Comments on: How To Chat With an Alien: The Official Guide http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:04:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: amphiox http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-26036 amphiox Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:13:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-26036 It's not like we'd have to decide to reply right away. Why not listen for a while, learn what we can about the message, and then decide whether or not replying would be a wise thing to do? (We could use the intervening years to establish a colonization project going in the other direction if we're really that worried) It’s not like we’d have to decide to reply right away. Why not listen for a while, learn what we can about the message, and then decide whether or not replying would be a wise thing to do? (We could use the intervening years to establish a colonization project going in the other direction if we’re really that worried)

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]]> By: frank http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-24945 frank Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:20:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-24945 Do they play texas holden lol. Send them the bible in morse. Do they play texas holden lol.

Send them the bible in morse.

]]> By: ares http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-24549 ares Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:35:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-24549 amazing part is what we will receive: maybe thousands of years of a civilization’s technological advancements! Or better yet, what if they amazing part is what we will receive: maybe thousands of years of a civilization’s technological advancements! Or better yet, what if they

]]> By: robert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23788 robert Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:02:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23788 If we do find alien life, the conversation would be very one sided. Remember that only 100 years ago we had model T's and the Wright flyer's. What we receive in information is the important part, because in the time it takes for them to get our message (say just 100) and for us to receive a response (another 100 years) we will be very different people then. The amazing part is what we will receive: maybe thousands of years of a civilization's technological advancements! Or better yet, what if they received similar messages thousands of years ago. The information we get would be a galactic "chain mail" from many worlds halfway across the Milkyway from 100,000 years ago being repeated back from countless civilizations. If we do find alien life, the conversation would be very one sided.

Remember that only 100 years ago we had model T’s and the Wright flyer’s. What we receive in information is the important part, because in the time it takes for them to get our message (say just 100) and for us to receive a response (another 100 years) we will be very different people then.

The amazing part is what we will receive: maybe thousands of years of a civilization’s technological advancements! Or better yet, what if they received similar messages thousands of years ago. The information we get would be a galactic “chain mail” from many worlds halfway across the Milkyway from 100,000 years ago being repeated back from countless civilizations.

]]> By: Pat Montana http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23780 Pat Montana Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:45:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23780 @ Monsanto... WOW!!! 1) Pie comes from a bakery. The number is pi. 2) You managed to cover the "Big Business" conspiracy (Monsanto, and either General Mills Foods or genetically modified foods...not sure which), the "Government is Out to Get Us" conspiracy (the "fed" debt machine), and the mob in what is one period away from a huge, run-on nonsensical sentence. If you could have worked in the "Moon Landing Hoax" it would have covered the Holy Trinity of conspiracy theories! Sounds like somebody buys their undies at "Paranoids R Us"! @ Monsanto…

WOW!!!

1) Pie comes from a bakery. The number is pi.

2) You managed to cover the “Big Business” conspiracy (Monsanto, and either General Mills Foods or genetically modified foods…not sure which), the “Government is Out to Get Us” conspiracy (the “fed” debt machine), and the mob in what is one period away from a huge, run-on nonsensical sentence. If you could have worked in the “Moon Landing Hoax” it would have covered the Holy Trinity of conspiracy theories!

Sounds like somebody buys their undies at “Paranoids R Us”!

]]> By: Scholarly One http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23775 Scholarly One Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:07:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23775 Hypothetically speaking, If we place intelligent life into 2 basic categories, the kind that don't have the ability to find us, and the type that do have the ability to find us, we can see that the one that "can't" find us is really not a threat...their abilities are limited for the time being. The one that can find us...well...they either have or have not already done so. If they have then they are not a threat because it would take either "benevolence" or “fear” (aka lack of confidence) to resist such an opportunity. Meaning they are watching to get a game plan for the game day first encounter - aggressive or friendly) Either way, If they haven't found us, then we need to find them first(scout) so that we "know" more about them to make our diplomatic decision. For that, the best policy for dealing with intelligent life is respect and the benefit of the doubt. Second best is to raise our guard just as fast as we lower it. Now offer me job with SETI and I'll take it. Hypothetically speaking, If we place intelligent life into 2 basic categories, the kind that don’t have the ability to find us, and the type that do have the ability to find us, we can see that the one that “can’t” find us is really not a threat…their abilities are limited for the time being. The one that can find us…well…they either have or have not already done so. If they have then they are not a threat because it would take either “benevolence” or “fear” (aka lack of confidence) to resist such an opportunity. Meaning they are watching to get a game plan for the game day first encounter – aggressive or friendly) Either way, If they haven’t found us, then we need to find them first(scout) so that we “know” more about them to make our diplomatic decision. For that, the best policy for dealing with intelligent life is respect and the benefit of the doubt. Second best is to raise our guard just as fast as we lower it. Now offer me job with SETI and I’ll take it.

]]> By: Terry G. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23774 Terry G. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:41:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23774 Any broadcast we receive would more than likely be several hundreds or thousands of years old. A reply would take equal amounts of time. I say we have to first figure out how to communicate over those vast distances before we decide what to say. Perhaps we should figure out how to talk to the ones that are already here. :-) Any broadcast we receive would more than likely be several hundreds or thousands of years old.

A reply would take equal amounts of time. I say we have to first figure out how to communicate over those vast distances before we decide what to say.

Perhaps we should figure out how to talk to the ones that are already here. :-)

]]> By: Clark http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23770 Clark Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:50:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23770 How about; "Is there intelligent life there, because we are unable to find any here." How about; “Is there intelligent life there, because we are unable to find any here.”

]]> By: Corey C. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-23768 Corey C. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:27:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/08/how-to-chat-with-an-alien-the-official-guide/#comment-23768 "[...] show some signs of intelligence like maybe SOS the number pie is"? There are so many things wrong with that statement that I just don't know where to begin. “[...] show some signs of intelligence like maybe SOS the number pie is”?

There are so many things wrong with that statement that I just don’t know where to begin.

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