Contact from Another World? - Democratic Underground

kerrywins

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:29 PM
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Contact from Another World?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040902/photos_sc/mdf684803&e=10&ncid=1756

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Droopy

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:34 PM
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1. Wouldn't that be something?

I'm thinking it's probably going to wind up being a technical gliche, though.

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RoeBear

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:45 PM
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2. It was silly to call it...

..."contact from an alien civilization". If it is a signal from intelligent life it's a signal that was sent hundreds if not thousands of years ago.

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Algorem

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:54 PM
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3. how can they tell how far away it came from?

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Deja Q

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:58 PM
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4. Exactly.

Not all civilizations exist simultaneously. Only republicans believe that. And they can't because they 'think' only the US is intelligent. :eyes:

Better, radio waves are limited to the speed of sound. That's very slow.

If it is from another civilization, it's either advanced beyond the need for corporeal bodies or it's toast.

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kerrywins

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Sat Sep-04-04 02:00 PM
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6. I thought radio waves travel at the speed of light?

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politicat

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Sat Sep-04-04 02:09 PM
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7. speed of light.

the signals are about 1000 light years away, and a light year is 9,500,000,000,000 km. So this signal - if it's a REAL signal, which it may just be an anomaly (not that we can't learn a lot from anomalies!!) - is about 9,500,000,000,000,000 klicks away.

There's a BIG discussion about this at slashdot.org under the science category. You might want to look at it.

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MrSandman

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Sat Sep-04-04 01:59 PM
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5. Dupe...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1627646

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