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Message 1697301 - Posted: 1 Jul 2015, 11:53:26 UTC

IF an alien intelligence wanted to leave us a message, but only to be detected after we had reached a certain level of advancement wouldn't objects like these found on Ceres and Pluto be an ideal way to do so? Neither could be spotted from earth, even with the most powerful telescopes, and yet stand out like a sore thumb once approached either by probes or manned missions.

I do rather doubt these things are something other than natural phenomena but just maybe something else is going on.
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Message 1697386 - Posted: 1 Jul 2015, 16:58:43 UTC - in response to Message 1697354.  

Sorry Bob, I think you are thinking obelisks from 2001 Odyssey .....

Something like that. I am 99% sure that nothing like that exists and I know the difference between science fiction and science fact. But the possibility, no matter how small, does exist.
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Message 1697446 - Posted: 1 Jul 2015, 20:44:43 UTC

May find out it is a dead comet and the bright spots are the last of its ice.
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Message 1697625 - Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 6:01:48 UTC

I believe spots are from a heat source below them. It looks like a hot reactor vessel on the left and some heat exchanger pipes on the right. Science fiction?
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Message 1697662 - Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 8:19:23 UTC - in response to Message 1697625.  

I believe spots are from a heat source below them. It looks like a hot reactor vessel on the left and some heat exchanger pipes on the right. Science fiction?
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this?
http://starwarsthegalacticcommands.wikia.com/wiki/Asteroid_Base
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Message 1697672 - Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 9:14:54 UTC - in response to Message 1697667.  

Can we all calm down folks, the claims and speculations are getting wilder every day ......

we r calm...just JOKING around!
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Message 1697884 - Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 21:51:54 UTC - in response to Message 1697783.  

I am left with the decision to stop posting here until further notice.
See I told all of you it would work if we worked together :)
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Message 1697886 - Posted: 2 Jul 2015, 21:59:43 UTC - in response to Message 1697783.  
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Ok, we have a science forum here, presumably intended to be for serious comment, but with two threads about Pluto and Ceres, where it seems that all people want to do is joke around.

As the Moderators seem not to be interested in upholding some sort of dignified dialogue here, I am left with the decision to stop posting here until further notice. Perhaps when weather temperatures return to normality so will certain people.

Aww comon Chris, until enough data is gathered to make an educated guess as to the nature of the phenomena seen first on Ceres and now new unexpected features on Pluto, making wild guesses as to their nature is just a way to relieve tension.
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Message 1698042 - Posted: 3 Jul 2015, 6:55:37 UTC

It is only a problem of pattern recognition. See K.S.Fu "Statistical pattern recognition".
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Message 1699248 - Posted: 7 Jul 2015, 8:47:45 UTC
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Also Dawn has suffered a hiccup, like New Horizons, and is in a holding orbit.New Horizons has as CPUs a radiation hardened version of the MIPSR3000 CPU, a RISC processor, that I have used in the Nineties while working in Trieste Area Science Park. New Horizons has two independent computer units, one dedicated to navigation and one for scientific work, each with its own backup. So it has 4 CPUs.
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Message 1699254 - Posted: 7 Jul 2015, 9:24:10 UTC - in response to Message 1698042.  
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See K.S.Fu "Statistical pattern recognition".


We have just received a letter from Purdue
It comes from the learned Doctor Fu
If systems discrete and adaptive are your mete,
Then send us your papers for review
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Message 1699259 - Posted: 7 Jul 2015, 10:28:52 UTC - in response to Message 1699254.  

The dr,Fu I was referring to has died from a heart attack while attending a conference.
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Message 1699273 - Posted: 7 Jul 2015, 13:03:36 UTC - in response to Message 1699259.  
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Yes it is the same Doctor Fu--he was at Purdue University-I had two siblings who graduated from there. I used to travel to West Lafayette for the Illinois-Purdue football games where the loser had to push an Old Oaken Bucket between the two schools a distance of 91 miles as a traveling trophy. I suspect that the pushing part was mostly folklore.

We studied Dr Fu's work 50 years ago at the Army's Electronics Command when we were looking at uses for "Artificial Intelligence" style technology. We studied the Avian retina in which the processing is done in the eye--as opposed to the human where most of the processing is done in the brain.

Birds have motion detectors, edge detectors and bug detectors built into their eyes.
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Message 1704188 - Posted: 23 Jul 2015, 6:23:45 UTC

Dawn is going to a lower orbit. We shall have more images.
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Message 1705681 - Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 17:58:28 UTC - in response to Message 1704188.  

Interesting.

Strange Bright Spots on Ceres Create Mini-Atmosphere on Dwarf Planet

The investigation into the dwarf planet Ceres' mysterious bright spots has taken an intriguing new twist.

The famous bright spots at the bottom of Ceres' Occator crater appear to be sublimating material into space, creating a localized atmosphere within the walls of the 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) hole in the ground, new observations by NASA's Dawn spacecraft suggest.

http://www.space.com/30054-dwarf-planet-ceres-bright-spots-atmosphere.html
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Message 1705703 - Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 19:17:25 UTC

Is someone terraforming Ceres? ;)
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Message 1705821 - Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 1:42:02 UTC
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I vote for ice, nothing more (sorry, folks).
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Message 1705823 - Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 1:44:56 UTC - in response to Message 1705821.  

I vote for ice, nothing more (sorry, folks).

What kind of ice?
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Message 1705943 - Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 12:58:14 UTC

Maybe, if it is water ice, Ceres could support a mining colony or even a vacation destination. But it's even further away than Mars so it would be a long trip.
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Message 1708480 - Posted: 4 Aug 2015, 12:35:38 UTC - in response to Message 1705823.  

I vote for ice, nothing more (sorry, folks).

What kind of ice?

the kind that SUBLIMATES to Vacuum.. ;)


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