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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!)."
Blarg!
No, it DIDN'T fucking have to be done you goddamn moron.
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Since the Vulcans are too dumb to figure this stuff out and follow a philosophy we abandoned that hit its peak and quickly declined about two thousand years ago, I'd say that they are too dumb to have actually created warp technology on their own and they must have just stolen the technology from another civilization.
Good thinking. I myself have applied similar reasoning to demonstrate how unlikely it is for Al Gore to have created the Internet.
an iPod, and free music downloads, I dont really care what they do.
Get a free iPod from freeiPods.com
Pings are getting returned from newscientist's ip address (194.203.155.123) just fine... could someone with a little more knowledge of the vagaries of the Internet take a look at the situation and find out what exactly is wrong with newscientist's server?
A 100 pound laptop?
Not unless I have an 800 pound lap.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Dear God, I wish the mods would start modding this joke down. Seriously, this was funny maybe the 5 times after that Simpsons ep was aired, but now it pisses me off. Shut the FUCK up. Thanks.
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i second that motion.. and if i hadn't moved house and lost my mod points.....