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Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by possibly noteworthy at 10:40 pm EDT, Jun 27, 2007 |
It's interesting to see people so worked up over this. Jared Diamond, professor of evolutionary biology and Pulitzer Prize winner, says: "Those astronomers now preparing again to beam radio signals out to hoped-for extraterrestrials are naive, even dangerous."
I've always expressed disdain for SETI@home, but this is even more useless, though perhaps less wasteful: Cosmic Connexion, a firm based near Cape Canaveral in Florida, invites you to e-mail your messages to them and they will then beam them, free, into space and "introduce you to extraterrestrials."
Today MySpace, tomorrow MyUniverse. Just imagine the time sink of approving all those friend requests ... |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by dc0de at 7:03 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2007 |
possibly noteworthy wrote:
It's interesting to see people so worked up over this. Jared Diamond, professor of evolutionary biology and Pulitzer Prize winner, says: "Those astronomers now preparing again to beam radio signals out to hoped-for extraterrestrials are naive, even dangerous."
I've always expressed disdain for SETI@home, but this is even more useless, though perhaps less wasteful: Cosmic Connexion, a firm based near Cape Canaveral in Florida, invites you to e-mail your messages to them and they will then beam them, free, into space and "introduce you to extraterrestrials."
Today MySpace, tomorrow MyUniverse. Just imagine the time sink of approving all those friend requests ...
Kewl!!! I'm sending one... "Hi, My name is Decius, and I am the ruler of the third planet encircling our sun. If you dare, come to our planet, and find me, I will fight hand to hand/tentacle/appendage/leg/eye/antenna and the to the victor go the spoils. If you don't want to come here, then you are weak, useless and should fly into the nearest sun." That's gonna be so cool.... ! |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by Rattle at 3:40 am EDT, Jun 30, 2007 |
"Hi, My name is Decius, and I am the ruler of the third planet encircling our sun. If you dare, come to our planet, and find me, I will fight hand to hand/tentacle/appendage/leg/eye/antenna and the to the victor go the spoils. If you don't want to come here, then you are weak, useless and should fly into the nearest sun."
All hail our fearless leader! You must get through him before you can come for us, in the hills, where we are well fortified. |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by dc0de at 7:56 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2007 |
Rattle wrote: "Hi, My name is Decius, and I am the ruler of the third planet encircling our sun. If you dare, come to our planet, and find me, I will fight hand to hand/tentacle/appendage/leg/eye/antenna and the to the victor go the spoils. If you don't want to come here, then you are weak, useless and should fly into the nearest sun."
All hail our fearless leader! You must get through him before you can come for us, in the hills, where we are well fortified.
Yes, YES! Decius will PROTECT US FROM TEH EVIL SPACE MONSTERS!!! |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by Decius at 7:41 pm EDT, Jul 2, 2007 |
dc0de wrote: Rattle wrote: "Hi, My name is Decius, and I am the ruler of the third planet encircling our sun. If you dare, come to our planet, and find me, I will fight hand to hand/tentacle/appendage/leg/eye/antenna and the to the victor go the spoils. If you don't want to come here, then you are weak, useless and should fly into the nearest sun."
All hail our fearless leader! You must get through him before you can come for us, in the hills, where we are well fortified.
Yes, YES! Decius will PROTECT US FROM TEH EVIL SPACE MONSTERS!!!
Whatever dude. Don't taunt the Aliens. Seriously. |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by Acidus at 12:20 pm EDT, Jul 2, 2007 |
dc0de wrote: possibly noteworthy wrote:
It's interesting to see people so worked up over this. Jared Diamond, professor of evolutionary biology and Pulitzer Prize winner, says: "Those astronomers now preparing again to beam radio signals out to hoped-for extraterrestrials are naive, even dangerous."
I've always expressed disdain for SETI@home, but this is even more useless, though perhaps less wasteful: Cosmic Connexion, a firm based near Cape Canaveral in Florida, invites you to e-mail your messages to them and they will then beam them, free, into space and "introduce you to extraterrestrials."
Today MySpace, tomorrow MyUniverse. Just imagine the time sink of approving all those friend requests ...
Kewl!!! I'm sending one... "Hi, My name is Decius, and I am the ruler of the third planet encircling our sun. If you dare, come to our planet, and find me, I will fight hand to hand/tentacle/appendage/leg/eye/antenna and the to the victor go the spoils. If you don't want to come here, then you are weak, useless and should fly into the nearest sun." That's gonna be so cool.... !
Tom might as well practice. We are counting on him to fight off the aliens at Phreaknic 12. |
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Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by skullaria at 7:24 pm EDT, Jun 28, 2007 |
I believe in the possibility of life out there - but I don't for the life of me know why people think THEY might be so loving - I'd be scared we'd contact them only to be enslaved or.......eaten. |
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RE: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
by Stefanie at 3:13 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2007 |
skullaria wrote:
I believe in the possibility of life out there - but I don't for the life of me know why people think THEY might be so loving - I'd be scared we'd contact them only to be enslaved or.......eaten.
Exactly! Didn't the 1950s teach those SETI types anything?! Decius wrote:
Don't taunt the Aliens. Seriously.
Amen. I learned that the hard way my Junior year in college... not an ordeal I'd care to repeat. |
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