Possible SETI candidate

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Mike Collins:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Nonsense worthy of "Nostradamus" and Velikovsky.

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Davoud wrote:
Mike Collins:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Nonsense worthy of "Nostradamus" and Velikovsky.




http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal

Low probability but not in comparable with the Velikovsky insanity.

Mike Collins wrote:
Davoud wrote:
Mike Collins:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Nonsense worthy of "Nostradamus" and Velikovsky.




http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal

Low probability but not in comparable with the Velikovsky insanity.


That in shouldn't be there. It's a remnant of poor editing.

Mike Collins:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Davoud:
Nonsense worthy of "Nostradamus" and Velikovsky.

Mike Collins:
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal

Low probability but not comparable with the Velikovsky insanity.

Purely personal: I think the entire SETI scheme is a load of nonsense.
Evidence is ET is probably not out there. If ET is, we probably won't
find him. If we find him it will most likely be by accident. And
finding him would lead to 1) conspiracy theories on what the government
isn't telling us 2) speculation as to whether he is Christian 3) a
trillion-dollar preliminary study on how to make war on him 4) great
frustration as we realize we will never meet him or even talk to him.

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:11:51 -0400, Davoud wrote:

Mike Collins:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Davoud:
Nonsense worthy of "Nostradamus" and Velikovsky.

Mike Collins:
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal

Low probability but not comparable with the Velikovsky insanity.

Purely personal: I think the entire SETI scheme is a load of nonsense.
Evidence is ET is probably not out there. If ET is, we probably won't
find him. If we find him it will most likely be by accident. And
finding him would lead to 1) conspiracy theories on what the government
isn't telling us 2) speculation as to whether he is Christian 3) a
trillion-dollar preliminary study on how to make war on him 4) great
frustration as we realize we will never meet him or even talk to him.

Probably. But it's a low budget search that can lead to important
serendipitous discoveries.

On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 18:11:53 UTC+2, Davoud wrote:

Purely personal: I think the entire SETI scheme is a load of nonsense.
Evidence is ET is probably not out there. If ET is, we probably won't
find him. If we find him it will most likely be by accident. And
finding him would lead to 1) conspiracy theories on what the government
isn't telling us 2) speculation as to whether he is Christian 3) a
trillion-dollar preliminary study on how to make war on him 4) great
frustration as we realize we will never meet him or even talk to him.

A pessimistic but probably reasonable argument.
Interstellar travel assumes the ability to manipulate time.
Our own planet could be peopled by an entirely invisible, advanced race.
Their use of vast amounts of energy would be impossible for us to directly source.
How's that for casting blame for AGW on the [presumed] innocent?
Not to mention introducing another droplet of ultra-pure, toxic paranoia.
For the conspiracy theorists to lather into their itchy scalps! ;-)

Now all we need is somebody to explain the mild steel, featureless, cheese wedges flying lowly and slowly over people's homes! 8(

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:54:43 -0700 (PDT), "Chris.B"
wrote:

Interstellar travel assumes the ability to manipulate time.

No it doesn't. It assumes the ability to operate stably over long
periods of time. Something that would be reasonably expected of a
mature civilization, a long-lived species, or robots.

On Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:24:26 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Never trust Russians. Born liars and cheats. They claimed to have achieved temperatures in a lab on the order of 3 billion degrees. LIE!

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:00:04 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:24:26 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

Never trust Russians. Born liars and cheats. They claimed to have achieved temperatures in a lab on the order of 3 billion degrees. LIE!

Particle physics labs routinely achieve temperatures of billions of
kelvins (in some cases, trillions). Depending on the details of their
claim, there's nothing about 3 billion kelvins that strains belief at
all.