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

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mapuc

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

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.

That if it is alien.

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

[STEED]

[vienna]

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...


<O>

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.

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.

[Torplexed]

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.

[Jimbuna]

Maybe aliens that have been around for billions of years don't find us remotely interesting or worth their while.

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

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

Not yet we're sex toys to them, anal probing.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by STEED

Not yet we're sex toys to them, anal probing.

Na. That's just experimenting to find the best stuffing.
What opening of a Turkey does one shove stuffing into?

[Wolferz]

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

^Precisely! the reason they don't communicte is so simple...no one talks to food!

Le diner est servi i(n gray script)

[Buddahaid]

Talking about food.....

[Eichhörnchen]

I didn't post one of these yet?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

The message referenced a document of theirs entitled "how to serve man."

I don't think we have anything to worry about.

[vienna]

So, let's say it is an alien message, and, let's say, earth scientists decipher and translate the message; what if the message says something like:

"Greetings:

I am an Alpha/Centurian prince and I am in need of your assistance in reclaiming my due inheritance..."...


<O>

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by vienna

So, let's say it is an alien message, and, let's say, earth scientists decipher and translate the message; what if the message says something like:

"Greetings:

I am an Alpha/Centurian prince and I am in need of your assistance in reclaiming my due inheritance..."...


<O>

Those are old messages due to the distance.
Newer technology developed by the Aliens sends faster signals that have out paced the older.

Haven't you gotten the "Your Walmart $153 dollar Gift Card is about to expire!" Messages yet?