"Alien life found" according to NASA filmmaker (Page 1/2)
Cliff Pennock OCT 13, 01:06 PM
Full story: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/n...r-claims/ar-AA1s7iYV

Not sure what to think of this.
williegoat OCT 13, 01:48 PM
I have my doubts, but it would be fascinating.

The next question would be: Does it know we are here?
Patrick OCT 13, 03:33 PM

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Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years from Earth and has two confirmed planets, a Jupiter-like gas giant and a rocky world called Proxima b in the habitable zone — key features of the star system that still has scientists excited about its prospects as a home for alien life.



It'll be awhile before we're exchanging ambassadors.
Marko OCT 13, 04:35 PM
Didn't Stephen Hawking suggest we maintain "Radio Silence" in regards to contacting alien life ?

If they travel any great distance, they are going to be looking for something to eat,

and we may be it.........
cliffw OCT 13, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Marko:
If they travel any great distance, they are going to be looking for something to eat,

and we may be it.........



"To Serve Man" is a famous episode from "The Twilight Zone". The story revolves around an alien race called the Kanamits, who come to Earth promising peace and advanced technology, but the twist reveals that their book titled "To Serve Man" is actually a cookbook, indicating their true intentions to use humans as food.
williegoat OCT 13, 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by Marko:

Didn't Stephen Hawking suggest we maintain "Radio Silence" in regards to contacting alien life ?

If they travel any great distance, they are going to be looking for something to eat,

and we may be it.........


Yeah. Think back to all of the "great explorers" in history. Most of them weren't out looking for new friends.

Then there is this:


Edit: cliffw beat me to it!

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Originally posted by cliffw:


"To Serve Man" is a famous episode from "The Twilight Zone". The story revolves around an alien race called the Kanamits, who come to Earth promising peace and advanced technology, but the twist reveals that their book titled "To Serve Man" is actually a cookbook, indicating their true intentions to use humans as food.


But we all know he ain't from 'round here.

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82-T/A [At Work] OCT 14, 05:36 PM
Reading the article... this doesn't seem as exciting as I thought.

They've apparently intercepted what they believe to be a radio signal from intelligent life. We've received several signals (many of which came from Alpha Centari) that the NSA collected, and subsequently released via FOIA over the past few decades. There's several of them posted at the Little Alien Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.

I don't doubt it might be something, but unless they can conceivably "decode" it... it'll go over like a lead weight when they report it.
NewDustin OCT 14, 10:53 PM
Wow!

Carl Sagan claimed there were at least 8 other events like the above, all lacking repeatability, however.
If this is just another Wow! there won't be anything all that Wow!full about it.
82-T/A [At Work] OCT 15, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by NewDustin:

Wow!

Carl Sagan claimed there were at least 8 other events like the above, all lacking repeatability, however.
If this is just another Wow! there won't be anything all that Wow!full about it.




Yeah... that's kind of the point I was trying to make. Unless they can do something with it, it's yet just another data point of many data points that are ignored.

Not to splash cold water on this either... but remember that a microwave, which operates at 2.45Ghz, VERY often will create a string of legitimately readable packets at the 2.4Ghz frequency, that can be picked up and decoded by promiscuous packet capture using WireShark. While the packet headers are of course malformed to some degree... these are still naturally occurring (or I should say incidentally occurring) phenomenon. So, it's entirely possible that something in nature is producing these signals, or yet still... something non-natural is accidentally creating these signals.

I discovered this while doing TSCM stuff several years ago.
NewDustin OCT 15, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Yeah... that's kind of the point I was trying to make. Unless they can do something with it, it's yet just another data point of many data points that are ignored.

Not to splash cold water on this either... but remember that a microwave, which operates at 2.45Ghz, VERY often will create a string of legitimately readable packets at the 2.4Ghz frequency, that can be picked up and decoded by promiscuous packet capture using WireShark. While the packet headers are of course malformed to some degree... these are still naturally occurring (or I should say incidentally occurring) phenomenon. So, it's entirely possible that something in nature is producing these signals, or yet still... something non-natural is accidentally creating these signals.

I discovered this while doing TSCM stuff several years ago.


I feel like that's the draw and rub all at the same time. It's probably something we could explain if we had more time or samples...but maybe it isn't...and that's SO intriguing to me. Like a space Bloop.