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Voyager mission in deep space
Probably, in all its enthusiasm, the Voyager mission left safety precautions about maintaining confidentiality on humanity and discloses on board, many uncomfortable details about earth and humanity!
Link: http://signifies.net/voyager-discloses-about-humanity/ |
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On 2/07/2012 3:11 PM, signifiespost wrote:
Probably, in all its enthusiasm, the Voyager mission left safety precautions about maintaining confidentiality on humanity and discloses on board, many uncomfortable details about earth and humanity! Link: http://signifies.net/voyager-discloses-about-humanity/ By the time Voyager gets somewhere where the confidentiality might be an issue, the human race will either be extinct, or will be well able to look after itself against any puny aliens. Sylvia. |
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On Jul 2, 1:29*am, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 2/07/2012 3:11 PM, signifiespost wrote: Probably, in all its enthusiasm, * the Voyager mission left safety precautions about maintaining confidentiality on humanity and discloses on board, many uncomfortable details about earth and humanity! Link: http://signifies.net/voyager-discloses-about-humanity/ By the time Voyager gets somewhere where the confidentiality might be an issue, the human race will either be extinct, or will be well able to look after itself against any puny aliens. Sylvia. We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? |
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On 02/07/2012 16:06, bob haller wrote:
snip We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? That's such an easy physics question even I can answer it! Radio travels at the speed of light so given our radio has been transmitting for at least a 100 years our transmissions have traveled at least 100 light years distance. putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? -- T |
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On 2/07/2012 9:06 PM, bob haller wrote:
We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? As has been said many times before, the signals we have been sending out are very low power and therefore very short range. It wouldn't even reach the nearest star outside our solar system. |
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On Jul 2, 7:59*am, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 2/07/2012 9:06 PM, bob haller wrote: We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? As has been said many times before, the signals we have been sending out are very low power and therefore very short range. *It wouldn't even reach the nearest star outside our solar system. thats assuming the ETs receivers are no better than our own........ |
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On 2/07/2012 10:43 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article 529ee44e-f348-4443-a0fa- , says... On Jul 2, 7:59 am, Alan Erskine wrote: On 2/07/2012 9:06 PM, bob haller wrote: We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? As has been said many times before, the signals we have been sending out are very low power and therefore very short range. It wouldn't even reach the nearest star outside our solar system. thats assuming the ETs receivers are no better than our own........ It's all of the background noise that would be a problem. Even if they could amplify the signal, they'd also amplify the background noise. Physics. Learn some. With a suitable (this is big directional) antenna, they can achieve a sufficient signal to noise ratio. However, the more directional the antenna, the more difficult it is to pick anything up by chance. Sylvia. |
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says... On 2/07/2012 10:43 PM, Jeff Findley wrote: In article 529ee44e-f348-4443-a0fa- , says... On Jul 2, 7:59 am, Alan Erskine wrote: On 2/07/2012 9:06 PM, bob haller wrote: We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? As has been said many times before, the signals we have been sending out are very low power and therefore very short range. It wouldn't even reach the nearest star outside our solar system. thats assuming the ETs receivers are no better than our own........ It's all of the background noise that would be a problem. Even if they could amplify the signal, they'd also amplify the background noise. Physics. Learn some. With a suitable (this is big directional) antenna, they can achieve a sufficient signal to noise ratio. There are limits to this. The orbit of the earth limits how far away from the sun our transmissions can be. Add to that fact that the sun outputs electromagnetic radiation, and you've got the beginnings of the problem the ET's would need to solve. They're antenna would need to be *very* directional indeed to mask the output of our sun while searching for transmissions from any planets in our solar system. However, the more directional the antenna, the more difficult it is to pick anything up by chance. I'm not a radio telescope expert, but there must be a hard limit, imposed by physics, to how far away the ET's could be and still be able to pick out our faint signal while masking our sun's emissions. By astronomical standards, that limit certainly won't be very far. "Space," says Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it's a long walk down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." Jeff -- " Ares 1 is a prime example of the fact that NASA just can't get it up anymore... and when they can, it doesn't stay up long. " - tinker |
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On 2/07/2012 11:22 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article , lid says... On 2/07/2012 10:43 PM, Jeff Findley wrote: In article 529ee44e-f348-4443-a0fa- , says... On Jul 2, 7:59 am, Alan Erskine wrote: On 2/07/2012 9:06 PM, bob haller wrote: We have been broadcasting our presence by radio and tv for how many years? not only would ETs know we exist, but lots about our actions Wars etc......... i wonder how far the futherest radion waves have traveled by now? putting it another way, if we were the ETS would we want to go meet people liker ourselves? As has been said many times before, the signals we have been sending out are very low power and therefore very short range. It wouldn't even reach the nearest star outside our solar system. thats assuming the ETs receivers are no better than our own........ It's all of the background noise that would be a problem. Even if they could amplify the signal, they'd also amplify the background noise. Physics. Learn some. With a suitable (this is big directional) antenna, they can achieve a sufficient signal to noise ratio. There are limits to this. The orbit of the earth limits how far away from the sun our transmissions can be. Add to that fact that the sun outputs electromagnetic radiation, and you've got the beginnings of the problem the ET's would need to solve. They're antenna would need to be *very* directional indeed to mask the output of our sun while searching for transmissions from any planets in our solar system. However, the more directional the antenna, the more difficult it is to pick anything up by chance. I'm not a radio telescope expert, but there must be a hard limit, imposed by physics, to how far away the ET's could be and still be able to pick out our faint signal while masking our sun's emissions. By astronomical standards, that limit certainly won't be very far. I don't think there's a limit in that sense. Quantum mechanics says that there's a certain minimum size of antenna that will work for a given frequency at a given distance (because otherwise you'd violate the uncertainty principle regarding the lateral position and momentum of the individual arriving photons). It seems to me that if you double the distance you have to double the linear dimension of the antenna. Eventually, of course, it becomes unmanagably large. Sylvia. |
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