mcrom901 Posted December 7, 2011 #1 Share Posted December 7, 2011 The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that it is back in business checking out the new habitable exoplanets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to see if they might be home to alien civilisations.The cash needed to restart SETI's efforts has come in part from the US Air Force Space Command, who are interested in using the organisation's detection instruments for "space situational awareness".Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted December 7, 2011 #2 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Ah, U.S. Starfleet Command- I mean Space Command is now funding SETI, is it. Well, I'm sure that'll reassure the Aliens that we have a purely peaceful interest in establishing contact with our extraterrestrial friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBunker Posted December 7, 2011 #3 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Come on SETI, COME ON!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted December 7, 2011 #4 Share Posted December 7, 2011 What if we find aliens but they are no more advanced then sheep? Should we still spend trillions of $'s to send probes to capture some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted December 7, 2011 #5 Share Posted December 7, 2011 What if we find aliens but they are no more advanced then sheep? Should we still spend trillions of $'s to send probes to capture some? Well, somebody keeps messing with our cows...seems fair enough to me! *that was a joke* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted December 8, 2011 #6 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Well, somebody keeps messing with our cows...seems fair enough to me! *that was a joke* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted December 8, 2011 #7 Share Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) We now have a space command concerned with "space situational awareness" ? Awesome! Seems a step up. I wonder how one gets a job there? I do like The Register. Edited December 8, 2011 by psyche101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONTEATUS Posted December 8, 2011 #8 Share Posted December 8, 2011 We could Eat-em ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Silver Thong Posted December 8, 2011 #9 Share Posted December 8, 2011 What if we find aliens but they are no more advanced then sheep? Should we still spend trillions of $'s to send probes to capture some? Beats spending trillions on wars, failed private business and greedy corrupt politicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badeskov Posted December 8, 2011 #10 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Beats spending trillions on wars, failed private business and greedy corrupt politicians. Isn't it also about time that we go and mutilate some alien cows? As long as we are absolutely sure that they aren't the dominant species, incredibly intelligent and sitting on a huge war chest full of advanced weapons of rather destructive character - that would be a bummer Cheers, Badeskov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Silver Thong Posted December 8, 2011 #11 Share Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) Isn't it also about time that we go and mutilate some alien cows? As long as we are absolutely sure that they aren't the dominant species, incredibly intelligent and sitting on a huge war chest full of advanced weapons of rather destructive character - that would be a bummer Cheers, Badeskov Sounds pretty risky, what if they have alien mad cow desease and money. I`m sure some could buy there out of anything and they start to mingel with the likes of Rosie Odoniel (sp) and Donald trump. That would be the end of mankind forsure Edited December 8, 2011 by The Silver Thong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badeskov Posted December 8, 2011 #12 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Sounds pretty risky, what if they have alien mad cow desease and money. I`m sure some could buy there out of anything and they start to mingel with the likes of Rosie Odoniel (sp) and Donald trump. That would be the end of mankind forsure OK, that was a rather horrible scenario you just managed to depict there. Cheers, Badeskov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted December 8, 2011 #13 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Just so they don't 'mingle' the genetics of Rosie O'Donell and Donald Trump. There's a hybrid lifeform capable of destroying the Earth for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Silver Thong Posted December 8, 2011 #14 Share Posted December 8, 2011 OK, that was a rather horrible scenario you just managed to depict there. Cheers, Badeskov Best weapon we have to deter these beings is to broadcast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW5xPOTlSMc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badeskov Posted December 8, 2011 #15 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Best weapon we have to deter these beings is to broadcast. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gW5xPOTlSMc Hahaha..good point. I guess we need to start cranking the transmit power up and really start pouring some energy into space Cheers, Badeskov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badeskov Posted December 8, 2011 #16 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Just so they don't 'mingle' the genetics of Rosie O'Donell and Donald Trump. There's a hybrid lifeform capable of destroying the Earth for sure! Uh oh...now, that is a scenario I dare not contemplate...I mean, the hair alone Cheers, Badeskov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted December 8, 2011 #17 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Hmmm. Why do I have the feeling that the US government isn't telling us everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted December 8, 2011 #18 Share Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) Hmmm. Why do I have the feeling that the US government isn't telling us everything... '... that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that' - - quoting Slartibartfast ***** It would be ironic, though, if the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, as a partially Air Force-sponsored facility, got proof of extraterrestrials Edited December 8, 2011 by bison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrom901 Posted December 8, 2011 Author #19 Share Posted December 8, 2011 '... that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that' - - quoting Slartibartfast ***** It would be ironic, though, if the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, as a partially Air Force-sponsored facility, got proof of extraterrestrials what about the protocols... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDwP4FUuohY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieMom Posted December 8, 2011 #20 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Great...now we'll have someone 600 light years away saying "Can you hear me now?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted December 8, 2011 #21 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Great...now we'll have someone 600 light years away saying "Can you hear me now?" Then they'll have to wait 1200 years ( two way trip at light speed) before they hear "yes.", assuming we can hear them! A tediously slow conversation. Welcome to the forum, BowieMom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted December 8, 2011 #22 Share Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) what about the protocols... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDwP4FUuohY The protocols, which Dr. Kaku never got around to explaining, do *not* say that news of the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial radio signals should be concealed. They *do* say that, in common with other scientific discoveries, it should be thoroughly and repeatedly confirmed by independent observers, and then released to the general public. I generally find a good deal of merit in what Dr. Kaku has to say. Here, I feel, he is being overly pessimistic about our ability to adapt to such news. He also seems to overestimate the likelihood of such information being suppressed, in this age of instant and highly ramified communications. Recent SETI 'near misses', where they thought for a time that they might have detected ET signals, have managed to leak out to the public quite quickly, quicker than even the scientists would have wished. Edited December 8, 2011 by bison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynotnoty Posted December 8, 2011 #23 Share Posted December 8, 2011 how old is this habitable planet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandOfAmber Posted December 8, 2011 #24 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Finally Shostak grows a brain. The problem though is that Shostak is still in charge, though. Can we perhaps see a researcher who is actually interested in extraterrestrial life in charge of SETI pretty please Sagan Institute? Shostak is out for glory. It's clear from his repeated statements that UFOs are not alien craft, and that detection of ET can ONLY come from SETI. Ignoring events like the Battle of LA are a huge red flag when one is claiming to be interested in such data... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsnotoutthere Posted December 8, 2011 #25 Share Posted December 8, 2011 A blatent misuse of the word 'habitable' there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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