Jerry_B said:I agree with Timble - if SETI had found such signals, I'm sure an announcement would have been made. This sort of thing simply sounds like more gumph from Greer, none of which ever seems to be based on any hard evidence. Claims about the NRO or NSA jamming such sugnals also aren't backed by any proof. It's difficult to take all of this seriously.
Philo_T said:Ok, examining just one facet of that story.
If the NSA or the NRO or the Deros for that matter were jamming any signals, wouldn't that stand out like a beacon? I mean, it may block the external signal, but it would lead to questioins about what is being blocked. It seems like this should be easily verifiable by any ham radio enthusiast.
Does the NSA or NRO even do such things with terrestrial signals ?!
jimv1 said:Philo_T said:Ok, examining just one facet of that story.
If the NSA or the NRO or the Deros for that matter were jamming any signals, wouldn't that stand out like a beacon? I mean, it may block the external signal, but it would lead to questioins about what is being blocked. It seems like this should be easily verifiable by any ham radio enthusiast.
Does the NSA or NRO even do such things with terrestrial signals ?!
I'm not sure radio hammery comes into it.
Wasn't the point of Seti to scan the heavens and download the data to the multitude of PCs on standby and collate the information later?
jimv1 said:.... Daleks are NOT 'much loved TV characters'.
But, if they ever invade New york, or Washington, instead of London, then fully expect the President to declare a 'War On Space'.OldTimeRadio said:jimv1 said:.... Daleks are NOT 'much loved TV characters'.
Ah, but they ARE over here.
Of course that may be because the ex-ter-min-ating little salt shakers tended to land over there and NOT over here.
According to Dr. Steven Greer, yes, SETI has received multiple extraterrestrial signals. This news he says, is confirmed by senior employees within the SETI program.
Perhaps you could expand on this statement, which you made on the Velikovsky thread:almond13 said:The last SETI scare was the famous WOW Signal and the one before that was turned into the Pulsar Theory. Not really good value for money and listening to hissing for decades is likely to cause tinitus.
almond13 said:This is why SETI is a waste of time as radio signals are too slow for interstellar. Tesla used his scalar technology to achieve this. Try Keelynet there are some real scientists there and I’m sure that someone will have an interstellar communicator.
almond13 said:I’m not really up to date on Greer, but didn’t he have 400 witnesses?
Jerry_B said:almond13 said:I’m not really up to date on Greer, but didn’t he have 400 witnesses?
Alleged witnesses...
I've asked if you would mind expanding on this particular nugget over on the Contact! thread.
graylien said:But would the discovery of some kind of primitive bacteria floating around on the moons of Jupiter really be that important after all?
Analis said:There is at least one type of "life" based on silicon: Artificial Intelligence.
furby2006 said:Look at it this way - it is pretty much accepted by the normal man on the street that life exists elsewhere in the universe, when presented with the facts. And remember, this man on the street has also had the idea of primitive life possibly existing or once existing on Mars to contend with for the last few years. And it hasn't changed life on earth one little bit.
This may be true, but there is no accounting for the reaction of the public when such opinions are given official sanction.
It is always interesting to see how the public will ignore or trivialise issues, only to become irrationally outspoken when such issues are officially acknowledged.
Of course, when you look at the usual explanation for public hysteria, the blame/explanation can be (and usually is) laid at the doorstep of the church.
As far as I can see, most religious types would take the news of ET encounters in their stride: probably finding some kind of self-deluding explanation in scripture to suggest that 'God' new about it all of the time. The rest of the religious nuts will no doubt claim that such ET contact is fake and the result of a government conspiracy.
lemonpie3 said:Aliens. Interesting. Anyway who's up for eviction off Big Brother this week? And HOW THIN is Victoria Beckham??? OMG have you seen Keira Knightly in that dress?????
furby2006 said:....the discovery of possible fossilized life on a rock from mars WAS officially sanctioned. And what it got greeted with was a flurry in vague interest, then people forgot about it.
Much as it would be hard to imagine the world of today without the microchip, ET technology would have a major impact on our daily lives.
almond13 said:Much as it would be hard to imagine the world of today without the microchip, ET technology would have a major impact on our daily lives.
We already have alien technology, what about the Dyson?
lemonpie3 said:Aliens. Interesting. Anyway who's up for eviction off Big Brother this week? And HOW THIN is Victoria Beckham??? OMG have you seen Keira Knightly in that dress?????