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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -21/+209What a load of crap. SETI is a private scientific community. If they had found something, they would've announced it.
- BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -7/+142I think Mythbusters (or something similar) found that wearing a tinfoil hat will actually AMPLIFY, not block, electronic (ie: brain control!) signals.
- peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -33/+164OKay sir your intelligence shines here. The seti project is radio signals. NOT lens.
and personally I wouldn't doubt this....it was only a matter of time till they did make contact with someone. Whats very interesting is that is being jammed...but why? :) - extratired, on 10/12/2007, -2/+91wifi? in space? I'm 2 stories above my router and I can't even get a decent signal!
- floodyberry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+83http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Greer
"According to a 2003 interview with Steven Greer by Paula Peterson, Greer saw his first UFO in 1963 and has since learnt how to make contact with alien space crafts. He says that a spiritual level of consciousness is required to make the inter-dimensional contact with extraterrestrials." - nogami, on 10/12/2007, -30/+105The US government can't even win a war in a 3rd world country - what makes anyone think they're even remotely capable of blocking signals from extraterrestrials...?
N. - node3, on 10/12/2007, -10/+77Steven Greer is a nutjob (the polite way of saying "charlatan") who has absolutely nothing to do with SETI.
The only people who should listen to him are psychiatrists. - bjtitus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67SETI has said multiple times that there is no way that the information could get "jammed" by governmental interference. There data is spread around the world and analyzed by multiple sources multiple times. There's no way the government could track down all this info and keep everyone quiet. It's not like in the movies where one guy is sitting there and hears the sound, the signal is analyzed all over the place and then the data is sent to multiple databases to be analyzed by scientists, who THEN make the call and publish their findings so that the larger community can debate.
- bluemeep, on 10/12/2007, -5/+67Aliens? A big story? Pshaw! We're much more interested in Britney's rapid-fire cooter exposures than anything like *that*.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+63This is a hoax, right? There's just no way this is real and it's slipped under the media's radar since the middle of November. This would be the biggest story in human history if true.
- Narpas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54I hate to be the guy who just cries, "burried! title inaccurate!" so I'll give the full explanation.
When I saw this, I didn't think to click the link. I just put seti.org into my address bar asap. I kinda figured a headline like, "Holy *****. A computer at the University of Kentucky's CS department got a positive read." I got, "How Much Does SETI Require Robots? by Adrian Brown". Confused and disappointed, I checked the actual link. It's a buncha conspiracy nuts who think it's their duty to make big announcements for other organizations.
And that's why I bury. - sanman, on 10/12/2007, -30/+81ROFL, it shows what the quality of diggers is, when they're all giving +diggs to conspiracy theorists, and digging down the skeptics.
Just remember, controlled nuclear fusion power has already been discovered and harnessed, but it's just a secret govt conspiracy that's keeping it away from the public. ;P - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46I bet they've given up watching LOST. Stars will form and die before that series finishes.
- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44@treelovinhippie
"as proof of aliens basically reduces the credibility of religious texts to less than nothing"
Please, Aliens know that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God is the one true god. Why do you think Aliens visit earth? Earth is the Holy Land of the galaxy. Jerusalem is the Holy land of Earth. Therefore, it is the holiest point in the Universe. We know it. The Gelgameks know it. The Joozians know it. The Answer to the old question "What does God need with a Starship" is to make sure the REST of the universe knows it as well.
Onward valiant leader. God not only wants you to spread freedom to the middle east, Jesus wants you to spread it to the universe. It only takes one letter to liberate E from T. That is W.
/ Hopefully it is not necessary to say the above is satire.
// I have no idea what "to liberate E from T" means, but it sounds Republican. - harrygibus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44Bartman818-Quote from the video: "I'm not going to give the name (of the source) yet because we're trying to coax this guy out of the closet."
So this means Tom Cruise works for SETI? - stoops, on 10/12/2007, -24/+63The aliens are probably just trying to tune into Apple's next conference feed in 2007. Nothing to see here folks, please move on...
- wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -16/+53Question: how would they jam the radio signals? Put a satellite directly over every radio satellite, following where they point all the time, and beam down radio signals of the correct frequency to mask an alien signal...? Seems a little far-fetched, unless I'm missing some much simpler method of interfering with radio telescopes. : /
And I believe it was some MIT students who figured out that tinfoil hats amplify many signals. - Bartman818, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Quote from the video: "I'm not going to give the name (of the source) yet because we're trying to coax this guy out of the closet."
- daveddd, on 10/12/2007, -18/+55http://www.disclosureproject.org
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Quote from the video: "I'm not going to give the name (of the source) yet because we're trying to coax this guy out of the closet."
I had no idea Tom Cruise joined SETI. This explains everything- they've made contact with Xenu. - siodine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I remember seeing a documentary on the SETI project, and they specifically said that if they found evidence of alien life, no government would be able to censor them due to the way their organization is built.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29They're probably wondering if QVC delivers to Alpha Centauri. They saw a great sterling silver bracelet for their girlfriend the other night after that informercial about the Ab Lounge.
- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28If true it would be the stupidest conspiracy ever, while also being the best by the sheer size of it.
- KayinNasaki, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31Cleary the only reason we're losing is that it's an intentional, sinister plot by George Bush. Clearly you underestimate the might of our tyrannical government!
........... - dukrous, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31Does the term "biggest crock of ***** I've heard all day" mean anything? Buried as inaccurate.
- Abatrour, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25CNN is a joke now.
- m1ss1ontomars, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22no; i think you're lame.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Just because there's no intelligent life in your home, doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't have any. You're an ***** and I'm glad pricks like you aren't in charge of science funding in America... oh wait...
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20When the presenter disclosed the reception of an extra terrestrial signal I was expecting to hear gasps or some commotion from his audience. And yet everyone was quiet, as if they heard this stuff frequently.
A light went off and I realized I was listening to a nutbag talking to other nutbags.... and I felt shame. - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19As stupid as that comment was, it seems like that's more or less the equivelant to what probably occured...
He happened to be talking to someone from SETI who said they found a couple signals they thought could be extra terestrial with no confirmations as of yet, but it was frustrating because they couldn't be confirmed because some of their antenas in alternate locations were "being jammed" (i.e. some other radio signal bounces off the ionosphere consistantly covering that patch of sky and spectrum)... If they could only find a signal in one location, they can't prove it isn't coming from earth. That or they have found "extra terrestrial" signals, which only means that radio signals that don't come from earth... But these signals only consist of noise and are probably caused by some astronomical phenominon.
Chances are though, they really have found some sources that COULD POSSIBLY be extraterestrial signals, and really are being "jammed" though probably unintentionally. - arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28@ "the aliens have been downloading Metallica mp3's and the RIAA is now jamming their signal"
No ***** metal-rock for Xenu! OH NOES!! - Calypsoaf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I always considered Folding@Home to be a better allocation of my extra processing power.
- fluffypancake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I'm ready:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Right. Discovering an intelligent lifeform that developed 900,000 years ago AND developed radio technology is really lame. (sarcasm)
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I think they're saying the interference is with the signals, not with the disclosure of the information. It still doesn't make sense why SETI wouldn't just come out and show the information they have to the scientific community and the public at large unless they doubted the authenticity of their findings and wanted to avoid another WOW! signal fiasco. Having two false alarms would really turn the public off of the SETI program and funding might get cut.
We just need more info on this. There's not enough to go on here about the nature of the "contact" or the "interference". - Dantetheinferno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17If aliens do exist, i wonder what they'd think of all the crap (Radio waves, Television waves, WiFI, etc.) we broadcast out into space?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14SETI is trying to detect artificial signals in the background radio noise, not communicate with ET. If they detect an artificial source then they may attempt to decode it.
- Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15And by movies, you mean Contact and The Arrival?
- bdrydyk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13In other news, science has proven that people who repeatedly say things like "there is no intelligent life on earth" are much less clever than they think they are.
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Steven, this is your mother. I want you to stop watching X Files reruns and take up origami or knitting or something, mkay. Hugs and kisses.
- MajinZero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14They're upset that the broadcast of Single Female Lawyer cut out.
- Calypsoaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14This is great, unfortunatly until there is proof from SETI itself, this will be treated (and should be treated) as nothing more hearsay.
- TortfeasorTO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13What utter, unadulterated, unmitigated ***** this is. Not that it wouldn't be terrific if true. But what utter nonsense.
- jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17They probably think its gibberish since they don't know how to decode it.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"wifi? in space? I'm 2 stories above my router and I can't even get a decent signal!"
Their freaken aliens man....I'm sure they have some sort of giant ass pringles can-tenna... - wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Except that time, it was SETI stating that there was a strange reading from a telescope, and that there is a very small chance that it could be an alien radio signal.
This time, it's a bunch of conspiracy nuts, including a man who states he can communicate with alien space ships, stating that they found alien signals and the government is trying to hush them up. - neom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Isn't Steven Greer the same man that said KFC secretly put mind control devices in our chicken?
- Mysk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Unfortunately this guy is full of it. He began making these claims on Coast To Coast AM, who then had the SETI folks on the show to confirm or deny these claims. They denied them and were very confused about the claims.
Last I read SETI is damn near broke, as in they may have to shut down SETI@Home some time early 2007. They would love nothing more than for this to be true because then the donations would be rolling in. Heck, even something like the "wow signal" would be good for them at this point, let alone knowledge of actual contact.
This is no different than me saying that I _KNOW_ that Digg is going to sell to Yahoo because some "high level person" at Digg has told me so, but he can't get the message out on his own and I can't tell you who it is. It's BS.
I would love for this to be true just as SETI would very much like for it to be true. It just ain't happening. :-/ - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Erm... For the record, at least before we invaded, Iraq was a first world country...
- gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15"The US government can't even win a war in a 3rd world country - what makes anyone think they're even remotely capable of blocking signals from extraterrestrials...?"
Well its not a war the government is trying to win. They are trying to force a certain very western mindset on people and the people are naturally resisting. The problem is that they are ironically trying to do that in a relatively nice manner and with combat troops. They will never succeed. Blocking signals... not as tough for the government. I'll believe this theory when they can prove it. -
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