http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341 "It's the most interesting signal from SETI@home," says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the...
Oh, shoot. I was charged with baby-sitting my sister's pet hermit crabs last week, and one vanished (I think my cat got it). Anyway, I was planning on using...
... And, if you're interested, here's the link to the SETI workunit itself: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/SHGb02+14a/SHGb02+14a.html...
How much more ridiculous can this SETI nonsense get? The signal has a frequency of 1420 MHz, one of hydrogen's major emission frequencies. There is no obvious...
I'm not an expert, but with what little I understand of this issue, I disagree with several of these statements. ... I don't know which direction the signal is...
In a message dated 9/5/2004 13:27:02 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I'm sorry you're so jaded. The investment is so small, and the possible payoff so large, then...
Well you're entitled to your opinion. ... From: <skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com> To: <skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 3:26 AM ...
Seti@Home isn't the only program out there. I ditched Seti for Folding@Home (http://folding.stanford.edu/) two years ago. Why waste your spare computing power...
Many ancient and modern cultures have creation myths involving flood legends similar to the the Bible's story of Noah's Ark. Thinkers over the centuries,...
I'm always puzzled by this expression "you're entitled to your opinion." Really? I don't think so. I should say, I'm skeptical of that claim! Speaking for...
Speaking of opinions, here are a few relevant quotes: "Everybody is entitled to his own opinions but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan "Everyone is...
Well okay, he isn't entitled to his opinion. I wasn't feeling very talkative at the time but felt I had to say something. The important thing is that I ...
eric carlson: "I'm not an expert [...]" I am. :) eric carlson: "I don't know which direction the signal is from [...]" The signal is coming from a point...
... That's not specific enough. I don't know the RA and dec. ... Well, I guess the statement was ambiguous, so I don't understand what it means. The Sun, for...
... Hello "expert," The 18 to 21cm range is a very quiet spot in the spectrum. Real astronomers are quite aware of the hydrogen line at 1420.4058 MHz. The...
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'informant skepticide' wrote: My problem with SETI is that it makes too many unsupported assumptions. For example, SETI assumes that extraterrestrials are at...
Chris responded primarily to Informant Skepticide, but one of his responses was actually to something I said. ... This should have been labelled EC (me). ... I...
Chris Manning wrote: ... Yeah, I thought of that, though I'm not sure how easy we would be able to find it. I expect Jesus was a pretty common name, and there...
I found this very interesting. I can't see any obvious flaws(so far), but my backround is no where near strong enough in this subject to fully evaluate this...
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"...my "opinion" WAS shaped by careful thought, research, ... Yes. Thanks for asking. It bears noting that my comment (the light, sidebar nature of which ...
To stake a claim that you hold the answer to the question `What was the purpose of Stonehenge?' is more than egotistical and attention seeking, it's plain...
I am not an expert but I suspect Sagan wasn't a crash-hot scientist. He *was* a great science populariser. ... From: <skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com> To:...
Okay, time for me to talk about this a bit more. ... I think this is the intended reference: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150 I've read the article. To...
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