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SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020
FTL writes "Based on the Drake Equation, Moore's Law, and the Allen Telescope, a new prediction has been made that Earth will make first contact with aliens within 20 years. Of course once we find the first aliens there's the question of can we decode their signals, would they spot our reply, and what's the lag time."
And I predict that I'll get laid by 2020....
I'm glad "sending a radio message back will take centuries," because I'm not sure that a response back of "humans on earth, eh? we'll be right over," is a Good Thing (TM).
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
...and monkeys will start walking erect, too.
Oh, wait.
I could be wrong.
I've seen it at least 10 times since it's first release. I'm starting to get sick of Elliot's whinning.
Kiss my bass.
This calculation doesn't include the number of people turned off from the SETI@Home project by the new BOINC software.
2020, just in time to send my first and brightest to Battle School.
We're already here.
The green alien babes don't want you, either...
Pinging aliens with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for aliens:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 148 years, Maximum = 163 years, Average = 156 years
C:\Documents and Settings\Valentine Johnson>
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
SETI says 2020, so now we have a new Internet deadline to watch. I bet they strike gold next year sometime or the year after. And when they do, I bet the Aliens look like giant chickens and they kick our asses for KFC.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
...oops, a few years too early.
...that Aliens are susceptible to Macintosh Viruses! (What was that movie? Was it "Judgement Day"? I forgot the name.)
Best Buy can have you arrested
I guess a game of Doom 3 with our new extraterrestrial friends is out of the question.
Top Greeblorg scientists have determined that an alien species located on Sol 3 have discovered our civilization!
All radio and digitized light arrays should be temporarily taken off-line and back-ups of all data secured.
A phenomenon the Solerians refer to as Slash-Dotting is certain to disable all arrays with less than a direct quantum connection to the central data core
Greeblorg drones have assured the prime council that appropriate measures are in place to protect the central data core from damage, though interruption to communications to and from the central data core are likelyThat is all
Just as irrigation is the lifeblood of the Southwest, lifeblood is the soup of cannibals. -- Jack Handy
What if we finally detect messages from alien civilizations and all they say are things like
- Enlarge Your Penis
- Make $$$$ At Home
- A Letter from Npambara Ngamba: My Dear Friend, I am trying to move a large quantity of money out of my country...
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
I think an even more important question for them is what side dishes go well with human?
ping -s -R -A inet6 -a aliencivilizations
Duh.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
..on a platter. With mushrooms, and perhaps with a nice side of granite crunchies.
A Lightweight Extraterrestrial Intercommunication Network Transmission Protocol. ALIENTP
Now, ALIENTP is a protocol for transmission of data through high bandwidth - high latency (anywhere from 5s to 500 million years) networks....ALIENTP is composed of three basic components:
The HUMAN, the SPACE and the EXTRATERRESTRIAL. The HUMAN (Huge Uber-Manlike Android Noisemaker) sends a type of EM AM signal through SPACE (Some Place Allocated for Cosmic Entities) to the EXTRATERRESTRIAL (Ex-Xenophobia Technical Race of Aliens Trying to Extract Ridiculous Rural Eccentrics Solely for Tests Requiring Initial Anal Lubrication).....
I'm sick. I know
--<Mike>--
Top Ten Questions about the aliens:
;)
1) Will the aliens be allowed to backup media that they legally own?
2) Do they have oil? Maybe we can go to war with them...
3) Will the aliens be hit with DirectTV threat letters from their Uranus for intercepting a crappy signal?
4) How will the $3,500 DirectTV blood money be converted into their currency?
5) Will the patent office be flooded with new alien claims to gifs, automatic software download and Linux? Maybe aliens created ELF?
6) Will they be covertly tagged with RDIFs when they arrive, so they can be tracked by Walmart?
7) Are these the same aliens that are on Opra and Jerry Springer, which thrive in our trailer parks?
8) Will jobs be outsourced or "co-sourced" to their planet? Will I have to wait on hold for 6 hrs for someone to translate my problem?
9) Can they work 14 hr days? You know, because they would be salaried employees of course.
10) Are they democrats or republicans? You know we don't really like independants
int27h
...and a fine chianti.
But we might be an abberation. The rest of the universe may be all "peace-groovy, brother" and we got saddled with the wingnuts. Probably not though.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Man, imagine if they evolved from lobsters...mmmmmm....6ft tall lobsters.
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What would Bill Clinton do?
Yes, it's true that today fusion power is still 20-30 years away, but there is good reason to believe that in another 50 years, it will only be 10-15 years away.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
That may be true now, but not necessarily in 20 years. Heck, in 20 years we may discover a more practical way to transmit over vast distances... and suddenly discover aliens are already trying to communicate with us. And soon after, the first intergalactic Counterstrike games will begin... Of course the latency would be horrible, but it's bound to happen.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?