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WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??
mahesh2k:
Guardian == FOX ?
x16wda:
What makes us think that any intelligent lifeforms out there somewhere are friendly?-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)
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I always did enjoy the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Manw.
;D
-4wd (June 13, 2013, 11:22 PM)
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Yeah, enjoyed the remake too:
Tinman57:
It has always bothered me that we have massive radio telescopes (SETI), that for years has sent out messages into the cosmos
-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)
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I was under the impression that radio telescopes received rather than emitted and that the SETI program searched for signals -tsaint (June 13, 2013, 09:18 PM)
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Realized Interstellar Radio Message projects - In 1974, a largely symbolic attempt was made at the Arecibo Observatory to send a message to other worlds. It was sent towards the globular star cluster M13, which is 25,000 light years from Earth. The first Interstellar Radio Message (IRM), the "Arecibo Message", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Message was transmitted in November 1974 from Arecibo Radar Telescope. Further IRMs Cosmic Call, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call Teen Age Message, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Age_Message Cosmic Call 2, and A Message From Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_From_Earth were transmitted in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2008 from Evpatoria Planetary Radar.
Additional information on messages sent outward from Earth at: Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence Active SETI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI List of interstellar radio messages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_radio_messages
Paper projects - A large number of paper projects also exist. For example, directed by Douglas Vakoch at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, the Interstellar Message Composition Project is charged with designing messages that could presumably be sent to extraterrestrials that convey basic scientific or mathematical principles, as well as human altruism. Vackoch's idea is to send a message of reciprocal altruism because hopefully any extraterrestrials would reciprocate with a reply back.
Vakoch has founded "Encoding Altruism", a workshop that started in 2003 in Paris that brings together anthropologists, philosophers, physicists, astronomers, theologians, musicians, and artists to address the challenge of communicating with extraterrestrials in a language and syntax that would be intelligible to an alien civilization. Vakoch's most recent research is highlighted through the Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley.
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And then there were the satellites we launched with all of Earths info and messages from everyone from scientist to presidents, and the new optical (laser) signals we're now sending....
tsaint:
It has always bothered me that we have massive radio telescopes (SETI), that for years has sent out messages
-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)
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"The science known as SETI deals with searching for messages from aliens. METI (aka "active-SETI) science deals with the creation of messages to aliens. Thus, SETI and METI proponents have quite different perspectives."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI
tomos:
late reaction to op:
But is it a serious news site?
- it's not from the Manchester Guardian in case anyone thinks it is...
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