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SETI Finds Interesting Signal
Several readers sent in notes about an interesting signal discovered by SETI. No real evidence of Someone Out There, but not fully explainable either. Another reader submits a blurb suggesting that aliens should send spacemail, not signals: "Rutgers electrical engineering professor, Christopher Rose, has an article on Nature magazine's cover today describing the most efficient way for our civilization to be discovered by aliens. On this question of better to 'write or radiate', his conclusions: better not to send radio transmission, when physical media like DNA on an asteroid can declare a terrestrial presence. Similar to what motivated Voyager scientists to attach a plaque for the outbound trip. Rose has some great information payload sizes as examples (like the entire information equivalent for our global genome fitting on a 100 pound laptop!)."
No one's gunna pay attention to us until we have warp drive anyway.
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When dealing with the vastness of space, how can you advocate physical over transmission. The article does nothing to describe why sending an object with mass 1/1000000 the size of a planet that we would notice is somehow preferable to trying to boost a signal.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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Everyone knows me.
Voyager scientists attach a plaque on the outbound trip - aliens attach a plague on the return trip.
If this turns out to be an MP3, it looks like someone is gonna get sued (it would be filed as RIAA v. Zorack Doe)
Pardon me while I step out to light up my giant "WELCOME TO EARTH" sign.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Oh what are you thinking?!
Everybody knows that if you send some genetically engineered organism into the vastness of space, it will only return far more advanced - and destroy us for sending it's ancestors to a dark and empty prison.
Duh.
Like Teddy with an elephant gun.
Slashdotted my ass. We were never supposed to know about this. The government cover-up is underway.
How true. Consider that the male image on Voyager had a teeny tiny penis, and it all starts to make sense.
The other option is a return message on a plaque, depicting a male alien with really large reproductive organs. That'll tell us, more than almost anything else, what sort of mentality we're dealing with.
...it read "PH1RST P0ST!!!"
Don't worry, NASA scientists have already modded them down.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
I for one welcome our new enigmatic radio-emitting hydrogen gas clouds.
Hello Baltzar, Great news! No intelligent life on third planet, but I just saved a bundle on my space-car insurance. Tell the Gecko we'll be over for dinner, 10-4, over-and-out, later buddy, Bizstar84!zirc (no spam) nept.com
Mike www.sharecube.com
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"Here is an article that is un-slashdotted as of 0057 Universal Time. "
You foolish humans and your 'universal' time. We from Persei Omicron 8 will smash you for your arrogance!
"Derp de derp."
Did I miss something or is it the first time the overlords are supposed to be intelligent?
That might be something to welcome indeed.
You there, you must be almost thirty. Have you ever kissed a girl?