Do not respond
I’m not saying it’s aliens. But if it is, leave them alone.
Supposedly, an advance alien race has sent some sort of messaging beacon and SETI claims to have received it.
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August 30th, 2016 at 8:15 pm
Really? Contacting us?
It’s 95 light years away.
That means they sent it at least 95 years ago and if they’re responding to discovering us, that means they noticed us at least 190 years and possibly longer ago.
Do you think they were complimenting us for discovering the steam engine?
August 30th, 2016 at 9:02 pm
Attempting to contact alien beings is the dumbest thing “scientists” have ever done. What evidence do they have that the entire universe doesn’t work just like this dump. These are the same people who claim evolution through survival of the fittest, right? Stupid.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Apparently the Ruskies detected the signal more than a year ago, and failed entirely to report it to SETI per international agreements. So, essentially, there is only a report of a signal, which no one outside of Russia can actually confirm or deny the existence of. Slow ego trip day for Russia, maybe?
August 30th, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Cool. Now we have both cold fusion and alien radio programs. Was it a commercial for alien skin cream?
I’ll believe it when I can step aboard an alien star ship and take a ride in it to Alpha Centauri and back, or more likely would be when we’re hopelessly overcome by an alien attack.
Otherwise I’ll take any such story as a desperate bid for attention and dismiss it out of hand.
“Oh wait” we will hear in a few weeks or months, “we were just listening to transmissions from someone’s radio-controlled model car across the hall and the intermodulation distortion from it got into our gazillion-dollar radio telescope installation’s signal processors. Never mind (but wasn’t it exciting while it lasted, and by the way please give us some money because this SETI shit is super important)”.
I remember when pulsars were first detected. Their extremely regular radio pulses we’re take to be evidence of alien technology too.
These findings are often fascinating I’ll admit, but no one ever does anything about them, and they’re never the result of alien technological civilizations. Furthermore, they’re always “explained” to us in such dumbed-down fashion as to be worthless and insulting.
Mostly it’s all about the money. “We’re smarter than you, we’re doing important shit even if you don’t understand it (and especially when you don’t understand it) and so give us your fucking money and don’t ask too many questions, and in return we’ll make some visually interesting videos using computer graphics and you can get stoned and trip out over them. Deal?”
August 30th, 2016 at 10:52 pm
@lyle As long as it wasn’t an ad for ‘Ragnars Human Rinds’ I think we’re OK.
August 31st, 2016 at 12:32 am
Eh. The lag time means any communication will arrive long after even your children are dead.
August 31st, 2016 at 5:42 am
Fittingly, the network formerly known as SyFy re-ran “To Serve Man” this morning. I’m not saying it’s a cookbook.
August 31st, 2016 at 7:25 am
I’ve been accused of being the advance guard, and RobertaX once referred to me in a comment as ‘little green man.” I steadfastly claim no knowledge of what SETI has been receiving.
August 31st, 2016 at 8:27 am
But Global Warming!
August 31st, 2016 at 9:16 am
Russia held it for a year then released it. The signal is more likely from a satellite passing within range, and not all satellites have declared orbits.
One way to jab a stick NRO’s eye would be to tell the world’s caffeine-addicted SETI watchers to train their signal analyzers on the presumed orbital path of an undeclared US defense satellite. I can imagine a mission manager at NRO throwing his coffee cup at a wall.
If I’ve learned anything in the last year, it is that Putin’s Russia has one hell of a sense of humor. They troll like none other.