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September 2nd, 2004, 13:43
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: who haa
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 |  Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... [ QUOTE ] LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico. There are other explanations besides extraterrestrial contact that may explain the signal. New Scientist said the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself. But the mystery beam has excited astronomers across the world. "If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England told the magazine. It was broadcast on the main frequency at which the universe's most common element, hydrogen, absorbs and emits energy, and which astronomers say is the most likely means by which aliens would advertise their presence. The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI+home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope. [/ QUOTE ] |
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September 2nd, 2004, 13:53
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... Woo hoo! I helped find aliens [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] |
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September 2nd, 2004, 13:57
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... You'll be the first to be probed ... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] |
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September 2nd, 2004, 14:14
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... |
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September 2nd, 2004, 16:56
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... Dude, Carl Sagan died in 1996. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] And, I don't think that he was ever in a wheelchair. Do you mean Stephen Hawking? |
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September 2nd, 2004, 17:02
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... D'oh!!! Yeah Stephen Hawking ... [/sneaksawaywithfootinmouth] |
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September 2nd, 2004, 17:28
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... No worries, for some reason when I read the subject line I was picturing Gene Rodenberry (you know, from Star Trek). I was thinking "The guy who created Star Trek is dead, and he wasn't in a wheelchair". Then I went "Wait a minute, Carl Sagan didn't create Star Trek" I know, none of this makes any sense. So, where is the hurricane going to make landfall? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] |
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September 2nd, 2004, 18:04
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| Re: Carl Sagan just messed his wheel chair ... Me thinks he'd get a woody instead! JR |
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