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- Hipple, on 12/05/2007, -1/+79I really hope I live a few more hundred years. I feel like some cool ***** is gonna go down.
- blankhorizons, on 12/05/2007, -15/+74Yeah dude, thanks for shedding light on this huge massive coverup, excellent evidence, strong points! My only question is, legally speaking, are you retarded?
- airwalkery2k, on 12/05/2007, -2/+46And it's always possible that aliens found a more efficient or different way of transmitting data.
We're assuming here that civilization and technology are linear, and that radio waves would be used forever as a means of communication.
I hope I am proved wrong. - RoyalPwner, on 12/05/2007, -2/+37Yeah. And cool ***** has been going down.
Think: Planes. Combustion Engine. Electric lightbulb. And I could go on and on. - xirtap, on 12/06/2007, -0/+34If only they had recognized the warning, so many lives would have been spared..
- bicyclethief, on 12/05/2007, -1/+32I knew I should have gone with the fish tank screensaver.
- petemcfraser, on 12/05/2007, -1/+28Author's estimate was 42.
Author isn't Douglas Adams.
Preparing for logic fail. - monospaced, on 12/05/2007, -1/+28They've been saying that for thousands of years.
- VAXcat, on 12/05/2007, -5/+31 Use of the term "timfoil hat" is considered pejorative. We prefer the term "Faraday Beanie".
- Biks, on 12/05/2007, -3/+27Holy crap! I (as the submitter) made it to the front page! :-) Woo hoo!
I'm personally for the "rare earth" theory. Then again, with global warming, it may have to be called the "medium to well done" theory. - jb55, on 12/05/2007, -1/+23Dugg for title
- caerwyn, on 12/05/2007, -17/+38I hear there are some great deals on tinfoil hats to be found this holiday season...
- sotopheavy, on 12/05/2007, -10/+31I see what you did there.
- dafragsta, on 12/05/2007, -2/+19All within the past 100 years. Humanity is about to take a quantum leap in technology in the next hundred... literally a quantum leap. When we start working with computers that can process all potential outcomes, while doubling their performance every year, all technology and biology will begin to benefit. Read up on the technological singularity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singula ... - Biks, on 12/05/2007, -1/+17C'mon..how many puns have you seen off of "SETI"? :-)
- chaosium, on 12/05/2007, -0/+16THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THIIIINK
- gn0stik, on 12/05/2007, -0/+16Pfft. That's cheating, he chose the answer to everything. Of course it's gonna be right.
- 471776, on 12/05/2007, -2/+16A new way of scanning for signals? Just exactly how many ways are there to scan radio frequencies?
- i208khonsu, on 12/06/2007, -1/+14Our current understanding of physics doesn't really allow other means...
- 471776, on 12/05/2007, -4/+16And some people just want to believe.
- neodorian, on 12/06/2007, -0/+12Well I for one welcome our trendy turtleneck wearing overlords.
- cococooky, on 12/05/2007, -4/+16The Disclosure Project http://www.disclosureproject.org
Fixed your link for you. - andrewrocks, on 12/05/2007, -10/+21I was about to add the obligatory disclosure project link, but I see someone beat me to it. Sucks that you're getting dugg down. People just don't want to believe.
- junk, on 12/05/2007, -1/+12Dugg for the interactive Drake equation tool.
- OneLess, on 12/06/2007, -2/+12So your reply to people who would say a coverup is impossible is "NUH UH". Somehow I'm not convinced.
- neodorian, on 12/06/2007, -1/+11Dugg if only for the joke.
- sgoogle, on 12/05/2007, -1/+11New scanning method resulted in a saturation of 'ET communications'? Sounds like a bug to me
- aB0z, on 12/06/2007, -0/+9"Speed is not a factor, the chips are used to analyse deep space signals. We have tried Pentiums but they get stuck on the noise. The 486 analyses the signal gets to the noise and says I don't recognise noise and keeps performing."
You seem to have a very poor understanding of electronics and computers. That is why you believe BS conspiracy stories. I certainly believe that the government hides things from us, and that they may have better technology than is available to the average citizen. I DON'T believe your crackpot story about 486 CPUs, with it's glaring factual and logical errors. - BESTenemy, on 12/06/2007, -0/+9I remember some comedian saying that the very proof of existence of "intelligent" life in the universe is the fact that they've never visited us.
- aelias, on 12/06/2007, -2/+11I wish you hadn't. Greer is a ***** wackjob. He's all about disclosure, but he doesn't disclose *****. Why not tell everyone what they used to find all those signals? Nope, he spends his time talking to non-journalists about corporate coverups and military spending. What the hell does that have to do with data that's freely available?
- williamdyer, on 12/06/2007, -0/+9Yeah WTF is it with the not-very-alien aliens? Aliens should be strange, different - ALIEN! Those spider things from Babylon 5, for example. THAT's an alien. Some hot chick with a bumpy bald head? Not so much.
- Kazbaeden, on 12/06/2007, -2/+10"...some fraction of the 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 star systems..."
Scientific notation was invented for a reason... - aintnoprophet, on 12/05/2007, -2/+10We get signal.
- MacEnvy, on 12/06/2007, -2/+10That doesn't make it more sensible, or more likely. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", after all.
- iiDLii, on 12/06/2007, -0/+8For some reason I imagine you to sound like Butters when I read your first comment :)
- blankhorizons, on 12/06/2007, -0/+8Um, dude. This is Digg.
- webcrumb, on 12/05/2007, -1/+8A .org would be a lot more convincing if they didn't ask for a donation to access their files.
- xtc46, on 12/05/2007, -1/+8and they were right... look how much "cool *****" has happened in the last thousand years. Guns, Cars, Planes, Bombs, computers, the internet, brain surgery, landing on the moon (soon to be mars) cool ***** happens every day.
- mdoerr, on 12/06/2007, -0/+7I DONT see what he did there; what'd he do there?
- wallet55, on 12/05/2007, -0/+7i loved playing with the interactive drake equation, my best estimates of what i think likely, where i feel i have some knowledge, is between .1 and 3 civilizations in our galaxy. what did others come up with? the real question, not implied in this thing, was whether that was the number that we could expect to hear signals from, or those that might be actually active now, (and we would have to survive long enough to get their signals)
- BenRS, on 12/06/2007, -0/+7All you have to do is take a physics class that involves a treatment of light to understand that regardless the "scanning method," there is no way that a dish the size of SETI could possibly get "saturated" by incoming intelligent signals or get "the motherload." There's just too much space. Think the distance to Mars is far? Well the signal strength is inversely proportional to area, not just distance, so multiply that distance by 4*Pi*Distance again and that's what you'd have to divide the original intensity by to get the singal strength there.
It doesn't matter even if such a method magically makes the scanning far more efficient, because coverups and conspiracies require the burden of truth due to rarity and complexity, so you should really find direct evidence of said coverups before believing them, not just take the first scrap of evidence and decide that proves it.
The sad part is that I'm guessing there's a good chance that you smugly write of religious folks as irrational people; sometimes it seems like conspiracies have become the religion for those that don't want religion.
Some day we'll probably make contact with aliens, but I'm willing to bet that we won't observe them through SETI. - SlipstreamLucas, on 12/06/2007, -0/+7it makes me wonder, if there WAS some sort of cover up, and you knew somthing about it, how would you tell people? how would you do it differently to this guy?
- williamdyer, on 12/06/2007, -1/+8How long was the F117, which required the participation of THOUSANDS of people to design, build and operate, flying before anyone knew about it?
- Blu1913, on 12/05/2007, -0/+7So who are the powers that be, if not the government?
- semiotix, on 12/06/2007, -2/+9The problem with SETI is that, if it works, we'll potentially have to deal with an intelligent alien race with only our own science fiction to guide us, and that's pretty much guaranteed to get us nuked from orbit.
Besides, I'm not interested in alien life unless it's EXACTLY like a fictional alien species I'm already familiar with. Klingons? Sure. Something that looks and acts like a Klingon except it's blue? Pass. And I don't want any crappy direct-to-video or syndicated aliens, either. If the "Earth: Final Conflict" or "Space: Above and Beyond" aliens show up, forget it. - Biks, on 12/06/2007, -0/+7Right. What you want is something with a rubber, bumpy thing on their forehead. (see: any humanoid alien on the SciFi channel.) :-P
- megaton, on 12/06/2007, -0/+6Right. Because quantum entanglement isn't actually physics...
- revenge7, on 12/06/2007, -0/+6I hope Kurzweil knows what he's talking about.
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