Mysterious signal from space: Is it alien or an unknown phenomenon?
 

Interesting read- I have difficult believing in aliens so I say its an unknown phenomenon

http://globalnews.ca/news/1916052/my...wn-phenomenon/

Markus

Read that the other day.

Might be aliens, might also be a sports bar pirating a satellite signal. That's why it's unknown. There's only 10 signals, so they don't have a lot of data to work with yet. They'll figure it out eventually.

If it is aliens, they sent those signals a very, very, very long time ago. :sunny:

It's funny how we always think in "us-term" when there's a discussion about Aliens. Have no one ever thought of that they may be thousands of year ahead of us and by now and perhaps can send message from one galaxy to another from one day to the other

That if it is alien.

Markus

If they are thousands of years ahead of us, then they probably still won't want to talk to us, as we'll be the equivalent of primitive life to them.

'They haven't got time travel yet? Bwahahahaha! Don't bother talking to them, they're so backwards it hurts!'

Very true mapuc, Also, in the article I read, it siad there is a decent chance that they are somewhat local, within our end of the galaxy.

That's why I say its a natural phenomenon, having difficult believe in Aliens and if they do exist, why bother contact us, who may be in the stone age in their view.

Markus

I think this a destroyer sonar :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

If they had the kind of technology that can circumvent physics and travel faster than light, why would they send a signal from thousands or millions of light-years away? It they could send a message that far in one day they would more likely just travel here and say "Hello". They would probably also have the technology to send us a message we could understand.

Which was my point in the first place. It's probably natural.

Given the vast distances and the time necessary to cover them, if it is an actual signal for an alien intelligence, the possibility also exists they might not even exist any more given how long ago they might have been sent. They might be nothing more than sonic fossils...


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You're forgetting that we are sending signals now. When our civilization is a thousand years advanced with FTL drive, those signals will still be traveling on.

Anyway, those advanced aliens likely view us primitives as space tourism sites and get a good laugh at our stupid moronic struggles.

Human civilization is 10,000ish years old. Technological human civilization is 500 years old. High technology is maybe 60 years old. Life is 3 billion years old. If I were to project our advancement, I can imagine us as a species remaining barely comprehensible and recognizable to our present day selves for another 1 to 2,000 years, tops. Maybe aliens that have been around for billions of years don't find us remotely interesting or worth their while. We do occasionally send biologists out to prod deep-sea-vent creatures, but far from every deep-sea-vent creature gets a visit from a biologist.

Since we're talking about contact between civilizations, at some level of mutual comprehensibility, not contact between apes and angels, I would say that the chances of conversations with aliens are a bit more remote when the timescales are considered.

Could well be the case, I simply fear we don't end up as another option on their food chain.