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US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast
MarkWhittington writes "It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars."
What did they find?
They did catch a radio transmission, which said "Yvan eht nioj".
So is that why SETI doesn't get more funding? The Navy knows there aren't any signals out there because they're getting their allies to block any new incoming transmissions...
It all makes sense now!
-SaNo
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope
Earth.
Yip yip yip yip yip yip.
Huh! Look. Aaaawwwwww. Radio.
Radio.
Yip yip yip yip yip.
Radio
Uhuh, uhuh, Radio. Yipyipyipyipyip.
I don't therefore I'm not.
what I wouldn't give to be able to put a transmitter on Mars and fuck with them. "Bring me all your pretty girls and best beers or face destruction, puny Earthlings! And spell out 'Earth is Stupid' with your battleships so we can spot it from space."
Table-ized A.I.
They should have slapped a portable radio on the rovers. Then again cell phones might have been a better move. If AT&T is providing service on Mars there's no way the signal would reach Earth. It's crappy enough when you are standing under a tower.
"We're sorry, this is a long-distance call. Please hang up and deposit 8 million gold bars."
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This is good science. In 1924 we didn't have any strong reasons to think that there wasn't intelligent life on Mars. If anything, the evidence seemed to favor the other direction. Moreover, simply having ships listen in wouldn't have cost that much money. So this was an experiment with potentially very high pay-off compared to the resources it took. This does lead to some interesting ideas for a scifi story in which they do find signals. NaNoWriMo anyone?
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...."
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So is that why SETI doesn't get more funding? The Navy knows there aren't any signals out there because they're getting their allies to block any new incoming transmissions...
It all makes sense now!
SETI is for show and they hide the real stuff that is going on.
ALSO THE AIR FORCE HAS space ships based on allies tech.
also look at ...ghsdghashr..call dropped.
Message received: "This is the Large Hadron Collider from the future. Do not attempt to [static.......] last warning."
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The president at the time was Calvin Coolidge. Was this navy guy doing his own thing or was Cool Cal involved too?
We want to know if they're talking about stealing our precious bodily fluids.
are a million to one, he said!
Science fiction from decades previous inspired fear.
So is that why SETI doesn't get more funding? The Navy knows there aren't any signals out there because they're getting their allies to block any new incoming transmissions...
It all makes sense now!
SETI is for show and they hide the real stuff that is going on.
ALSO THE AIR FORCE HAS space ships based on allies tech.
also look at ...ghsdghashr..call dropped.
Shit. He knows too much!
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
It wasn't until the 1950s, I believe, that scientists began to realize that Venus and Mars were both utterly inhospitable. Indeed, the first Mariner photographs of Mars, that showed it to be almost moonlike, blasted with craters and seemingly ancient and dead, came as something of a shock to the academic community.
This is my sig.
My brother Karl Jansky and His Discovery (1929) of Radio Waves from Beyond the Earth
Maybe "MARS" is really an acronym for something like Marine Atmospheric Reflection Survey", but some dolt forgot it and did Mars instead.
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Actually, being at sea for a long time, they ignored the order and turned the antennas to Venus instead, hoping for some 3-breasted steamy green babes. "Hey babe, Earth's gravity is 20% stronger, meaning other things are 20% stronger also. Don't believe me? Hover down and check it out."
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The process of creating a martian broadcast is actually quite simple. The technology is decidely low tech and can be put together in a short afternoon using some wire and a bit of electronic ingenuity. With a Linux PC, a CAT5 ethernet cable, a scissors, a few twists of some SEND/RECV pairs and you can soon detect Martian broadcasts. It's possibly to do it entirely in software also, perhaps with some creative use of the BOND0 adapter, the bonding module, and some misplaced balance-alb statements, but it's hardly worth mentioning.
Search for Life on Mars? This is a topic for The Man. No, not David Bowie, but http://www.charlieleduff.com/ :)
Seriously, this is not any more strange than NASA doing SETI. Or why should it be?
Seriously....can we get actual science articles posted?
I don't even want to watch the video, those things used to scare the shit out of me as a kid! I had a recurring nightmare about them for years, I still don't understand why they still kind of creep me out.
Why is it that almost everyone thought they were great and just a few found them terrifying?
"Bring me all your pretty girls and best beers or face destruction, puny Earthlings!
Are you MAD, man? If they took you seriously they'd launch all the pretty girls into space! Noooooooo!
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I know that I read about this in the 1970's in some of the SETI scientific literature - I believe in Intelligent Life in the Universe (Carl Sagan & I.S. Shklovskii, Random House, 1966), but I don't have a copy handy.
Please no, The Sci-fi Channel changing their name to SyFy was bad enough. Please do not further this abomination of an abbreviation/rebranding. Call it Sci-Fi or SF, never SyFy.
Indeed, some scientists have found what would appear to be traces of artificial structures on Mars.
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2005/084/hale-civ-evidence.htm
Who knows what kind of life were there previously, recent investigations have revealed that Mars seem to be
a planet who once supported life, however now seemingly is dead, save perhaps, some bacterial life.
It would be easy to dismiss these structures as pictures artifacts, and jpeg-artifacts comes to mind, however
they don't look like that, and neither are they following surfaces in an angle in a pictures.
SyFy must be written by syentists.
If you make it generic then they'll lose their trademark and have to pick another (hopefully less-silly) name.
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The chances of anything living on Mars, are a million to one!
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Men are from Mars. Women are from...hell!
I predict 50 years from now people will look back and think that SETI was just as silly as listening for radio transmissions from Mars.
Proverbs 21:19
ever hear of the french revolution?
you think can continue civilization and the sending of people into outer space with the vandals and goths sacking your major cities?
it is a sort of ignorance that thinks the poor simply vanish into the ether if you don't address their problems. it is also pretty ignorant not to understand why some of those poor are your next heisenbergs and your next goddards
it is classism you stink of, and you are not a credit to anything you think are. you're part of the problem, damage to route around. wash off your classism and grow a fucking conscience
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The key is to remember that we really don't know anything at all, and try to quit extrapolating from the tiny bits of information we get.
My wife had a professor that she couldn't stand, the professor was saying how back in the day people thought that the earth stayed pretty steady, and the continents were always as they are, now, she said, we KNOW that they shifted from one continent called Pangaea. Sure that is the currently accepted theory, but hell, so was geocentricism and classical gravitational theory. Now we don't really have a clue what the center of the universe is (or even if their is one) and we know that F != G(m1+m2)/r^2, due to relativistic effects. In 50 years we will likely have invalidated general relativity likewise with a more accurate theory.
Remember, science gives an approximation of the truth, it is often close enough to be useful, but it is never 'right'.
I don't remember those characters at all, but I can see how kids might be a little creeped out by weird things that stare in through your window and can transport themselves through walls.
This video featuring them is much better, far less creepy: Sesame Street Yip Yip Martians try Gangsta Rap. It's a great piece of editing.
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We as intelligent people must use SyFy unerringly in order to display its absolute absurdity.
Watch out for the possessed Voidhawks! (or even Blackhawks!) No... not a person from Chicago... oh wait. Hmm. Nevermind.
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Too bad the Martians were broadcasting using an advanced FM technology, unknown to Earth Science.
Huh!
never mind the girls...
What about all those beers?
And was there any mention of aged Pinoqachole?