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originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
a reply to: zilebeliveunknown
That puts a lot of "what ifs" into the picture, and that's never a good thing.
originally posted by: zilebeliveunknown
a reply to: ZetaRediculian
So how do we distinguish between noise and an intelligent signal from space?
I guess by looking for patterns in the signals.
But there's another problem.. What if those signals were made to look like noise?
And another thing.. interference.. what if I knew all the signals which interfere with original signal? It would be easy for me to decipher.
And what noise are then signals we humans can't fully know what their origins are, well for some noise we do.
unless you are a compulsive hoarder.
Maybe I am
originally posted by: zilebeliveunknown
originally posted by: JadeStar
Other people have already mentioned it but this is just natural stuff. No aliens, no gods.
So I can pick up some scrambled frequency of some TV signals and since there is no meaning in this signal it's safe for me to dicard it?
What is the audio equivalent of pareidolia called? That's what they are experiencing.
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
originally posted by: ZetaRediculian
a reply to: JadeStar
What is the audio equivalent of pareidolia called? That's what they are experiencing.
Pareidolia
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
originally posted by: JadeStar
Other people have already mentioned it but this is just natural stuff. No aliens, no gods.
originally posted by: JadeStar
Natural sources also are broadband in nature.
Artificial signals like the scrambled TV signal you're talking about are extremely narrowband. Nature does not produce signals that are less than a few Hz wide.