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Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Something to consider blocula. If Earth has been visited before and IS in fact overSEEn by ? Then its possible their? overseeing techs know who else is in the local vicinity. With this knowledge 1 would think the overSEEers who can SEE ALL who have been here before CURRENT human technological advancement knew or know that the human techs would broadcast - radio - tv- cell - ect off Earth and may have placed absorbers of these waves close to Earth to prevent detection. Now wether they placed absorbers for saftey or to keep this outpost hidden from "help" is another question. 1 wouldnt think it would be too hard to design a receiver antenna powerfull enough to catch all waves exiting Earth realm to keep EGENDA HERE SILENT UNTIL RIGHT TIME...
With that I am basically saying they probably already knew or know of Earths humanS developing.
Originally posted by doubleperfectprater
So was that a joke about the view from the cockpit of a spaceship?
I feel like Ive missed or misread an undertone in your post..
also the girl is cute, but looks human as far as I can tell.. scrutiny over?
Originally posted by blocula
The longer we keep beaming radio waves and television signals out into space,in all directions,the greater the chance that more and more alien civilizations will discover us and know where we are by tracing our signals back to their original source...You and i
Originally posted by blocula
I hope the image we see of her, what she appears to look like, isn't just a holographically projected veneer.
that the aliens show us because they know it's what we want to see...
When her true visage might be one of those mantis like alien beings
Originally posted by Blue Shift
I just can't imagine how distorted and degraded a radio signal might be after traveling only a tiny relative distance in space. In addition to the power decrease due to the inverse square rule, we're also talking about the signal distorting in time, as well, as it's pulled and pushed and garbled by gravity and acceleration. Even if we managed to snag a radio signal from space, we would be extremely hard pressed to tell exactly where it even came from. The originating planet would have long since moved (as we have) since it was first broadcast, and the signal twisted randomly as it traveled through space. It wouldn't take much to distort a signal so much it would be indistinguishable from noise, even if it wasn't. For instance, fax sounds are full of information, but they sound like noise. Add in all kinds of frequency shifts, and it really would be just noise.
That being said, if we ever get to a point where we can track and de-obfuscate such signals, I wonder if it might be possible for us to detect radio signals sent by us in our own future back to us listening now? After all, a strong enough signal, blasted close to a black hole or something, might be able to bend its way back into the past so we could detect it. The added advantage of looking for signals broadcast from our own future is that we already know we exist, and we're familiar with the technology and language. We can come up with a standardized protocol code for the digital reconstruction of the transmissions (something based on pi, perhaps). We'll also know where we physically are in the universe at any given time in the future, so we can focus our attention in that area.
Personally, however, I don't think humanity will survive long enough for us to come up with a coherent plan to beam information back into our own past and give ourselves a "heads up." And we might think better of it, even if we could. Interesting notion, though.
What have we done?...Without properly thinking about the possible negative consequences of our actions.We have been sending out into space,in all directions,Radio and Television waves,which are the same thing,for over 100 years.These signals travel at the speed of light and the closest star to earth,Proxima Centauri,is only 4.2 light years away...
Any advanced alien civilization surely would be able to detect and decipher these signals and waves,realize that they are of intelligent design and trace them back to their source...You and I...
Originally posted by blocula
There is nothing concrete proving alien's existed in the past,present, or in other dimensions. Most claims are by new age dribble, misinterpreted documents and artifacts, CGI, hoaxes, grainy film and false claims of bodies and technology recovered
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Nothing?...
Over 150.000 UFO sightings have been documented in the last 60 years and recorded in various databases,but the total number of UFO sightings is estimated to be in the millions.
There are several thousand sightings reported each year,yet surveys show that only a small percentage of those who see a UFO actually report it.For fear of being ridiculed by a society that lives in denial about whats really going on around them...
So obviously,like it or not,deny it or not,they have found us, thanx to our mind numbing and dehumanizing electronic inventions...
There were over 1,000 reported ufo sightings in august,2011 alone...www.ufoevolution.com...edit on 24-10-2011 by blocula because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SuperSmartGuy
Also you are right, radio waves are a very unstable means of communication. They are only useful to communicate with a very close vicinity in space, but out of that they become increasingly useless. Thus we have to assume they use a different manner of communication than radio waves.
Originally posted by blocula
What have we done?...Without properly thinking about the possible negative consequences of our actions.We have been sending out into space,in all directions,Radio and Television waves,which are the same thing,for over 100 years.These signals travel at the speed of light and the closest star to earth,Proxima Centauri,is only 4.2 light years away...
I hear what your saying...if i was an alien i'd be trying to decipher those "late night" programs on cable...then i would never leave my planet, i would never leave my levitating domed sphere house... (*_*)
Originally posted by Advantage
I hope and must believe you are wrong. I know what Id think of I were an alien race deciphering Oprah, The View, Independence Day, and most of the crap music thats beamed out there. Blech.. id think we were a complete world idiocracy and invade.
Originally posted by nineix
reply to post by Argyll
... or, they, if there is a they, are far more advanced than us, and smarter by having other methods of communication that don't broadcast their positions.