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SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 11:08 AM

www.theregister.co.uk said:

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".

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 03:55 PM

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.

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 06:38 PM

Come on SETI, COME ON!!  :lol:
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Posted 07 December 2011 - 09:02 PM

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?
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Posted 07 December 2011 - 09:11 PM

View Postbulveye, on 07 December 2011 - 09:02 PM, said:

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! ;)

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 01:55 AM

View PostLilly, on 07 December 2011 - 09:11 PM, said:

Well, somebody keeps messing with our cows...seems fair enough to me! ;)

*that was a joke*



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Posted 08 December 2011 - 01:57 AM

We now have a space command concerned with "space situational awareness" ?

Awesome! Seems a step up. I wonder how one gets a job there?

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 02:55 AM

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 03:22 AM

View Postbulveye, on 07 December 2011 - 09:02 PM, said:

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?


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Posted 08 December 2011 - 03:37 AM

View PostThe Silver Thong, on 08 December 2011 - 03:22 AM, said:

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 :P  

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 03:44 AM

View Postbadeskov, on 08 December 2011 - 03:37 AM, said:

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 :P  

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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  :alien:

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 03:48 AM

View PostThe Silver Thong, on 08 December 2011 - 03:44 AM, said:

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  :alien:

OK, that was a rather horrible scenario you just managed to depict there. :P

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Posted 08 December 2011 - 03:59 AM

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!
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 04:00 AM

View Postbadeskov, on 08 December 2011 - 03:48 AM, said:

OK, that was a rather horrible scenario you just managed to depict there. :P

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Best weapon we have to deter these beings is to broadcast.



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Posted 08 December 2011 - 04:04 AM

View PostThe Silver Thong, on 08 December 2011 - 04:00 AM, said:

Best weapon we have to deter these beings is to broadcast.




Hahaha..good point. I guess we need to start cranking the transmit power up and really start pouring some energy into space :P

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