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[badeskov]

Lilly, on 08 December 2011 - 03:59 AM, said:

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

[General Kenobi]

Hmmm. Why do I have the feeling that the US government isn't telling us everything...

[bison]

General Kenobi, on 08 December 2011 - 12:37 PM, said:

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 by bison, 08 December 2011 - 03:01 PM.

[mcrom901]

bison, on 08 December 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

'... 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...

[BowieMom]

Great...now we'll have someone 600 light years away saying "Can you hear me now?"

[bison]

BowieMom, on 08 December 2011 - 04:44 PM, said:

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.

[bison]

mcrom901, on 08 December 2011 - 03:08 PM, said:

what about the protocols...

  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 by bison, 08 December 2011 - 06:28 PM.

[ynotnoty]

how old is this habitable planet?

[BrandOfAmber]

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...

[itsnotoutthere]

A blatent misuse of the word 'habitable' there.

[DBunker]

BrandOfAmber, on 08 December 2011 - 06:57 PM, said:

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...

Id take a skeptical scientist looking for ET any day, than some snakeoil salesman like Stanton Friedman.

If Seth Shostak screams ET chances are that we actually might have something.

[bison]

ynotnoty, on 08 December 2011 - 06:40 PM, said:

how old is this habitable planet?

Based on the apparent age of the star, they're saying that it is probably somewhat older than Earth. Plenty of time for life, even intelligent life to have evolved, assuming it got started there. The fact that they're calling it 'habitable' does not mean that it would be ideal for human beings. Our world probably wouldn't seem very suitable to beings from a planet with half our surface gravity, either.

[Lilly]

DBunker, on 08 December 2011 - 08:17 PM, said:

...If Seth Shostak screams ET chances are that we actually might have something.

Oh yeah, if Seth Shostak starts yelling "ET" I'm most certainly listening.

[DONTEATUS]

BowieMom, on 08 December 2011 - 04:44 PM, said:

Great...now we'll have someone 600 light years away saying "Can you hear me now?"

Too Good for School BowieMom ! and welcome to the greatest forum on earth, so far ! Were trying to get the ISS to hook up !
Enjoy the fourms great peeps !
I just finished putting up thousands of lights ,Well its time to be merry !
Welcome again justDONTEATUS !

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[Future_Ikann]

It would be great if we learn for a fact we are not alone. But if we pick up signals it may be bad. A person is smart and can understand what it would mean, but people as a whole are dumb and the only thing it would mean in real life is even more BS religions popping up. i would also bet looting and more violence would occure with the excuse that the governments knew for years and hid it. Even if they truly didnt.  And i really do mean IF the governments didn't know. I personally have faith life exists all over the universe, but have no faith in people as a whole being able to handle proof.