The lost watch

Kapitan_Phillips · 03-14-08, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

The surest sign that there is intelligent life on other planets is that they have never tried to associate with us.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Famil...omage-to-Alien

Blacklight · 03-14-08, 07:25 PM

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The only problem I have with the idea of SETI is the aliens would have to be pretty close to receive our message in our lifetime. Assuming they would return the call.:hmm:

SETI isn't about contacting or even decoding the signals. It's set up to detect a signal and that's it. I realise that radio signals are subject to gravitational lensing and such, but there are still millions of stars within range where that lensing would be minimal. They've also only scanned maybe about 5% of the total sky around us. They're also looking into other communication methods that ET may be using other than simple radio waves and methods of detecting them as well. There is no definite and chances are slim, but right now, it's the best shot we have right now to make the greatest discovery mankind has ever made.

Sorry to dereail the thread.

Skybird · 03-14-08, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

Sorry to dereail the thread.

Too late. Easy words will not get you oput of this mess again. I won't forget, and I won't forgive. You will suffer for this dearly. Promised!

The day threads stop getting derailed is the day I know that subsim.com is no more.

Blacklight · 03-14-08, 11:19 PM

*Watches the thread go off the railroad tracks and up a ramp where it jumps over a tank full of sharks*

*Quickly hides from Skybird*

Graf Paper · 03-15-08, 12:53 AM

I always go for free screensavers, if I use one at all. Many of them are quite good.

If this were the late 90s, when screensavers were all the rage, you might be able to justify the cost by being part of the fad.

Back then, it seemed everyone had "Flying Toasters" or the "Dancing Baby" running on their idle desktops and people spent lots of money on screensaver making software like Firehand Lightning or Stardust.

Funny, those sharks don't look so dangerous from this altitiude. :p

Skybird · 03-16-08, 06:20 PM

the one screensaver I sometimes use, looks pretty much fascinating:

movie:

03-14-08, 11:19 PM	#4
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Watches the thread go off the railroad tracks and up a ramp where it jumps over a tank full of sharks Quickly hides from Skybird __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

03-15-08, 12:53 AM	#5
Graf Paper Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest United States Posts: 1,146 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	I always go for free screensavers, if I use one at all. Many of them are quite good. If this were the late 90s, when screensavers were all the rage, you might be able to justify the cost by being part of the fad. Back then, it seemed everyone had "Flying Toasters" or the "Dancing Baby" running on their idle desktops and people spent lots of money on screensaver making software like Firehand Lightning or Stardust. Funny, those sharks don't look so dangerous from this altitiude. :p __________________ Still sailing the high seas, hunting convoys with those who join me.

03-16-08, 06:20 PM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,685 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	the one screensaver I sometimes use, looks pretty much fascinating: movie: __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.