Be nice to get back to discussing SETI "science"

Three out of the top five threads are at best about quasi science. UFO's, aliens building pyramids and etc. It makes me wonder about the people who support the SETI@home project.

The scientific method is all about answering questions, not about the absolute truth. There's nothing other than Occam's razor to contradict many of the ideas being discussed.

70 years ago, plate tectonics was not believed by most geophysicists. 10 years ago most cosmologists believed that the expansion of the universe was decreasing. New measurements any day may disprove old accepted theories and cause seemingly less likely theories to become accepted.

Bob DeWoody,
Interesting topic!

Firstly - I take it from the name of the topic and the tone of your message post that you disapprove of people discussing stuff in the "SETI science" forum that is not "pure SETI science". Bob you should elaborate. I'm pretty open minded.

Secondly - This project says on its front page that its "Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence", thats what SETI is! SETI is trying to find any life other than the life we know here on earth. Well i think chatting about the possibility that Extraterrestrials may have visited earth in our past fits that category very well. And if UFO's are visiting this planet, that also fits the category of "Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".

Thirdly - As Gary Charpentier just said, just connecting your computer to the project is all the project scientists are looking for. The project scientists don't care what people talk about on the forums because they rarely read any messages here. So its up to the participants what they want to discuss and in which forum.

Fourthly - As for supporting the project Bob, your the only one who has posted here so far that does not have a green star.

Fifthly - Bob, your avatar looks like "Taggart", one of the Cops in the Eddy Murphy movie "Beverly Hills Cop". The actors name is John Ashton; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashton_(actor). Just thought i would mention that, its been on my mind. I like Taggart in that movie!

John.
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First time I post on here in a while, I agree with you. I carry my camera also. I live in Miami so being close to the Bermuda triangle is pretty cool. I like the story in Ancient Aliens where he was flying from the Bahamas back to Miami. They entered they strange electric funnel spinning counter clock wise. When he contacted the tower the could not find him on radar. When he did come up he was already in Miami. The flight should of taken him 1 hour and 3 mins and he got to Miami here in 32 mins. More like a worm hole. So I am saying the possibilities of ET visiting is high. There are places here on earth that cant be explained.

We also rely on religious doctrines for details of our origin

If I'm asked to speculate about the past, I consider the total wipeout of the dinosaurs as totally suspicious. To selectively remove a species as established as the dinosaurs were, while others that lived in similar environments survived, I think is very strange. If this were the result of natural catastrophe, nothing would have survived and the entire biological clock would have been totally reset.

I can accept hibernating or subterranean mammals surviving, but not reptiles similar to dinosaurs. And then we have the birds with their shared dinosaur lineage.
Again, and this is totally speculative, it is as if the earth was sanitised to allow mammals to gain an evolutionary lead.

First time I post on here in a while, I agree with you. I carry my camera also. I live in Miami so being close to the Bermuda triangle is pretty cool. I like the story in Ancient Aliens where he was flying from the Bahamas back to Miami. They entered they strange electric funnel spinning counter clock wise. When he contacted the tower the could not find him on radar. When he did come up he was already in Miami. The flight should of taken him 1 hour and 3 mins and he got to Miami here in 32 mins. More like a worm hole. So I am saying the possibilities of ET visiting is high. There are places here on earth that cant be explained.

The Bermuda Triangle continues to fascinate, as does the Dragons Triangle off Japan. For many years they were thought to be areas of unusual magnetism, but a USA survey found nothing unusual. I think we can rule out Atlantis though.

Not unlikely that it was man-made, like the pyramids. But of course, since we see a long, flat top, we automatically associate that with an airplane landing strip, because that's what is most familiar to us. Just like the Egyptian hieroglyphics, that may not be what was intended, but don't let that stop anyone from jumping to conclusions and assuming incorrectly.

Otherwise, I suppose the Cerne Abbas Giant actually exists in that mountain. Maybe he was left there by ancient aliens?

Ozzfan,
I'm glad to see your changing your mind and now your starting to join in the fun. Ozzfan i knew all along you were an Ancient Alien fan at heart!! Its ok Ozzfan if you were just embarrassed to admit it. But now that you have "come out of the closet" so to speak, you can now speak more freely about your fascination with ancient alien theory!! Good to have you on board Ozzfan! [LOL]

Ancient ET,
Some really great quotes from the Bible there!! Thats some really good solid evidence for ancient aliens!! Its undeniable that that thing is an aircraft runway built thousands of years ago. Good work Ancient!

John.
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Nazca has fascinated historians for years. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created in about 450-650 BC by by the Nazca culture, and the hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, llamas, and lizards.

The Cerne Abbas Giant, also referred to as the Rude Man or the Rude Giant, is a hill figure of a giant naked man on a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas, to the north of Dorchester, in Dorset, England.

A 1996 study found that some features of the image have changed over time; notably, the study concluded that the figure originally held a cloak in its left arm and stood over a disembodied head.

The 1996 discoveries strengthened the identification with Hercules, who was often depicted wielding a club and carrying a cloak made from the Nemean Lion. However, since the first descriptions of the figure do not appear until the mid-18th century, many scholars conclude that it is not significantly older than that. Latterly, some think is is a caricature of Cromwell from the 17th Century.

Neither account above has any evidence whatsoever of ET activity upon earth in their creation. But .... this image below is definitely created by ET,

Sorry to spoil the fun folks but it was a publicity stunt ;-))

Homer

Because I don't think a big cornfield would be the right thing to land a complex spaceship in.

Sorry to spoil the fun folks but it was a publicity stunt ;-))

Homer

Filthy lie told by un-believers! I tell you the world did end yesterday!