RE: [Nolug] E-T sending messages

Heh...

Here's your proof.

I admit, I am an Alien.

At least that is what INS claims about me.
I even have a valid Alien Registration card as a proof.

P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Brett D. Estrade
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:09 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] E-T sending messages
>
>
> They're already here ;)
>
> In all seriousness, I though RF signial propagated out
> spherically from a central point, if so
> wouldn't we actually be recieving a little bit of all the signals
> send from the hemisphere of the
> source planet that was facing us? I could be wrong.. I hated
> that part of physics in school.
>
> Brett
>
>
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > You are absolutely right. I was intellectually lazy, since there are
> > so many billions and billions of stars, and thus the likelyhood of life
> > being out there is a virtual certainty.
> >
> > However, the distances are so great, and RF still only travels at a
> > fixed speed, and, compared to the vastness of space, there aren't that
> > many stars. Thus, any message round trip (send, interpret, decide
> > response, respond) would take many, many decades. Also, how do the
> > aliens decide which direction(s) around the sphere to send the codes?
> > Also again, even if you send RF messages to each 1/100th of second of
> > degree, after a few hundred billion miles, there will be large gaps
> > between each RF beam. ((This is presuming that the codes are sent
> > out in beams instead of broadcast, to ensure energy concentration.)
> > Then, since a light-year is 5.87 bn miles, and that beam may have to
> > go 10 or 20 (or much more!) light-years before reaching Sol's neighbor-
> > hood, the gaps between each (now *extremely* faint) beam are enormous.
> >
> > Thus, IMHO, I don't think that even the wealthiest worlds would do such
> > a thing.
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:53, bad-magic-number wrote:
> > > On the date of 12/18/2002 12:08:25 PM , Ron Johnson
> <ron.l.johnson@cox.
> > > net> spoke:
> > > >Instead of searching cosmic static for non-existant aliens,
> the rc5-72
> > > >project from http://www.distributed.net uses the same concept (hence
> > > >the name) to use brute force to do mathematical-type things.
> > >
> > > That's a bit presumptuous... Live undeniably exists outside
> our Solar
> > > System based on mathematical probability... To say something only
> > > happened in one place in a universe this size would be pure folly.
> > >
> > > And it may very well be intelligent, but:
> > >
> > > 1. We might not find it since we can only see a sliver of the sky at
> > > Arecibo... 2. We may not know what to look for since the maybe very
> > > well be more advanced than us. We are cosmic infants as Homo Sapiens
> > > are a young species.
> > >
> > > And of course life outside our Solar System might very well not be as
> > > intelligent as us...
> > >
> > > Its a big universe and ludicrous to think we are singular and
> "special"
> > > in a cosmic sense.....
> >
> > --
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> > | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net |
> > | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson |
> > | |
> > | "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, |
> > | you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." |
> > | Socrates |
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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