Colored symbols in the sky above las vegas, page 4

reply to post by Acidtastic

Drawing the symbols in the sand is supposed to lure the symbols to return in the sky??? How about dump that whole idea and try to find out what the symbols mean in the first place. Every symbol has a meaning.. But it can also be different to different people. However language through symbols is a great idea that has been used by NASA in hopes of contacting alien civilizations...And if you can understand what the symbols mean TOGETHER then you will understand the message.

Line drawing of the symbols sent into space on a plaque with Pioneer 10 in 1972.
quest.nasa.gov...

On the plaque a man and woman stand before an outline of the spacecraft. The man's hand is raised in a gesture of good will. The physical makeup of the man and woman were determined from results of a computerized analysis of the average person in our civilization.

The key to translating the plaque lies in understanding the breakdown of the most common element in the universe - hydrogen. This element is illustrated in the left-hand corner of the plaque in schematic form showing the hyperfine transition of neutral atomic hydrogen. Anyone from a scientifically educated civilization having enough knowledge of hydrogen would be able to translate the message. The plaque was designed by Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. Frank Drake and drawn by Linda Salzman Sagan.

more on the Pioneer missions..
www.nasa.gov...

Interestingly, in a NASA SETI program booklet (dated from 1979), it is suggested that signals in the form of "symbols" would be fundamental to communication with other intelligent civlizations..

The main page for this document can be found HERE

And the passage I'm talking about can be found HERE under "[109] INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION ALTERNATIVES"..

Fundamentally, to communicate we must transmit and receive energy or matter or both in a succession of amounts or types of combinations that represent symbols, which either individually or in combination with one another have meaning-that is, can be associated with concepts, objects, or events of the sender's world. In one of the simplest, most basic, types of communication the sender transmits a series of symbols, each selected from one of two types. One symbol can be the presence of a signal, the other can be the absence of a signal, for example. This type of communication is called an asymmetric binary channel. For the receiver to be able to receive the message, or indeed, to detect its existence, the amount of energy or number of particles received when the signal is present must exceed the natural background. Suppose, for example, we knew how to generate copious quantities of neutrinos and to beam them. And suppose we could capture them efficiently in a receiver. Then, with the signal present, our receiver would have to show a statistically significant higher count than with no signal.

NASA's SETI program was cancelled a long time ago.. But it just goes to show that the idea is completely plausible that this is some intelligent civilization trying to communicate..

These days, the main SETI homepage can be found HERE .

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions sent up by NASA a generation ago carried gold plated records with sounds and images from earth on them. Etched on the plates was an interesting series of symbols. You can see that image HERE

These records are talked about on this NASA website HERE in detail.

As far as the OP's experience..
The bigger question I would ask is WHY those symbols, WHY at that location? To understand that the symbols need to be understood.. And since we don't have all the symbols we don't have any way of knowing what they meant. But it is interesting. Hypothetically, that part of the U.S. is lit up like a Christmas tree(at least at night from space) and perhaps this location was chosen because of this.. WHO KNOWS.

I believe the OP really saw something. I have seen a few strange things in my day too.. So I know something real is going on with UFO's... But just because symbols start appearing in the sky doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't have a very normal explanation.

-ChriS

[edit on 28-8-2008 by BlasteR]