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Message Ideas by MMatessa · 2005-03-21 04:37 · Score: 1 · on How To Talk To Aliens

Some message ideas for interstellar communication can be found at http://www.matessa.org/~mike/inter-comm.html

Most messages start with simple math, then work their way up to geometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, etc.

Other habitable zone planets? by Jason+T.+Wright · 2002-10-09 13:43 · Score: 5, Informative · on Planet Found in Double Star System

it seems very possible that the planet might have a moon of roughly Earth's size and climate. I believe this is the first discovery that comes close to matching those criteria."

You believe wrongly.

HD28185 b and IotaHor b both could support moons with liquid water, year-round.

HD27442 b (aka Epsilon Reticulum) could also do it.

Other planets visit their star's habitable zones, too. Even though most of these other planets have eccentric orbits which would take them in and out periodically, they still "come close to matching those criteria".

Also a much better link to details of the Gamma Cephei system can be found here.

This actually isn't a new message by supruzr · 2002-01-08 20:36 · Score: 1 · on Search for Terrestrial Intelligence

This is just THIS MESSAGE encoded differently. I downloaded this about 9 months ago from a more obscure site. I wouldn't call it "new" given that age. The message in jpg form will be difficult for some to decipher, doubtless. They should at least update the Mersenne prime.

We already broadcast by GenetixSW · 2001-10-07 02:53 · Score: 2, Informative · on SETI@Home to Crunch More Data

And it many ways, at that.

Consider the fact that we've had radios for a hundred years now, and TVs for quite a while now. Add to that cell phones and satellite communications, and you've got a nice big EM bubble around Earth, of radius 100 light-years (since EM travels at light speed, and we've been sending them out for a century).

Granted, a hundred light-years isn't much, but if aliens within that distance are looking out for signals in the same way that we are, they've got quite a large source of incoming info.

But there's more! On March 15, 1999, a 400 000 bit-long transmission was sent out to four "local" star systems suspected of harbouring life. Take a look at the fascinating Encounter 2001 transmission. It's absolutely worth a look. Try to figure some of it out too, just for fun =) IMO, it's brilliant.

So we are, after all, broadcasting quite a lot, whether it be specific targetting or general.

Cheers.

Anticryptography by aaronsb · 2001-02-27 03:57 · Score: 1 · on Anticryptography

Seems that we have a way to go in anticryptography. Once you've recieved some of the messages that people have sent, you'd have to really think about how to reassemble them and figure out what they mean.

Try http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil-dumas.html for example. There are instructions on how to interpet it, but it's not something that the common person is going to be able to decipher quickly.

Re:Selected Interpretations by flumps · 2001-01-09 19:35 · Score: 2 · on Is There Anybody Out There?

http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil/p8.html

"And this, Mr Alien, shows you just how memory intesive Windows is..."

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Live Nude Teen Earthlings! by majcher · 2001-01-09 17:22 · Score: 1 · on Is There Anybody Out There?

I see the hidden agenda here - slowly, but surely, we are broadcasting all of Earth's pornography into space. This way, when the hammer finally comes down on the perverts here, we will have ensured the preservation of one of our most precious resources. Brilliant.

Correction to Selected Interpretations by alexburke · 2001-01-09 17:21 · Score: 3 · on Is There Anybody Out There?

My bad: these two images are two halves of one image (indicated by the alignment marks on the right-hand side of 19 and the left-hand side of 20) and depict Earth's continents in today's layout, but with an East-Up layout that confused me at first.

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Correction to Selected Interpretations by alexburke · 2001-01-09 17:21 · Score: 3 · on Is There Anybody Out There?

My bad: these two images are two halves of one image (indicated by the alignment marks on the right-hand side of 19 and the left-hand side of 20) and depict Earth's continents in today's layout, but with an East-Up layout that confused me at first.

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