Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: JTEM Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: New SETI search Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 15:05:42 -0400 Organization: Eek Lines: 95 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <66d76825$0$8230$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <66d8ba09$1$1279$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6sjhdj1db3jlm798g4dsmc17qp60dndvb7@4ax.com> <66d9aae2$2$8230$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Reply-To: jtem01@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="97178"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hzg3pUzIs4XfCGpn4xxWh7z+cxM= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 2D68522986F; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:05:50 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E79C922978C for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:05:47 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.98) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1smHno-0000000227f-18wE; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:05:56 +0200 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EC605F837 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2024 19:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/4EC605F837; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com id D2D0DDC01A9; Thu, 5 Sep 2024 21:05:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:05:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19EOlFVZKE+60P0oSzv3Ko7eLPeaahYjkM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN, FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 6133 Bob Casanova wrote: > Ummm...OK. So? You still didn't answer the question > regarding why you "presumed" Mark to be an American. > > But no matter; you can assume whatever you wish based on > anything ay all, including personal bias. What a raging turd of a narcissist you are! No matter... Andromeda is like 2.5 million light years away, doing the quick Google. At the speed of light, we're talking a 5 million year wait for a return signal. Why? It's pointless. I mean, a civilization is just so advanced it can fart Dyson Spheres, but it's too stupid to figure out how long it would have to wait for the neighboring galaxy to send a reply? And how long does the average species even survive for? Hmm? SETI is full of shit. THAT is the issue here. They've concocted asinine scenarios "to test" when failure is virtually guaranteed. : "there isn't an instrument on Earth that can detect an : Earth-like planet with Earth-like leakage of electromagnetic : radiation." https://www.engadget.com/2017-05-25-listening-to-starlight-our-ongoing-search-for-alien-intelligenc.html Effectively, SETI is only capable of detecting two types of signals, and they are... #1. A signal sent as an intentional effort to communicate with us, or at least let us know where they are. #2. Communication to or from a space craft. By far, and it's not even close here, the most likely signals to reach us are communications to and/or from a space craft. Space craft fly of to space, one presumes, and quite possibly some distance from the home world... or solar system. Anyway, unlike surface communications, communications with a space ship would have to cross vast distances and maintain all integrity.... EXACTLY the type of signal SETI would want to be looking for. But SETI, according to their own protocols, would dismiss such a signal. I mean, unless it's traveling line-of-sight towards earth, it would be moving, and even the tiniest change in angel would send it ridiculously far away from the original point of detection. In other words: It couldn't repeat. The concept is simple enough: Point a laser at the moon strong enough to produce a visible dot. Now, whip that laser around. The result is that dot moving across the surface of the moon FASTER than the speed of light. You're just a mortal being, and in your case not a very good one, but even your humble movements of the laser, here on earth, produce incredible movement on the surface of the moon... That's a directed signal through space, a beam. Thus, in the most likely instance of anyone sending a signal capable of traversing mind-boggling distances of interstellar or intergalactic space (communication with a craft), SETI is incapable of "Confirming" a signal. They just can't. According to their protocols, they don't exist. You can check back at the same coordinates a thousand times and you're just not supposed to see them again... So we're left with these daft scenarios where aliens are constructing intergalactic christmas tree lights, or "Hello, my name is Oggarkich.1.23.Ndsch-blop" signs. -- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5