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- iam413x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53I wonder if the aliens will have their own agency to sue us for pirating their content.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45If there's intelligent life on other planets, I'm guessing that they don't watch TV at all.
- rodbibeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Aren't we doing this already?
ARCIBO?
SETI? - axox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40I would pay a ridiculous amount of money to watch another planet's news channels.
Especially if they spend an entire day fear mongering about a truck stopped at a port or gas-like odors in NYC. - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I'm sure if aliens picked up any of our TV broadcasts the MPAA would issue a suit immediately against them for no less than 10,000 galactic credits per episode 'downloaded' from our planet.
- gdragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Translation of jake8689 into English:
"why not imeam things like to be entetained hell all animals on earth do why animals on anouther planet"
"Why not? I mean, things like to be entertained. Hell, all animals on Earth do. Why not animals on another planet?"
** Makes me wonder if we have any hope of understanding other life forms. It's hard enough understanding English speaking humans. ** - Fascist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24If they find broadcasts, they must be thousands of years old.
I find that quite fascinating. - LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I'm surprised that the technology has already reached that stage. Although I am still betting that the "era of transmission" within a civilization is still pretty short on a cosmological scale. Already we are moving a lot of our transmissions into a much more focused area (fiber optics, cable, narrow focus, etc.). I do hope we find something though. 30 Light Years could make for an interesting "conversation".
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Calvin & Hobbes
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/calvin-on-intelligent-life.jpg - Jimgress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14this sort of thing always amazes me and I cannot stress how important it is for humanity to pursue something that is intrinsic to learning about the universe around us.
The concept of alien worlds and intelligence is mind boggling, even the slightest evolutionary variation would result in a vastly different species and would have so much to do with what sort of things they may find as entertainment, if they have that.
For example, aliens might have a MTV that actually plays music.
I know, mind boggling. - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14RIAALIEN?
- martin993, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14ALIEN PORN!
You were all thinking it... - bushawa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@noahhoward
"Why do we use ourselves for the model of human life?"
Because we are human?
@mweels
"I think its funny that we think other >plants< are watching tv"
I find that hilarious too! - lulutv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"If they find broadcasts, they must be thousands of years old."
Oh yuck, they'll probably be black and white re-runs then. - Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not very useful if the use digital encoding, I doubt they will use MPEG to encode it...
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Except they look like ALF and their alien looks like us and keeps trying to eat their pet chicken.
- neokyotodragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I would think aliens would have different means of transmitting TV to everyone...ways that we simply can't just detect like we would our own signals..
- Taby666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9They only check at a maximum distance of 30 light years, so the signal are not that old.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us.
i forgot where i read that. - Derelict267, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah they've been doing this for a long long time, searching for short-length wave radio broadcasts, signals, etc.
- lulutv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8We'll be saddened to find that the most popular shows syndicated throughout space are surveillance and blooper videos of us being buffoons. "watch this next part where they blow each other to smithereens over pretend lines drawn on the map. if you think that's funny you should see their faces when they mate."
Whatever, as long as it isn't hosted by Kennedy. - bruin7089, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Reruns of Alf.
- therippa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I thought that they didn't have their own TV stations, but watched thousand-year-old broadcasts of our shows, like Single Female Lawyer.
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9WOW! What if they actually send TV broadcasts and we were able to interpret them?? That'd be so awesome. Imagine watching thousand year old television from a civilization you know you're never going to come any closer to than this.
- chrisemaj7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I have it on good authority that the top stories on ACNN (Alpha Centauri Network News) are currently the death toll in Iraq, Brittany Spears' undergarments (or lack thereof) and global warming. Oprah is considering opening a school in their solar system for poor AC pod children. But there is a problem. Apple has filed a lawsuit against AC claiming that the use of the word "pod" in pod children is a copywrite violation.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You know, actually, I wasn't.
- spartan018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7you cant stop the signal.
- wirah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7jake8689... errr. what?
- JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I want to Believe !
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hasn't SETI been doing this for ages, though? This site is acting like it's this huge never-before-attempted feat, but this has been exactly the purpose of SETI for years and years and all they've succeeded in finding were a few impressive quasars and pulsars.
Edit: rodbibeau and Derelict267 beat me to it - Jolls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Jake8689 has had too much TV already it would appear
- daecrist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Aren't we doing this already?
ARCIBO?
SETI?"
Maybe you should read the article before forming your response? From the article:
"Current efforts to find extraterrestrial life look for messages deliberately beamed across space - an approach that would miss any civilisation that does not advertise its existence as Earth's does.
The new effort would search a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum used on Earth for more mundane purposes - radar, television and FM radio broadcasts." - b612, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am almost 100 percent positive that life exists or existed on other planets. Space and Time are both pretty much infinite, therefore the odds are highly in favor of it happening even if it happend say 100 trillion years ago 100 trillion lightyears away.
- willclarke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sweet Zombie Jesus, we have thousands of channels of television, you think that would be enough. But no, we need to check for TV on other planets.
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4SETI isn't actually doing the "TV Signal" search, but rather looking for much more highpower signals, such as the one we sent from Aricebo back in the 70s. This is a TOTALLY different level of technology and strategy. This particular strategy is much more likely to find something because it doesn't depend on someone activelly sending a signal AT us, but rather catching the stuff that is leaking out.
As for other civilizations being able to detect us, assuming they have the same technology as us, the only signal that would be detectable outside of 30 light years is that ONE signal we sent from Aricebo. All the rest would just be too weak... Hence why this is newsworthy and quite exciting. - Jimgress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you're right, but I think the main reason why they pursue things similar to our own model of human life is simply because we have no other model to base ourselves off of.
Last time I checked we are not aware of any self aware species.... with radio telescopes and other technology.
It is an arrogance, but it's mostly an ignorance. - HolyCrapYo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yeah, but you said it!
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Umm, surely those odds should be if they DID find something...Otherwise, I'll take your odds!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The RIAALIEN already exists http://www.rael.org/
- skull24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Man, I wonder what the show Cops would be like on an other world.
- mattus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The fatal assumption, as ever, is that aliens will communicate in exactly the same way we do. Why should they use radio waves like ours? Why should they even watch TV in the first place? We'll only get outside our little box when we start thinking outside of it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Common sense would tell me that alien life wont be useing radio waves like we do. Or other basic forms of human transmission. I am glad we are at least trying, but didnt we do that with seti?? I think we are sending the wrong signals. It seems to be alot of UFO sightings happened after heroshima, i think we should light signals instead.
- kyledavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Because if we spend the money searching for other intelligent life, we might find it. On the other hand, if we spend the money trying to solve our problems, then even after all that money is spent, we'll still have problems. If all we ever do is try to solve all our problems, then we'll never make progress on anything else. I mean, after all, your same argument could apply to anything because everything else ALWAYS appears to be less important than food and shelter, but there will always be people who are hungry and homeless.
Why doesn't it seem smarter to spend money on a problem or question that we might actually resolve? - zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And a broken keyboard.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I get the strangest feeling when I hear about searches like this. It is so sweet and so human to try but do you remember Carl Sagan's "Reflections on a Mote of Dust?" We really are a speck... and though we are reaching out we are by no means reaching far. I understand that we have to try, but don't get your hopes up. What these scientists are doing is only a fraction better than you or I opening a window, reaching out and feeling around for aliens. And yet... ya gotta start somewhere.
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This little planet is full of thousand and thousands of naked frolicking creatures, do you find any of them appealing?
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thats the first thing I thought of. I mean, the chances of us even finding a signal are slim to nil, but then put in the chances that the other civilization is using the same methods to watch and transmit TV signals, and its really, really small.
- Sh0cker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hope they have better scripted porn
Imagine a porn flick/tear jerker/adventure
That would apply to the whole household - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How the hell did you figure that out?
- trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well if their television is anything like ours, good luck finding any signs of intelligence :)
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