Lucifer Baphomet

No.. I'm not on the Rag Cindy.. LOL

It just wasnt the reaction I expected to the post.. and I wan't sure if you were dismissing it or what, that's all.

That page, from the big ear observatory itself has some fascinating stuff on it, and its well worth the read.

And I know you do like to look at evidence objectively.

Obviously this has nothing to do with ET's coming here, but its relevant to the wider debate on life in the universe ans SETI

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Cindy Claveau

So how do we use unknown technologies to search? We use radio waves because - well, because the UNIVERSE uses them. Radio waves are all over the universe, and our radios and TVs are only emulating them.

Sure, another life form may use different methods we don't know about yet, but there's a very good chance that somewhere along their road to sentience they discovered radio waves. So if they want to send out a message to us either they're smart and use radiowaves, the language of the universe (oh wait, sorry, that's math), or they're not real serious about finding us.

I say we need to feel wanted here, don't you?

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Cindy Claveau

No, and I'm sorry I gave that impression. When I read the phrase "WoW signal", the first thing that popped in my head was that someone was afraid their World of Warcraft game was going out into space. So that made me feel silly.

Agreed. I used to participate in SETI@home, but after I got rid of my last computer I didn't rejoin. I always thought it was an amazing project and very worthwhile.

Any of you who are serious about supporting the search for extraterrestrial life should look at that link - you download and install a free program that uses your home computer in a distributed network to analyze their data. It's painless, and only wakes up when you're not using the machine.

Lucifer Baphomet

Likewise regarding SETI@home

Fade Languish

Awesome, thank you, downloading the software now.

Brenda Connolly

I used to run seti@home on my old computer, but never installed it on the one I have now. maybe I'll take another look at it. The only thing is I don't leave my computer on when not using it, so it takes a long time to complete work units.

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Tya

i smell a I know Your Out There group coming..

Trout Recreant

I think it's the latter. They advanced beyond our wildest dreams and mastered interstellar travel, and it turns out that they're just a bunch of dicks. Just complete assholes. They aren't even laughing. They're just jerking us around because they can.

Where's Randy Quaid from Independence Day when we need him?

Brenda Connolly

We can barely manage Interstate travel......

Hey Trout, did you know there was an alternate ending to ID4?
He strapped a Nuke to the BiPlane and flew it into the mothership.

Mukatsuku

I love the way they dare to say "we lose some believability due to him flying next to F-16s"
Because uploading the virus was believable?
Because ramming a nuke into a ship would detonate it - how has he primed the warhead? Nukes don't explode on impact, for maximum destruction they explode in the air.

gargh, that film was a pile of wank

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Brenda Connolly

It wasn't meant to be a Carl Sagan documentary. It was just a good popcorn movies. I love it. It was hugely entertaining

Joshua Nightshade

Do you hyperventilate at every episode of Doctor Who too, or do you employ this thing called "suspension of belief" and worry about actually enjoying what you're watching?

Brenda Connolly

Let's keep some fiction in Science Fiction.

Joshua Nightshade

Actually you seem to be the one having difficulty checking there first.

Ten

I think the big question people should be asking recently is why the US government is working so hard on freeing up the air waves we are already using. The "everyone goes wired" TV switch, HD radio, etc etc.

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Richie Waves

its in my top 5 most woeful film's ever made..

hehe, when the alien grabs yer man and starts talking through him, just as a shitty way of getting the story accross I fucked popcorn at the screen, plenty others did too!

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Mukatsuku

Doctor Who doesn't try destroying my brain cells with just random plot points thrown into a pile of utter crap. It is pretty much one of the least intelligent movies ever made.
All the hype for it was about the computer graphics, which should have warned me what it was going to be about.

All the stupid "monument" destroying laser beams from the spaceships, to alien spaceships that interface with macs. They didn't even try to make an excuse for any of it.
I suspend disbelief in most movies, but when one is screaming ”everything you're watching is fake" all through the film, it gets really difficult to keep that disbelief suspended.

The first half of the movie was ok, but after the destruction, it turned into a 3 yr old's comedy show. Sesame Street is more believable.

Mukatsuku

Lol
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Independence Day tops 'cheesy' list

Colette Meiji

So where does Richard Dreyfuss, the pile of dirt and the fancy Simon board come in?

Joshua Nightshade

Are you kidding me? The psuedo-science in Doctor Who is astounding. Total rubbish, completely ridiculous, as scientific as Independence Day by far.

But that's irrelevant. I don't go to a summer blockbuster to be enlightened on string theory, I go to be entertained. If you want to pay to complain afterward I suppose that's entertainment too, but I get more enjoyment my way.

So?

Io Zeno

Um, Joshua.

That was one of the stupidest movies ever, ok? I wasn't entertaining to me, it was annoying.

Fave moment: Huge, terrifying Alien craft is hovering over LA in the morning to everyone's horror but mom makes her son go to school anyway, dammit. Plus she goes to work cause you know, she has bills to pay.

I mean, come on.

Joshua Nightshade

I liked it.

My point was you shouldn't go to a blockbuster to bitch about the implementation of science.

That's stupider than the plot of the movie.

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Io Zeno

It depends on the person and their knowledge of the subject.

My mom can't watch most anything about medicine or set in hospitals without having serious disruption of her suspension of disbelief due to it being, to her, laughably incorrect.

I'm the same way about historical dramas.

I'll bet if some movie was set in an internet company and was loose with the facts and heavy on fantasy you wouldn't be able to stand it, either.

But that movie was dumb, period.

Joshua Nightshade

The fuck is that thing?