within a few hundred astronomical units, narrow bandwidth directed beams are another matter. We have been sending them megawatt ERP radar signals for more than 60 years.
Something so utterly stupid that I would ban the practice immediately and entirely. And execute the protesters.
Stranger
September 30th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
If its inhabited by blue cat people I vote we kill them and take their preposterously named minerals.
September 30th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Ahhh, a completely irrefutable assertion forcefully presented about an issue of great interest! Smells like a soon-to-be-requested large grant for further study!
September 30th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Don’t try to contact them!!! NOOOO!
They may not be friendlies!
September 30th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
>If its inhabited by blue cat people I vote we kill them and take their preposterously named minerals.
If they’re cats with pink spacesuits, skip falling for the “empty stasis box trick” and go right on to teaching them “the Kzinti Lesson”
So much more satisfying than thinking about eating raw veggies.
September 30th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
The only thing you can count on being true in $cience is that the chances of grant grubbing are 100%.
September 30th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
You can prepare for the alien horde by checking how many light years away they are, subtract, carry the 3, and check what was on the networks that season. We may have a heap of ‘splainin to do when they get here. OTOH, they’ve never seen Fox News or CNN.
October 1st, 2010 at 12:14 am
120 Trillion miles away, 6 Trillion miles to the Light Year, so call it 20 years ago. CNN was on, Fox was not. Saddam had just invaded Iraq, so probably most of the news the aliens would be seeing now would be a lot of War Preparation footage and Politicians scrambling about the UN, while Jean Luc Picard would be fighting off the Borg. Of course, if they have FTL, then we are probably in the game preserve with the Big Sign on Pluto that reads “Don’t feed the Animals”. But if they DON”T have FTL, and it is inhabitable for us, we MUST insure the U.S. claims it before the Russians, Chinese or (God Forbid!) the FRENCH get there!
October 1st, 2010 at 5:02 am
I read this article on Slashdot yesterday, and one of the people involved in the project was nice enough to answer questions in the comments. He said he would not have said the chances of life being there as 100%, but, in his own opinion, something like 60%.
I still say 50/50, there either is or isn’t life there 😛
October 1st, 2010 at 7:32 am
Yea we are sending them a signal…. and they are Klingons.
Think about that. The Indians of America, if only they had known, would have kicked us off the beaches when the Mayflowwer showed up.
Not all strangers are nice.
October 1st, 2010 at 9:39 am
The fact that they have not contacted us may be proof positive that they are intelligent. Would YOU reach out to a warring planet??