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Waste of time SETI
While I embrace the idea of searching for and hopefully finding ETI, I too believe using radio to do so is a dead end. We might was well be looking for smoke signals. I believe radio is obsolete here and now and we will soon see radio and tv towers be a thing of the past. Certainly there has been a slight resurgence with the advent of digital HDTV broadcasts over the air but this too will soon be supplanted by other delivery methods and save some high-powered radar, ham opperators and point-to-point satellite communications; the Earth will essentially fall silent within the next 25 years. The point is, truly advanced civilizations will be communicating using entanged pairs of sub-atomic particles or some other as yet to be discovered method. They will not be broadcasting in the radio spectrum nor I believe would they go slumming for emerging civilizations of near-savage quality (us) by transmitting responses to any "drum beating or smoke" they might have encountered.
Posted by: chiefcrewdog   Posted on: 05/18/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Maybe I'm not grasping the logic or that's the problem  voska | 05/18/07
From the standpoint of clocks on earth  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/18/07
i may not totally grasp the concept  Voodoo187 | 05/18/07
Waste of time SETI  chiefcrewdog | 05/18/07
Why SETI is like video games  Thought1 | 05/18/07
Another angle.  slopoke | 05/18/07
Kurzweil...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/18/07
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And charged so much nobody knew...  Anton Philidor | 05/18/07
Not quite right  NonZealot | 05/18/07
HelpDesk for a time machine.  Anton Philidor | 05/18/07
Wormholes...  Thought1 | 05/18/07
Before playing with relativity  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/18/07
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I am quoting Kurzweil...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/18/07
If you have wormhole technology...  Thought1 | 05/18/07
Relative like a bad uncle maybe  Robert Crocker | 05/18/07
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That's exactly what Kurzweil talks about  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/19/07
Just don't step into a moving wormhole...  John Le'Brecage | 05/19/07
I was thinking more like Farscape.  Xwindowsjunkie | 06/02/07
Near Light Speed Space Ship is Man's Future  grey_eminence | 05/29/07
Just because the wormhole is established  Xwindowsjunkie | 06/02/07

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