Voyager I enters interstellar space!

Good job he didn’t write sh1t next to it then 🙂

WIKI article on the ‘WOW’ signal…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Metric?:confused: They don’t measure – they know.

I bet the ‘aliens’ have all gone metric!

It is an interesting thought that there is a 3/8″ bolt on Voyager that will outlive the Pyramids!

What are the odds that the first question they ask is “Is that AF or Whitworth?”………….

Yes that’s correct but the largest array being constructed in Australia and ready in 2016 is not US funded, as far as I am aware.

I think the array was called S.E.T.I. and funded by the States, but i think they stopped funding it, but it has been “Privatised” now. I could be wrong, but it rings a bell.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Yes, I think that is correct and radio telescopes in Australia and elsewhere have picked up signals from thousands of light years away. The first signals were detected about 40 years ago I think.

Hi All,
What amazes me is that like you say above we transmit for all and sundry, yet the odd thing is we haven’t received anything similar from deep space or at least that is what we have been told :confused: Either that or any signal that has been captured hasn’t been deciphered yet ?

Geoff.

Didn’t the US once have a programme to monitor radios signals from deep space? Think it once briefly picked up a signal way, way stronger than the natural (?) stuff popluarly called the “Wow!” signal or something after a handwritten comment on the read-out. Going to have to Google this when I get time.

Gods might be more appropriate since there is rather a large number whom millions believe in. You might get an answer from some of them but not not from yours truly as they are, as you say, mythical.

There may be Aliens but they would be so far away we will probably not exist by then anyway. I too suspect that we will either destroy ourselves or enough of the planets resources that we couldn’t survive in any great numbers anyway.
So where is god — this mythical creature that people will glad kill others for because only theirs is the correct one.

My thoughts entirely. I have no doubt that a combination of some or all the things you mention in your second paragraph will wipe us out in the next millenia, and certainly well before the planet starts its slow death.

Our place in the cosmos is only little more than an irrelevance.

Very true. I was watching something the other night that made me realise how small the window for finding another (alien) civilisation actually is; with planets measuring their age in billions of years a civilisation has to invent radio (to advertise its position) and then not be destroyed by natural or man-made (or alien-made) disaster before it is discovered by another civilisation. On Earth we invented radio in about 1900 and by about 1960 we had invented the means to kill every human being on the planet at a single stroke; what is more we were devoting a huge amount of our efforts to actually do it!

We haven’t quite given-up trying to wipe each other out yet plus with overpopulation, pandemics, climate-change (maybe) or meteorite-strikes how long has our civilisation got? So far we’ve manage just over a hundred years out of how many billions?

Our sun will eventually go-out (after vaporising the Earth) but there are billions of alien suns that have already gone-out millions and millions of years ago; how many of these supported alien civilisations for the briefest moment in their existence?

All we could end-up doing (with a VLA radio-telescope) is watching the TV broadcasts of an alien civilisation that was extinguished a billion years ago!

CD – it might well have been but whatever it was it was certainly science friction. Perhaps it is difficult for us to remove ourselves from our innate anthropomorphic default thinking and perceive worlds quite outside anything bearing the remotest similarities to our primitive life here on earth.

It is an interesting thought that there is a 3/8″ bolt on Voyager that will outlive the Pyramids!

They are going to be peed off then, when they have to come back and re-build them then, are they not?. 😀

Jim.
Lincoln .7

I thought the whole science-fiction theme of ‘aliens taking our women’ was actually a response to multi-racial America in the early part of the last century…

…it wasn’t ‘aliens’ taking their white women that they really feared!

As for aliens coming to Earth, or attacking Earth, I think that belongs in the realm of science-fiction (and our innermost fears); I cannot think of anything that it would be worth travelling the vast distances to conquer…

…unless it is our women???

Indeed so! But taking your second flippant thought, if they have the technology to get here I would think they would have moved a long way on from primitive simple male/female sex/procreation. And probably males and females per se.

And they built the great Pyramids…

It is an interesting thought that there is a 3/8″ bolt on Voyager that will outlive the Pyramids!

It is an interesting thought that the Earth has been broadcasting radio / TV signals into space for decades and that some alien civilisation will pick them up.

I remember reading, years ago, about a project to build a ‘very large array’ (VLA) of one hundred identical radio-telescopes all linked together to effectively have one gigantic receiver; at the time it was said that that would allow us to ‘watch alien TV’! It was such an incredible project I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t done immediately but now it seems it is to be done (in South Africa) but I wonder if that old prediction about the ‘alien TV’ has now changed?

As for aliens coming to Earth, or attacking Earth, I think that belongs in the realm of science-fiction (and our innermost fears); I cannot think of anything that it would be worth travelling the vast distances to conquer…

…unless it is our women???

It would be a bit like launching D-Day to conquer an anthill.

Before or after they buried the Spitfires?