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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!)."
nah, too easy
I don't think I've ever seen a website slashdotted so fast.
No comment.
...100 pound laptop
I for one welcome our new giant alien overlords!
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1028302004 /
So there.
Six score characters.
Brevity being wit's soul
I have enough space.
Oh come on, where are the mod points for G00F? That's a great line!
Zing, sir, zing.
"Prepare to be assimilated. We will add your biological and technological distinctives to our own. You will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
do you know believe that if there are any advanced civs out there that they'd want to rule all and not be friendly?? they'll either be like borg or independence day scenario (for our resources! what's left anyways).