The first radio signal ever hasn't gone that far yet. (Anyone care to calculate where our emission front currently is at? First transmission by radiowaves was around 1895 So it could take a while before we get detected, if at all. :o)
Sonja "M. Malmkvist" wrote: > Good point. > Besides this little planet probably attracts attention otherwise too. Unlike > most rock planets, this one constantly emits energy over most of the > wave-spectre (or whatever you Americans call it...). Plus, it's not just > random signals - they actually seem to have some sort of pattern. Surely > highly developed civilisations or species, capable of travelling between > stars or maybe even galaxies must know how to produce and read radio > waves... > > Med venlig hilsen / Yours sincerely > M. Malmkvist / WWW.PowerCad.dk > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]P� vegne > af Michael Harney > Sendt: 28. juni 2002 07:26 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: Would Aliens Visit? > > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_shostak_visit_020627.html > > > > Would Aliens Visit? > > > > By Seth Shostak > > Senior Astronomer, Project Phoenix > > posted: 07:00 am ET > > 27 June 2002 > > > > > > When it comes to alien activities, visiting Earth seems to be pretty high > > on the "to do" list. But does that make sense? > > An interesting editorial, but it fails to take into account certain other > possiblilities... > > I am not a true believer in aliens having visited our planet, and am > sceptical of comments that the Nasca drawings or pyramids have an > out-of-worldly reason, but I acknoledge the posibility that aliens may have > visited our planet. > > Why is it not so unthinkable that aliens might have visited? Let's consider > that Aliens may have an interest in life bearing planets. Not unthinkable > at all considering anywhere you find life on this planet, you are bound to > find human researchers studying that life. Would aliens go out of their way > to do this? Why not, reasearchers that study animals in antarctica go out > of their way to study those. Moreover, researchers that study life at the > bottom of the ocean go out of their way to create technology just to study > the life there. Let's assume that their only interest is in surveying new > species on the planet and observing the planet's evolution, with absolutely > no interest in learning about the behavior of individual species. In order > to get a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the planet they would > have to visit about every 5000 years. Now let's say that the aliens notice > the egyptian pyramids in one of those surveys. That would be bound to catch > their interest, and they may have decided to watch humans more closely since > first seing the evolution of technology, society, and language of Humans > (which, to get an acurate picture of that, aliens would have to visit at > least once every 50 years). > > If aliens do visit here, that would seem the most likely reason. > > <joking> > That would also explain all those abductees that were implanted with > microchips and anally probed. If these aliens are the nature show hosts and > animal researchers of their planets, they would be interested in what the > animals eat (which an anal probe could reveal), and would also want to tag > individuals that they have studied before for long term research. I > wouldn't want to have a run-in with the Steve Irwin of their planet though. > Maybe they have their own "Human Hunter" show where an alien and his wife > track down humans only in corn fields because "These guys are real > dangerous, you never want to get to close to densly populated areas of these > fellas, 'cause if you do... Twack! They'll knock your ship down with their > combustion propelled projectiles, grab you, drag you to their nests, and rip > you apart with sharpened bits of metal." > </joking> > > Michael Harney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We do not inherit the Earth from our parents; we borrow it from our > children. - Native American Phylosophy
