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Hacked stars might broadcast alien signals

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  • 12-09-2008 3:26pm
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    se51
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    If we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, would we necessarily realize it? SETI has long scanned the skies for evidence of alien transmissions, while others have proposed a hunt for physical artifacts sent by our distant neighbors. But neutrino physicists at the University of Hawaii have proposed yet another possibility: that humans have already received an extraterrestrial communication, and that we might find the message in our existing observations of the stars.

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    Read the full article
    http://io9.com/5047775/galactic-internet-could-broadcast-alien-signals

    I find it an interesting proposal actually


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    nyarlothothep
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    forgive my total ignorance but would such a system not take ages to send messages given the speed of light?


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    se51
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    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    forgive my total ignorance but would such a system not take ages to send messages given the speed of light?

    If this was a process that occured some tens or even hundreds of thousands of years ago, then the information will already have travelled the distance to us.


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    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Ok, but it wouldn't really be a good system for communicating in an efficient way, everything would be really slow.

    I guess aliens could state "we're here" and share some technological info...but they would either have evolved or just become extinct in the intervening period.

    I think these neutrino physicists are on the right track though, thinking of possibilities we wouldn't consider, I like this kind of thinking, we have an understandably earth centered view of things, imo the same could apply to our search for life.


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