Alien computer viruses?

The article was extremely interesting (almost as much as this thread) but of course is speculation as, not having made CONTACT, we have no facts as to what any ET is interested in or capable of. But speculation is great in that it gets us to think and look in different directions. Of course the speculation was clearly based on facts we do have here on Earth. But what about that contest that was recently advertised on TV about ordinary people being allowed to broadcast their own messages into space? Could that be like putting a target on our heads?

From what I read on an Italian newspaper, this messaging from Arecibo in the direction of the source of the Wov! signal is sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
Are they looking for subscribers?
Tullio

1: Viruses are made for defective products which were deliberately designed to fail,

Sorry, I can't agree with this premise at all. Viruses are nothing more than computer programs that are designed to cause havok on the system for which the virus was written (it is for this reason that the possibility of saving mankind by giving the alien mothership a "cold" a la Independence Day is completely laughable without hundreds of scientists studying the CPU and OS architecture of the target system).

All systems designed by imperfect beings have imperfections in their design. It is up to a good code writer to find those flaws and take advantage of them in code written as a virus. This can happen to any system - not just products that are "deliberately designed to fail".

2: Besides, we spend money to run this software on our computer in electricity costs, and we don't benefit from it in any way as the people who use our computers hold the discoveries in patent to themselves, to be locked away until they see the best financially viable opportunity to release the technology or decide to educate us.

Not true. There are guidelines in place to give credit to all participants who make the discovery. No one is going to patent any discoveries. By the way, Men In Black was just a fictional movie.

3: Or that any SETI discovery be censored from public eyes with the deliberately implanted idea that it is dangerous or harmful. hmm.. I am sure you guys can continue from where I left off as I am sure you know where I am going with this one.

Straw man argument. Who is going to do the shielding? And how long can they keep the facade up? How many people would need to be involved to keep it a secret? The more people that know the secret, the larger the chance that the secret comes out. Very high probability that it won't happen that way at all, but I do note that it is interesting how many people think this way.

I apologize, but I must respectfully disagree with your statement, "I never claimed that the government doesn't hide things from the public, only that something as large as alien visitations would never go unnoticed."

Although not alien visitations, I do have first hand knowledge that the United States government has -successfully- hidden certain technological advances from the public for over sixty (yes, -sixty-) years. The nature of this technology would certainly spark some thought-provoking discussions, to say the least.

Unfortunately, I am unable to say more for several reasons, not the least of which is that I do not wish to end up in a worse situation than Julian Assange.

I read in a blog at www.setiquest.org that radio and TV signals are too weak to be detected by aliens living within the Galaxy. Only Arecibo has enough power to be detectable in the galacttic center zone.
Tullio

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I read in a blog at www.setiquest.org that radio and TV signals are too weak to be detected by aliens living within the Galaxy. Only Arecibo has enough power to be detectable in the galacttic center zone.
Tullio

In March 2012 NASA said Voyager was 119.9 AU out from the sun. That is only about 0.0019 light years, or 0.047 % of the way to the nearest star (4 light years). Since radio energy follows a distance squared rule, the Voyager signal arriving at Earth is about (1/0.047%) squared, or 4.4 million times stronger than the signal arriving at the nearest star. And it takes some very large antennas to pick up the signal at earth.

Tulio was talking about distance to the Galactic Core (27,000 light years, give or take). So, the Voyager is only -

.000007 %

of the way to the core. The Voyager signal arriving at earth today is 202,800,000,000,000 times stronger than the signal that will arrive at the core in about 27,000 years. (Roughly).

Its a big old Galaxy out there.
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One thing we should be able to notice from our knowledge of recent historical facts are that some things seem to be out of proportions when it comes to both time as well as size.

We all know that Adolf Hitler had to abandon or relinquish his plans for the conquest of the United Kingdom, because in the end, the battle for Britain was won in the air by means of the Spitfire.

The Battle of Britain, if I am not wrong, took place about 1940 or so.

According to Wikipedia, this battle occurred in the summer and autumn of that year.

At the same time, we also know that the Wright brothers were first successfully able to fly a plane in the summer of 1903.

That is a time span of slightly less than 40 years, more exactly 37 years.

If for some reason Adolf Hitler was able to "hijack" the ideas of the Wright brothers for the development of planes, possibly history went a little further some 5 years later with the transfer of eminent German scientists who were supposed to be "renegades" or refugeees (I really do not find the correct word for this, even with a quite big dictionary in front of me - any suggestions welcome).

Meaning with this that in the shadow of war, what may seem like a scientific exhchange program may constantly be happening and being in progress all the time.

Rockets, of course are not the same as planes and the ideas behind the invention and development of the helicopter is an even more complex story than the invention of the plane.

The end story behind it all is that something happened which may not be totally explained by known events alone.

My guess is that at least the time factor was involved. We may also speculate whether aliens or alien technology were behind some of these events as they happened.

Since we have been discussing the capabilities and limitations of technology, both human and alien, I thought I'd pass this along.

Yesterday evening (July 6) I had a nice conversation with a young scientist from Beijing earning his doctorate in the United States. He and a group of his associates have recently published their success in creating a tunable and sizeable, stable, single atomic layer of graphene.

Translation: They have developed a workable transistor that is only -one atom thick-!!!

As many of you probably already realize, this achievement will most likely be comparable to the invention of the transistor to replace tubes!

Combine this with the work these talented young geniuses are also doing on applied quantum mechanics, and they most likely have opened the door on most of the futuristic technology man has always dreamed of in Star Trek, Star Wars, and other similar Science Fiction.

Anyone who is interested can check out their publication at http://www.nature.com/am/journal/v4/n2/full/am201210a.html.

If they haven't already heard about this, I suspect David, Dan, Eric and the rest of the SETI team will love to read it.

Imagine the possibilities!

I'm more worried to...
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Everlasting light bulbs were invented in the 1940's but suppressed because too many US firms would go bust. There are many more similar examples.

I've just got an alert from ET Antivirus 2013 telling me my system is infected. They only want fifty klaygaars for a twenty leeptoo licence, sounds like a bargain :)

You have been looking for how many years? And you post this kind of story? Well thank god I did not go to college. My high school education says your nuts for responding to questions like this. Way to stupid for me. I understand your trying to hook a number of computers to run this search but you really have to explain it truthfully. You have to Tell them we have Norton AV and it checks all incoming packages of info. Except the info is coming from 300 light years away. Just a minor problem right?