SETI - Off Topic

Will · #1 May 19th, 2001, 05:06 AM

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
If you decide to do it, consider putting your results into the Space Empires group...

Baron Munchausen · #2 May 20th, 2001, 08:06 PM

Actually, there's more than ONE Space Empires Seti team. Both of these teams are small enough as it is. We need to consolidate!

Can teams be merged? Can we persuade the members of one to join the other?

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 20 May 2001).]

Possum · #3 May 20th, 2001, 08:51 PM

It never ceases to amaze me how naive and guillible some people can be

Like our control-obsessed federal government is ever going to really allow you access to information of such potentially explosive importance. This are the same feds who still refuse to de-classify information from nearly a hundred years ago. Get a clue, folks, you're being duped.

capnq · #4 May 20th, 2001, 10:41 PM

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Like our control-obsessed federal government is ever going to really allow you access to information of such potentially explosive importance.

The feds' reach exceeds their grasp. There's no way they can block all the inbound signals from every direction around the planet, and no way to control the distribution of the information.

The trouble with most conspiracy theories is that they require a level of competence that human institutions have never demonstrated.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

Baron Munchausen · #5 May 21st, 2001, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by Possum:
It never ceases to amaze me how naive and guillible some people can be

Like our control-obsessed federal government is ever going to really allow you access to information of such potentially explosive importance. This are the same feds who still refuse to de-classify information from nearly a hundred years ago. Get a clue, folks, you're being duped.

This has nothing to do with the government. The radio telescope, the researchers who wrote the programs, the sponsors, the computer systems, and everything else are academic or private. Unless the political order in this country is a whole lot different than it has seemed all of my life, there's no G-man approving scientific research projects or filtering the data stream in and out of universities... yet! Not that there aren't a lot of G-men who'd like to appoint themselves to the job! What's 'explosive' about a signal from an alien civilization? Will it let you over-throw the Govt?

I think they're much more worried about people learning how to make explosives and/or firearms in their own homes than they are about a bunch of geeks competing in the SETI easter egg hunt.

rdouglass · #6 May 21st, 2001, 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Actually, there's more than ONE Space Empires Seti team. Both of these teams are small enough as it is. We need to consolidate! Can teams be merged? Can we persuade the members of one to join the other?

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 20 May 2001).]

Yes, there are 2 'cause I created the second one before I completely checked it out. I am now using the Space Empires (with a space) instead of SpaceEmpires. That is the only other Space Empires group I've seen..

zen. · #7 May 23rd, 2001, 04:01 PM

Hmmmm...maybe rename it to something the average user might pick up on easily...like 'Space Empires Forum' or something. Who are the other guys, anyway? They might not even know about this most beloved game.

zen