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A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by wizardforhire »

dylan604 wrote: post #12

A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night p…

Some now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by samus »

mpreda wrote: post #16
thegrim33 wrote: post #10

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I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us. The only rational,…

It seems to me you're projecting our own human nature over all possible intelligent life. But with a bit of imagination the potential space of intelligent life is much larger than just "displaying human-like agressive traits".

The loss of not making contact with friendly aliens is probably not very high. Attracting aliens whose presence would have negative impact for us would be catastrophic. The aliens would not even have to be that aggressive - there's plenty of different ways that civilizations can harm each other, even if it might not be intentional.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by samus »

dylan604 wrote: post #13
notso411 wrote: post #5

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Bit late for that mate.

Not really sure why this was killed, but it's absolutely true. From the moment we started making radio signals, we've been broadcasting our location. Every single time we communicate with our deep space probes, we're sending out very specific signals that we're here. To that end, that's the entire point of the opening scene in the movie Contact. It's just that the time frame we've been broadcasting is just a drop in…

Our signals are so weak that they will probably fade and get drowned out by the electromagnetic noise of interstellar space. We can communicate with our probes only because we use directional signals and we pretty much know what to look for on the receiving end. If aliens manage to pick those up, then their probes would already be like The intentional signals are a different story though.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by hammyhavoc »

wizardforhire wrote: post #21
dylan604 wrote: post #12

A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night p…

Some now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians

Who? There are DNA tests waiting for them to validate this very specific brand of bullshit.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by dylan604 »

wizardforhire wrote: post #21
dylan604 wrote: post #12

A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night p…

Some now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians

Wait, you're saying that people claim that they themselves are reptilians? I've only heard the nutters claiming that other people are reptiles. There's always gotta be somebody out there that just has to one up the story.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by exe34 »

dylan604 wrote: post #13
notso411 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bit late for that mate.

Not really sure why this was killed, but it's absolutely true. From the moment we started making radio signals, we've been broadcasting our location. Every single time we communicate with our deep space probes, we're sending out very specific signals that we're here. To that end, that's the entire point of the opening scene in the movie Contact. It's just that the time frame we've been broadcasting is just a drop in…

They can probably just watch co2 spectral lines and count how many of us there are.

Re: A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)

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Post by p1mrx »

dylan604 wrote: post #26
wizardforhire wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians

Wait, you're saying that people claim that they themselves are reptilians? I've only heard the nutters claiming that other people are reptiles. There's always gotta be somebody out there that just has to one up the story.

That's nothing. I am double secret reptilian.
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