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This is our Voyager 1 spacecraft out at 106 times the distance to the Sun from Earth! We pick up the signal clear as day. We know what the signal looks like and it is a simple, straight-forward signal but nonetheless, 106 times further than the Sun is a LONG way to sense something!

We do have hope in this endeavor!

I used to use the SETI At Home program as a screen saver on my old desktop, but now with my laptops, I don't use them.
In fact I forgot about it.

S&F

I disagree with the statement that the Earth is not the center of the universe. If I hop in my rocket ship and fly in any direction, the distance I need to travel to get to the edge of the universe will always be the same. There's no short or long way to the leading edge of the universe. As a result, we're essentially pretty much right smack dab in the center, and have been ever since the universe started and began expanding.

Originally posted by Thermo Klein

All of the concerted SETI efforts over the last 40-some years are equivalent to scooping a single glass of water from the oceans, and no one would decide that the ocean was without fish on the basis of one glass of water.

Maybe. But I sure wouldn't want to drink it, because I sure could tell from that single glass that the ocean was in fact full of living things, and even though there were no fish in it, I could probably easily find traces of fish poop. With SETI though, all we've come up with so far is a perfectly clear, sterile glass of water and no indication that if we keep dipping our glass we'll come up with anything different.

When people say to me they don't believe in Aliens and we're the only 'intelligent life' anywhere, I always think, 'Have you REALLY thought what you're saying?'.

Billions of galaxies. In those billions of galaxies you've got billions of stars. Around those stars you've got trillions of planets...

How can people seriously thinking we're not alone?!

So much life out there.

Anyone that thinks otherwise must be aware that deep down they are only kidding themselves. Surely.

As far as we have come technologically in such a small space of time is quite amazing. It all just seems so primitive still in the whole scheme of things. I wish I was born just a few hundred years further down the track, but then again, I'm not sure if we are capable of sustaining such increasingly high levels of technological advancement without it back firing on us.

I have a feeling contact is just round the corner. I dont think that we are going to find it ourselves, not in the next few hundred years anyway. Instead I believe it will personally come to us landing right on our doorstep. I find it hard to believe that numerous intelligent ET species out there don't already know of our presence especially with all of the billions of broadcast signals from TV and Radio that are continuously being pumped into space and have been doing so at an ever increasing rate for well over half a century. As far as I am aware these signals never die and are endlessly reaching out into the farthest depths of space.

Originally posted by TrueInstinct
Billions of galaxies. In those billions of galaxies you've got billions of stars. Around those stars you've got trillions of planets... How can people seriously thinking we're not alone?!

Okay. Billions of galaxies and stars and planets. Life crawling around everywhere. You can't swing a dead cat in space without hitting all kinds of life. Everywhere.

And we haven't found it. And it hasn't found us. Because...
It's hiding under a rock somewhere. It's far away. It's whatever.

People can seriously think we're not alone, because at this point in time we have found exactly NOBODY ELSE and apparently NOBODY ELSE has obviously found us.

And you can go visit and talk to all the hypothetical, statistical aliens you want, but until you actually find one, that's all they are. Hypothetical. Statistical.

Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Based on flatness measurements we can say if it's spherical, the sphere must be huge. Michio Kaku thinks it's probably spherical.

I figure it's a multi-dimensional toroid. Like a donut, but instead of a hole in the middle, it all collapses back in on itself in time. So you fly "outward," away from Earth in any direction, and the rest of the universe is always going to be the same distance away. It's a paradox that puts us right in the center. Where did the Big Bang happen? Right where you're sitting. Because at the beginning of the universe, everything was in one spot. Right here.