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First develop a good bull**** filter by going he
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/evp.html And do not waste any more time or money promoting this variety of nonsense. Besides, it is way off-topic. Matthew Ota Bob Cruise wrote: The movie "White Noise" appears to have generated a lot of attention to this phenomenon lately. The reason I'm bringing it up here is because I have read of several people hearing messages that have an unidentifiable language and are believed to come from elsewhere in the Cosmos. I really wonder about this phenomenon and whether or not it is real? Are astronomical instruments like radio telescopes, etc able to listen to white noise the way an apparent noisy tape recorder does? The way the supposed messages are received almost seems too simple and contradicts, IMO, what radio telescopes and the like have been trying to accomplish for many years now: the determination of life outside the solar system. Is this broad white noise wavelength something that should be monitored on a regular basis professionally, or is this all someone's great fantasy and doesn't deserve any more attention than it already has? Like to read what others think. Personally, I can't say either way as I have never conducted any white noise experiments myself, but I don't feel very confident especially when you compare with the enormous sensitivity of radio scopes which, to my knowledge, have never received any signals representing intelligence elsewhere. Thanks, Bob |
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:01:21 -0700, Tim Killian
wrote: Spread spectrum signals can be broadcast at extremely low levels and they don't alter the spectrum enough to be detectable without tremendous effort. A receiver with the proper chipping sequence can extract the signals from what appears to be random noise. Yes, but I think what is being discussed is _people_ directly hearing or seeing messages in noise. That's quite different from a spread spectrum receiver doing it (and as you say, it just appears to be noise in that case... it isn't really.) On the subject of anomalous detection, how do you suppose all of those wild animals detected the imminent tsunami danger last month? I have seen no convincing evidence at all that any animals detected the tsunami. In fact, I've seen no convincing evidence that animals ever routinely sense seismic activity, at least not more than a few seconds earlier than people. I remember a couple of occasions when living in California where the cat got spooked before a big earthquake- maybe five seconds before I first heart them. Nothing too mysterious there. Certainly, in the areas affected by the recent tsunami, massive numbers of dead animals are contributing to the disease problem. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:27:06 GMT, Matthew Ota
wrote: First develop a good bull**** filter by going he http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/evp.html And do not waste any more time or money promoting this variety of nonsense. Besides, it is way off-topic. The first appropriate response to this ridiculous post I've read. Chris et.al., who seem to be attempting a PC correspondence with the OP: Can you not see this as the troll it was intended? Either this, or the OP is a true nut case from the Art Bell factory. Let it die. |
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:16:00 GMT, Chris L Peterson
wrote: I should add that if people are getting "messages" from white noise on their TVs or radios, the explanation may be much simpler. No TV or radio can be tuned to unallocated spectrum- what people call static or white noise is almost certainly a signal, albeit with a very poor signal-to-noise ratio. A bit of discernable image or sound from time to time is to be expected. Sadly, I knew a man who was getting messages from his window air conditioner ... but in his case the cause was alcoholism. |
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Sadly, I knew a man who was getting messages from his window air conditioner ... but in his case the cause was alcoholism. Hi: You make this sound like a _bad thing_! :-) Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html |
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I have seen no convincing evidence at all that any animals detected the
tsunami. In fact, I've seen no convincing evidence that animals ever routinely sense seismic activity, at least not more than a few seconds earlier than people. I remember a couple of occasions when living in California where the cat got spooked before a big earthquake- maybe five seconds before I first heart them. Nothing too mysterious there. Certainly, in the areas affected by the recent tsunami, massive numbers of dead animals are contributing to the disease problem. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com[/quote] The reason you have'nt seen any evidence on "the sixth sense of animals" is that there is no evidence we can prove.The human race has become very good at makeing theorys to things we dont understand. Remember what the definition of theory is... an educated guess. That means if we cant prove it in front of other peoples eyes, we make a guess. There are so many things in the universe that we don't, can't and won't ever comprehend. Maybe the forsight that animals have on seismic events is one of these things. Maybe to them its just as clear as our sight, our taste, or our ability to make things up... And whats up with the dead and diseased animals comment? What, do you hate animals that much that all diseases are their fault? What did that have to do with "white noise" ? |
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Chris L Peterson wrote:
Noise is noise- by definition devoid of informational content. When you can put That's not completely correct. The very property of noise is a flat spectrum when averaged over a wide range of wavelengths. But noise carries energy and therefore signal - in its amplitude. The point I try to make is that generically, the noise level you observe (i.e. the "background"), will remain constant (if you manage to eliminate all noise generators from your detection equipment, it'll come down to either quantum noise or the 3K radiation), but a change in amplitude (not in the freqency distribution) is indicative of an "event". Things like solar flares or supernova explosions in our galaxy, for example, would raise the "noise level" even on detectors not directly pointed at the source of that phenomenon. Not that this carries signals which a TV receiver would decode into a human-recognizable image. But monitoring noise levels is a true scientific method that's, e.g. been successful at detecting neutrinos from the SN1987A in the kamoikande neutrino detector. Or that's being employed at the south pole Amanda neutrino detector to "fingerprint" supernova explosions. Also, a lot of solar radio observation is nothing but "listening at noise", i.e. signal intensity within wide bands of radio emission. Many of those solar activity reports are nothing but that - reading of a "noise level" in a certain radio band. To some it's just noise. To others, it's music Bye, FrankH. |
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On 23 Jan 2005 13:00:12 GMT, Frank Hofmann
wrote: Chris L Peterson wrote: Noise is noise- by definition devoid of informational content. When you can put That's not completely correct... Yes, I realize that from a mathematical standpoint, "noise" is a complex subject. And in information theory, pure noise in a sense represents maximum information content because of its condition of zero correlation or redundancy. But in the context of this discussion, I think the statement is pretty reasonable. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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You're right, just the other day my electric shaver told me to go out
and wave my GLP in a menacing manner at airplanes and low-orbit satellites. Tim Killian wrote: Now I'm not saying that dead people regularly communicate with us between AM radio channels, but it appears that sometimes noise is NOT just "noise". |
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