RE: [Nolug] E-T sending messages

> to travel faster than light you need
> infinite mass, but once you pass that point of discontinuity you can
> travel faster than light.......

I've always been fascinated with all this kind of stuff, but to the common man, all this says is
that it is impossible....although I am sure Scott Backula (er, his Quantum Leap counterpart) could
figure it out.

The aliens watching us must sit back and laugh, "..ha, look the pond scum are trying to do math
again"...

Brett

--- Carlos <carlos@cancansystems.com> wrote:
> Supposedly you can travel from one point to another point in space by
> "folding it" (much like you would fold a piece of paper to draw a point
> on both extremes without lifting the pen), or by using "cosmic strings"
> as modern relativity theory now postulates. This would beat traveling
> at the speed of light. Moreover, to travel faster than light you need
> infinite mass, but once you pass that point of discontinuity you can
> travel faster than light.......
>
> "Through science, man can only aspire to glimpse God's infinity and
> greatness"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> Behalf Of Carlos
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:19 AM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] E-T sending messages
>
> Do you think aliens would like to mess with our troublesome species,
> after all they are far more advanced and know better. Primitive,
> backwards species should be left to their own luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> Behalf Of Pietu
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:31 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: 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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