drunkenfool
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http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/18031/SETI_Makes_Alien_Contact
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Robin
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so its a hoax then 
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Robin
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i meant that particular story, not the whole thing
but.... you give a good arguement there B 
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John
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Anything we can see has had to travel for millions of years to get to us.
We can't see that far in any sort of high resolution either.
Even if we received alien signals, they could have been sent that long ago that the galaxy they live in has long since been destroyed.
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John
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We can't get anywhere significant in a lifetime.
And unless the current models and laws are found to be incorrect we never will be able to.
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Cybermonkey
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most articles on shoutwire are a hoax SETI gets hundreds of received signals from outer space daily, all of them are radio discharges from a large interstellar explosion
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Anything we can see has had to travel for millions of years to get to us.
We can't see that far in any sort of high resolution either.
Even if we received alien signals, they could have been sent that long ago that the galaxy they live in has long since been destroyed.
actually John, about 15 of the closest stars to Earth are now receiving the very first radio and television signals...
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
quote:
Originally posted by John
Anything we can see has had to travel for millions of years to get to us.
We can't see that far in any sort of high resolution either.
Even if we received alien signals, they could have been sent that long ago that the galaxy they live in has long since been destroyed.
actually John, about 15 of the closest stars to Earth are now receiving the very first radio and television signals...
How do you know this? And the first major televised event was Germanys Nurenburg rally in 1938, Hitler will be looked upon as a god.
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John
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He knows it because the signals travel at about the speed of light, which would now be reaching starts about what, 80 light years away.
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Dan B
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Interview from one of the SETI@Home lot:
"This is certainly not the first time that someone circulates the message that a hot signal has been found without providing the hard facts that everyone can see and check. Of course we all in the SETI community hope that one day a definitive signal is detected; but this is not the same as someone hearing that a "hot" signal has been detected, overestimating or exaggerating the facts. SETI has found millions or much more candidate signals, some "warm" and some "hot". I would like to see more facts and a serious confirmation of the signal by SETI standard procedures before I would like to pay a lot of attention to this "news". I remember hearing this "news" every now and then, often in summer time when news are scarce and stories about Loch Ness etc. get more attention than usual."
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drunkenfool
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 Damn shoutwire
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