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What I witnessed in 1952 in Cleveland, Well, in 1952 I was 14 years old. Is that "quite young?" Do I detect a bit of friendly sarcasm in that comment? I have no reason in the world to have "phonied up" my description of the event I experienced in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952. It is true, believe it or not. :) Oh gosh? Boys crawled up the side of buildings to get a football back? Yoiks? Surely you jest, kind Sir? I would rather play with my dolly than a football. :) A football is a funny shaped thing that can't even roll like a ball should. The latter is a current day "technical observation." :) River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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Can You think of any other explanation for what you perceived on that day (Night?) that might explain the event in concrete, terrestrial terms ? Was there a heavy cloud cover when you had this sighting ? |
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Can You think of any other explanation for what you perceived on that day (Night?) that might explain the event in concrete, terrestrial terms ? That day, in 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio, at White City Beach, on the shores of Lake Erie, was a bright, very warm, and very sunny day, in the summer, and just past noon. No, I was NOT imagining anything, nor were the many many others along that long pier. Sorry, the memory of that disc shaped craft is clear and bright in my memory. I can think of no other explanation for what actually happened. There is none. Fact is fact, like it or not; believe it or not. I am puzzled tho by the fact there was no sound that we could hear; but then, it was about 600 yards away. I'm also puzzled by the "hovering" above the bath house? Why would it do THAT? The fact there was no "breaking of the sound barrier" sound when it accelerated means nothing. It just slowed down before it got to that speed. Believe what you want, what happened was REAL. River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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Let's assume that some significant portion of sightings are, indeed, alien spacecraft. What are they doing? They don't care if we see them, obviously. But just as obviously, they don't want to talk to us. And if we include alien abductions and cattle mutations in this class of the "real thing", then we can't assume they're entirely benign or friendly. If they wanted to simply observe us, they could do that much more covertly. So again....What are they doing? They act like they're driving through a slum with the windows rolled up and the doors locked, taking a tour of the bad part of town. It really doesn't make much sense. But of course, the thing about aliens is that they're alien. So who knows? “Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.†|
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Reply to Chris S: The notion of stones falling from the sky (Meteories) was once disbelieved, and even ridiculed, by science. This, despite many eyewitness accounts of this occurring. It was held that such things were impossible, according to the laws of physics. Maybe we should learn something from history. |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Reply to Sparrow45: The elusive demonstration of their presence could be part of a very prudent plan, on the part of advanced extraterrestrials. Swooping in and revealing themselves all at once could prove very disruptive, and demoralizing to human beings. A gradual revealing of their existence would allow time for us to grow used to the idea that we are not the only, or the most technically advanced form of intelligent life on the scene. It seems quite obvious to me that there are many humans who still reflexively fear others, even of their own species. How much more, then, would they fear the sudden advent of beings greatly different from themselves in appearance, and possessing superior technical powers? |
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Let's assume that some significant portion of sightings are, indeed, alien spacecraft. What are they doing? They don't care if we see them, obviously. But just as obviously, they don't want to talk to us. And if we include alien abductions and cattle mutations in this class of the "real thing", then we can't assume they're entirely benign or friendly. If they wanted to simply observe us, they could do that much more covertly. So again....What are they doing? They act like they're driving through a slum with the windows rolled up and the doors locked, taking a tour of the bad part of town. It really doesn't make much sense. But of course, the thing about aliens is that they're alien. So who knows? "They act like they're driving through a slum with the windows rolled up and the doors locked, taking a tour of the bad part of town." Oh my gosh! What a good way to put it! You are SO right. :) I never thought of it like that. The "alien abductions" and "cattle mutilations" don't seem out of line. They are just trying to find out more about us. Looking back now, to the time period between 1945 and the 1950's, when testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs was rampant by the USA and Russia, I really think THIS is what attracted them to visit us in numbers? Maybe aliens regard the ability to create nuclear weapons to be "the birth of intelligence," for better or for worse, and had to learn more about us? However, there have been numerous reports of alien visitation thru-out history, just not a continuous "stream" that occurred between 1945 and the 1950's. Some of these visitations appear to have influenced some religions as the aliens were thought of as "gods" riding "chariots" in the sky. Thank you for your thoughts on this! :) River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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Is it possible you could "sum up" your thought in a short paragraph? I got a bit confused half way down. Thank you for the interesting links! :) River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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Reply to Sparrow45: Perhaps this could be the case. We certainly know how awful the consequences of contact between disparate cultures can be just within our own species. Our attitudes about ET have changed over the last century or so. Some of us are actively looking for contact. The notion of alien life has become pandemic in popular culture. I doubt there's one person in 100, in the developed world at least, who would outright disregard the possibility of extraterrestrial life. If ET is doing a "gradual reveal" then my advice would be to pick up the pace a little. Overt contact and providing some information isn't the same as opening the flood gates to galactic culture. They could at least explain themselves. In fact, I'd say respect demands that much. Just driving through the neighborhood and staring out the car windows is pretty demeaning. “Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.†|
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On the topic of UFO behavior, there's a short story titled "Those Eyes" by David Brin. The whole thing can be read here: http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/thoseeyes.html The central idea is that UFOs are actually manifestations of the fey....faeries. They've been driven from earth by our (human's) lack of belief and technology, and now reside on the moon. The UFO activity is just their way of carrying on with doing what they've always done. Do I actually believe this? Of course not. But it's at least a coherent explanation for UFO behavior. “Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.†|
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Perhaps the concept of "subspace" is a way that spacefaring aliens communicate with each other. Assuming that in subspace communication over vast distances is virtually instantaneous all you need is a portal between normal space and subspace. It worked in Babylon 5 that way, Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
On the topic of UFO behavior, there's a short story titled "Those Eyes" by David Brin. The whole thing can be read here: http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/thoseeyes.html Could be the other way around. An extraterrestrial presence distorted and re-interpreted by humans into faery folk, and the like. Some of the alleged behaviors of both are quite similar. |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Reply to Sparrow45: Visiting extraterrestrials will presumably have accumulated experience in contacting other species. I strongly suspect they would have a sounder idea of when they should openly present themselves to us, than would naive humans. Perhaps the delay in open contact has more to do with our resurgent nativism at the moment; fear and loathing of the 'other', than with a supposed unwillingingness to show us due respect. |
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MEAT - A conversation overheard on sub-space radio, Channel 2845A "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars." "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat." "Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage." "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?" "Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside." "Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through." "No brain?" "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!" "So... what does the thinking?" "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat." "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Living meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?" "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat." "Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years." "So what does the meat have in mind?" "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual." "We're supposed to talk to meat?" "That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing." "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?" "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat." "I thought you just told me they used radio." "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat." "Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?" "Officially or unofficially?" "Both." "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multi-beings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing." "I was hoping you would say that." "It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?" "I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?" "Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact." "So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe." "That's it." "Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?" "They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them." "A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream." "And we can mark this sector unoccupied." "Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?" "Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again." "They always come around." "And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone." Stay here on Earth. It's the only planet with DARK CHOCOLATE !! River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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... I have to say that I am very sceptical about flying saucers. If they were as prolific as people suggest some time in the last 100 years one would have crashed somewhere (not Roswell!!) and been reverse engineered making mankind a lot further advanced than we are now. I'm trying to imagine how far engineers and physicists from 1900 would get if they tried to reverse-engineer an iPhone or a laptop computer. Not very far, I think. To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, you can't build a railroad until it's time to railroad. You need the materials science and manufacturing infrastructure, not just knowledge of the tech. (And FWIW, no, I don't think the Roswell incident was a UFO crash, but it's fun to believe that!) And I agree that probes and crude dissections in the field aren't the way to study any sort of biology. Never mind the possibility of earning a lot of ill will from your subjects. “Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.†|
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I already suggested that Bob! Message 1839568 OK, I see now that you touched on the idea briefly. Sometimes it is hard in a thread like this one that has become full of off topic chatter and ramblings that have nothing to do with the original subject. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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Meat--I love it! :) “Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.†|
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Meat--I love it! :) I'm glad you enjoyed "Meat." I've no idea where I found it. I came across it a long time ago, maybe in a galaxy far far away? :) I wish I could say I wrote it, but I didn't. Have a nice day! Stay here on Earth. It's the only planet with DARK CHOCOLATE !! River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
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A "Corollary" on SETI versus "Flying Saucers" COROLLARY: 1 : a proposition inferred immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof. 2 a : something that naturally follows : result b : something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels. ========================================= Recently, within the past week or two, I recounted an event and posted it to this group. It described, in detail, how I and hundreds of others witnessed a "flying saucer." This occurred in broad daylight, in the summer of 1952, at White City Beach, on the shores of Lake Erie, in Cleveland, Ohio. While I was not met with outright derision, uproarious laughter, or accused of making the post from a padded room in an asylum, my reporting was greeted with, what I could best describe as "the sound of one hand clapping." Because of the silence from my peers, I posted above the definition of a COROLLARY. I would like those who may question my sanity to, in turn, question their own? My premise is this: Based on what is said above, i.e, the following, a : something that naturally follows : result b : something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels. I have to presume, i.e., make the assumption, that all of you participate in the SETI program because you believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial life? Else, WHY are you here, and why does your PC labor 24/7 hoping to hear an intelligent signal from deep space? Given that you are a true SETI supporter, it then naturally follows that, by believing in the possibility of extraterrestrial life, that you MUST then believe in the possibility that there ARE extraterrestrial civilizations "out there?" Furthermore, given the above two suppositions, you must also be aware that our planet Earth is roughly one-half the age of the known universe? This then means there could be extraterrestrial civilizations "out there" MUCH older than ours? Maybe even billions of years older? Why is it SO impossible to doubt the possibility of "flying saucers" and that they have visited Earth in years past? Perhaps the derision comes from the use of the phrase "flying saucers?" This phrase is unfortunate in that it sounds almost "comic-like." Perhaps, way back, if the phrase "unknown spacecraft," "disc shaped flying objects," or some such, had been used in place of "flying saucers," it would have engendered less disdain? Naturally, it is VERY likely that the great majority of reported sightings of these "disks" were not real, and that they were indeed "weather balloons," "cloud formations," etc. The large number of false sightings created a huge number of non-believers, who laughed, as did people further back who laughed at being told the Earth was not flat. But, it is quite reasonable, IMHO, that at least 1% of the sightings were REAL. Because of the very large number of phony sightings, it's easy to understand why many laugh at the thought of "flying saucers." But, the 1% of unidentifieds are most likely those reported by military and commercial airline pilots. These pilots certainly can tell a "weather balloon" from a flying disk under intelligent control? Another point raised by many non-believers is that "they make no sound and therefore they can't exist." Consider the following: Our spacecraft, including the ones that went to the moon, Mars, and beyond, are all powered by liquid fuels. Do you REALLY think aliens, flying ships reported to be from 50 to 100 feet in diameter, have room to carry "million gallon fuel tanks?" Of course not. Mankind, if it doesn't blow itself up in an atomic war, will NEVER reach the stars in ships requiring gigantic liquid fuel tanks. Because the flying disks, small in size, and not likely originating in our solar system, they have to come from another star, and their propulsion systems have to be something that doesn't shoot "streams of hot gas" out of a tailpipe! They HAVE to use something different. It most likely is some form of "anti-gravity," "magnetism," or some such, something NOT involving a liquid fuel; this type propulsion system would be quiet and fit the descriptions given by many. They also have had to discover HOW to either exceed the speed of light AND/OR pass thru a "worm hole." I hope this 'dissertation,' or 'cathartic endeavor,' promotes constructive criticism and thought provoking comments and ideas in return? :) It will be my pleasure Stay here on Earth. It's the only planet with DARK CHOCOLATE !! River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth) "Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO" |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of UFO sightings can not identified after scrutiny and analysis. This is not to say that insufficient data was available to identify them, if they were conventional objects or phenomena. The data for the persistently unidentifiable objects was found to be at least as complete as for those that could be identified. Sonic booms are typically caused by shockwaves, created by airfoils (wings) of aircraft exceeding the speed of sound. If an object rises in the air by other means than aerodynamic lift, there would be no necessity for wings. The shape of a non-aerodynamic flying machine could be such that it creates no shock waves, or only such minor ones as to escape our notice. |
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