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Message 1556520 - Posted: 14 Aug 2014, 3:08:32 UTC - in response to Message 1556511.  

Data suggests our galaxy has 40 billion planets with potential for life

Those in Academia don't need to be polishing unsavory items such as this.

Agreed! And yet the point is made.
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Message 1556534 - Posted: 14 Aug 2014, 3:59:21 UTC
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There seems to be some pre-existing scientific research backing the 40-billion-planet remark by Dr. Shostak. He specified life in general, not intelligent life. See link to article, below:
http://www.dailycal.org/2013/11/07/researchers-predict-billions-habitable-earth-like-planets/
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Message 1574145 - Posted: 19 Sep 2014, 2:39:17 UTC - in response to Message 1556534.  

Is it just me or has some one else noticed that we occupy a VERY small space in the earth's 4.5 billion year history. I don't know how to put this in perspective, but it is a very long perspective if I can. Human civillisation on earth has been theoretically obsrvable for about the last 50 to 100 years. That's 50 to 100 of the last 4.5 billion years. If searching for intelligent life were a lottery the odds of finding it would be long in the extreme. Perhaps a civilization that has been observable for 1,000 years would be found more easily - maybe not. The odds in that case would not be much better. Finding intelligent life is similar to state lotteries in another respect - multiple drawings, or games over time. All planets in our galaxy did not come into existence 4.5 billion years ago, they are probably constantly being formed and destroyed as a natural part of stellar evolution. So this would mean another factor would be how long aliens were 'online' and when. We could miss them by a million or a billion years. I'm sure life is plentiful in the universe, but I think advanced and intelligent life is very rare.
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Message 1579365 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 13:27:45 UTC - in response to Message 935417.  
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Frank Drake, senior scientist at the SETI Institute, responded that no alien civilization appears to be continuously broadcasting a powerful "beacon" signal from a planet circling any of the nearest 1,000 or so Sunlike stars, at least in the frequency bands we've searched. If there were such powerful beacons, they'd have been picked up by Project Phoenix, an ambitious nine-year undertaking that the SETI Institute concluded in March 2004. - /quote]

We should keep this in mind and also this:

he says, the only aliens we're likely to hear are ones intent on deliberately signaling to emerging civilizations like us.


Drake also points out at this conference (2006 time frame) that even 10 megawatt transmissions like radar etc could only be detected a few light years away.

So I (Daddio) will take the liberty of opining to say that "I think that we should try to listen at radar and TV frequencies and also start broadcasting a "We are Here" message to Nearby stars (100 light years or so)
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Message 1659042 - Posted: 29 Mar 2015, 23:22:15 UTC - in response to Message 1608644.  

Scientists At SETI Have Plans To Converse With Aliens

Astronomers have always been curious for knowing whether there is a second planet like Earth where people, aliens as they are specifically termed, live. Let’s just forget significance of their ambitions but embrace this fact that scientists have devoted this semicentury for purpose of listening extra-terrestrial civilizations. All these efforts have led most of them to believe that there is no such thing as an ET.

http://techfrag.com/2015/03/28/scientists-seti-plans-converse-aliens/
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Message 1659049 - Posted: 30 Mar 2015, 0:06:48 UTC - in response to Message 1659042.  

ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.
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Message 1680018 - Posted: 15 May 2015, 15:46:10 UTC - in response to Message 1659049.  
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ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


It is What we send that is most important. It should be a message of peace, showing the good sides of humans, our creativity and our features of caring for and loving other creatures. Most of us have that in us, naturally.
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Message 1680050 - Posted: 15 May 2015, 17:40:25 UTC - in response to Message 1659049.  
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ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


There is no danger ! There are already here and monitor nuclear plants.

it's a secret for nobody but where do they come and how it's possible government stay mute?

For the French check the video of (Institut de recherche sur les expériences extraordinaires) INREES, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1E5mVcIv4U
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Message 1680102 - Posted: 15 May 2015, 20:50:55 UTC - in response to Message 1680018.  

ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


It is What we send that is most important. It should be a message of peace, showing the good sides of humans, our creativity and our features of caring for and loving other creatures. Most of us have that in us, naturally.

I'm afraid that is overly optimistic. All they have to do is sit back and watch and listen at a safe distance and discover the ugly truth about most of the people in charge and how we would likely react if they made themselves known to all.
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Message 1680687 - Posted: 17 May 2015, 6:08:30 UTC - in response to Message 1680102.  

ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


It is What we send that is most important. It should be a message of peace, showing the good sides of humans, our creativity and our features of caring for and loving other creatures. Most of us have that in us, naturally.

I'm afraid that is overly optimistic. All they have to do is sit back and watch and listen at a safe distance and discover the ugly truth about most of the people in charge and how we would likely react if they made themselves known to all.


I strongly believe that's what they're doing already, Bob.
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Message 1680755 - Posted: 17 May 2015, 13:40:07 UTC - in response to Message 1680687.  

ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


It is What we send that is most important. It should be a message of peace, showing the good sides of humans, our creativity and our features of caring for and loving other creatures. Most of us have that in us, naturally.

I'm afraid that is overly optimistic. All they have to do is sit back and watch and listen at a safe distance and discover the ugly truth about most of the people in charge and how we would likely react if they made themselves known to all.


I strongly believe that's what they're doing already, Bob.



I think it's giving these potential ET's too many human-like characteristics to assume that they would be interested in watching and studying us.
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Message 1680944 - Posted: 18 May 2015, 6:39:30 UTC - in response to Message 1680755.  
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ugh. I personally don't believe it is wise to actively attempt to signal ET's. There is a strong danger element present, and with no plan in place if the mission is a success...I just don't know if a 50/50 chance of a friendly ET encounter is a risk we as a civilization should act upon.


It is What we send that is most important. It should be a message of peace, showing the good sides of humans, our creativity and our features of caring for and loving other creatures. Most of us have that in us, naturally.

I'm afraid that is overly optimistic. All they have to do is sit back and watch and listen at a safe distance and discover the ugly truth about most of the people in charge and how we would likely react if they made themselves known to all.


I strongly believe that's what they're doing already, Bob.



I think it's giving these potential ET's too many human-like characteristics to assume that they would be interested in watching and studying us.


I do believe they find us a rather interesting species, Gordon, with lots of potential.
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Message 1691665 - Posted: 15 Jun 2015, 14:54:08 UTC - in response to Message 1691558.  
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I'm afraid that is overly optimistic. All they have to do is sit back and watch and listen at a safe distance and discover the ugly truth about most of the people in charge and how we would likely react if they made themselves known to all.

Exactly Bob. They wouldn't post in Politics either :-)))

(BIG thought....) Blimey, that must mean that they ARE here!!!


Politics??

That would be just the reason why ETI wouldn't have anything to do with us (imo).
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Message 1694013 - Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 17:15:49 UTC - in response to Message 1693850.  

Wow, we haven't found them yet, but some want to marry them already? Now that will be some "science" to study :-)
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Message 1696592 - Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 23:26:33 UTC - in response to Message 1694013.  

SETI's attempt to make contact with other signs of life

Human beings have always wondered if they're alone in the Universe.

In 1960, a young astronomer named Frank Drake decided to find out. He pointed an 85-foot antenna at two distant stars and started listening for signs of life. In that moment, a new discipline was born: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.

The epicenter of this search is the SETI Institute, an unassuming office building in Mountain View, California—the heart of Silicon Valley.

Seth Shostak, director of the Center for SETI Research at the institute, says the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a lonely corner of science. "Worldwide, the total number of people doing this for a job, if you will, is maybe a dozen, maybe fifteen," he says. "Something like that. It's very small, terribly small."

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/83332-setis-attempt-to-make-contact-with-other-signs-of-life-
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Message 1696696 - Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 8:39:37 UTC - in response to Message 1696693.  
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Recently the vLHC@home project reached 2 trillion events (not tasks) done and its chief, dr. Ben Segal thanked us volunteers for it. CERN believes in the distributed volunteer computing paradigm and has other projects running and coming.
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Sorry, events instead of jobs. An event is a proton-proton collision, which may or may not produce other particles. such as the Higgs boson.
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Message 1703142 - Posted: 19 Jul 2015, 20:11:18 UTC

2015/07/18 CNET ARTICLE: "Save the world using your PC or phone"
BOINC, SETI and a few other projects were mentioned in the article.

There seems to be A LOT OF MISINFORMATION / BOGUS postings on CNet's Facebook posting https://www.facebook.com/cnet/posts/10153599739847275 where I originally saw the article link. The usual type of "idiots" are saying how BOINC is used for bot nets and such garbage. Maybe we can get some more BOINC users to "slay" the B.S. by posting FACTUAL INFORMATION.
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Message 1703521 - Posted: 20 Jul 2015, 22:09:27 UTC

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Message 1703537 - Posted: 20 Jul 2015, 22:59:48 UTC - in response to Message 1703521.  

Prof Stephen Hawking backs venture to listen for aliens

Large! All hail Stephen Hawking!
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Message 1703560 - Posted: 21 Jul 2015, 0:07:21 UTC
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S. Hawking said to listen for ET, but make no attempt to let him know we're
here. Look what happened to our cousins -- Neanderthals, CroMagnon , et.al.

There's them, there's us. . .

On the brighter side of things, they probably wouldn't want to expend
resources getting here.
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