News

[BugHunter]

On the news front:

A big mess occured in New York City when protests broke out without permits and as a result a bunch of protesters got arrested.

Also, Hurricane Frances is heading toward Florida and she is one mean B****.

[copyKatt]

hehe, thay had a dr dan

but that sounds interesting, although im pretty skeptical. if some alein race wanted to get in touch with us, im sure we would get a little more then random radio waves. still a really interesting thought though.

[Cobra5]

Firstly, we have a bunch of reletives in florida who lost their homes. A lot of them.

Secondly, cass, we arn't looking for an alien race who is trying to get in contact with us. If that would happen, we'd pick it up clear as day.

We're trying to find evidence of another culture as advance, or at least almost advanced, as we are. For example, if there is another species out there that uses radio communication, we'd try to look for and find the radion transmisions from their planet- even if the transmisions arn't meant to be coming toward us.

Like, some of our TV stations, satalite communications, etc etc are strong enough to pick up, although faint, from other star systems.

'Random Radio Waves' might not be a good way to say "Hey guys, Look over here!!" But its a good way to send short range communications, television, etc. And if we found something like that, its just as good as saying "Look! We're intelegent!". We're just trying to find any paterns, waves, or emissions of any kind that arn't natural.

The chances of us finding a race more advanced then us is basically zero. If there was a more advanced race out there, they'd've contacted us. We're looking for less advanced races.

Even IF we did find another race, it wouldn't mean much. We'd be so far apart, seeing eachother would be impossable, and communication would be difficult at best.

Still, wouldn't it be nifty if we started e-mailing eachother .jpgs and stuff saying "And these are what our trees look like! How 'bout you guys?"

[BugHunter]

And look, this is our eBay! We sell stuff here. And soon, we'll teleport diagrams for your very own McDonalds. And in return, you can teleport us your oil

[Cobra5]

heh heh heh...

Hey, maybe we are relativly moral and selfless compared to other races out there. Who knows?

[copyKatt]

we could also be a gluttonous, conivving, wasteful, iniquitous, and immoral race compared to them. who knows?


i like wills idea better though...

[Deimos]

hmmm...it would be pretty darn interesting either way

[BugHunter]

Cobra5 said:

heh heh heh...

Hey, maybe we are relativly moral and selfless compared to other races out there. Who knows?

lol, yea:

"And soon, we'll teleport diagrams for your very own gardens and national forests. And in return, you can........." *Giant Laser Ray shoots and destoys Earth*

[copyKatt]

lol, that would suck...

[Cobra5]

Yeah:

"So, this is what our trees look like. What about you guys?"

*static*

"WE'RE INVADING YOU'RE ASSES BWAHAHAHA!

Uh... did I say that out loud? By invade I meant... uh... nice tree..."

[BugHunter]

Mine was funnier, and had a comic tie-in with a previous post. So nyah

[Tassatul]

Cobra5 said:

The chances of us finding a race more advanced then us is basically zero. If there was a more advanced race out there, they'd've contacted us. We're looking for less advanced races.

I wouldnt say zero. They could be a few hundred years ahead of us and still not be able to contact us. Like humans in a few hundred years are expected to be all over the solar system, but we probably still wont have a way to travel to other systems, it just takes to long. So same thing with any alien cultures. Advanced, but not enough that they can reach or contact us.

[Cobra5]

Well, if they're more advanced, they'd be able to broadcast messages into space, or at least recieve ours... that's what I mean...

[Coral]

If they were more advanced, they'd detect our communications and obliterate us. If someone less advanced contacted us, we'd make a ship to contact them, but it would end up in 'failure' (aka, obliteration of the enemy.). So, obliterate or be obliterated!

Why, obliterate us, you may ask? Well if an empire gets big enough to multi state-governed solar system, an alien could independently launch his own assault on earth for its resources. How could he do it independently? He governs a SOLAR SYSTEM. The only way to communicate with his fellow aliens would take 50 years. So, some maniacal alien could invade us, and it would take 5-50 years for his fellows to know about it and act. By then, it might be a tad bit late... As it would take quite a while to get to us

[Cobra5]

yeah, but who says they'd do that. Like, just becuase a country COULD capture the world, dosn't mean they will.

And besides, aliens might have totally different psychology.