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Bid to detect alien TV begins

Postby flipflop » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:58 am

Bid to detect alien TV begins

Wednesday October 25, 06:57 PM



Scientists have claimed that new radio telescopes may be able to pick up TV transmissions from alien civilisations.

Any aliens within 1,000 light years of Earth could be detected by spotting their leaking television signals.

One of the first of the new-generation telescopes is the Low Frequency Array being built in the Netherlands.

It is equipped to receive radio waves emitted by hydrogen molecules in the early universe.

Although these signals originally had short wavelengths, the expanding universe has stretched them over time.

Today they have wavelengths of several metres, which means they fall within the range of TV, radio, and military radar transmissions.

Scientist Dr Abraham Loeb, from Harvard University in the US, said: "By a happy accident, the telescopes will be sensitive to just the kind of radio emission that our civilisation is leaking into space."

If ET is producing similar signals, these will be visible as "spikes" in the radio spectrum, a science magazine reported.

But whether aliens are discovered depends crucially on their stage of development.

To pick up TV or radio signals from an alien civilisation, it would have to be about as advanced as our own.
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Postby el3so » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:24 am

How many of you think that this whole project started off with some teenaged mad mathematician fantasising about seeing hot alien chicks in the nude?
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Postby flipflop » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:46 am

Worse than that would be we discover alien TV, and they're all watching Alien Pop Idol

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Postby Aryan » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:01 pm

What if they are running cable? And how is this any different to SETI@home?
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Postby greepigfoot » Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:27 am

dont we already search for radio waves? what is the point of seti?
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Postby denise » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:05 am

since every earthly culture that i am aware of seems to have had at least one God who is capable of observing and influencing both the individual inhabitants as well as the society itself, i have considered the possiblity that the world is actually one big reality show. and then you die.
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Postby coldharvest » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:07 pm

5 bucks says that when they do find ET television it'll be 500 channels of bullshit and shopping.
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Postby friendlyskies » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:20 pm

i have considered the possiblity that the world is actually one big reality show. and then you die.


I've had the same thought. Especially if there is a God who did all that to Job just for shits and giggles. That or else this is just a game of Sims, and we actually belong to a civilization that was so terrified of death that it chose being too old to have fun over the once inevitable, and to cure our collective bordom we just play this retarded video game over and over and over. "Hey, I saved enough bits of paper to buy a 4WD car I'm too afraid to drive offroad, how many new friends does that make me?"
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Postby Wayne » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:29 pm

Maybe they'll have science shows postulating on the possibility of life elsewhwere in the Universe?
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Postby Jack Shadow » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:39 am

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Postby Monarch » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:28 pm

What if you find a nature channel with a documentary entirely devoted to
your masturbation habits and their scientific explanations for said behavior.
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