Re: Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away

From: Vanilla Gorilla (Monkey Boy) (vgorilla_at_pobox.alaska.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:16:43 -0800

On 26 Sep 2004 23:37:17 GMT, John Griffin <thathillbilly@yahooie.com>
wrote in alt.fan.art-bell in message
<Xns9570A913B26E8thathillbillyyahooco@130.133.1.4>:

>"EvolBob" <robertwm@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
>Top-posted stuff moved to proper place. See below.
>
>>
>> "Aratzio" <a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com> wrote
>> Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:11:25 -0800, "Vanilla Gorilla (Monkey Boy)"
>> <vgorilla@pobox.alaska.net> transparently proposed:
>>
>>>On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:37:33 +1200, "EvolBob" <robertwm@orcon.net.nz>
>>>wrote in alt.fan.art-bell in message <4152edb9_3@corp.newsgroups.com>:
>>>
>>>>Three things are certain:
>>>>
>>>>1 We are not alone
>>>>2 Intelligent life that has been around more than a million years
>>>>is aware of us.
>>>>3 Earth has been visited; I said Earth - not us!
>>>
>>>Your definition of "certain" leaves a lot to be desired.
>>
>> Like what, PROOF?
>--------------------------------------
>
>>>Like what, PROOF?
>>
>> Exactly!
>>
>> Everyone knows if you drive safely the accident rate will go down.
>
>It's very likely that there are people who don't know that.
>
>> No one believes if everyone drove as safely as possible, there would
>> be no accidents.
>
>It's very likely that there are people who do believe that. Maybe only
>13 on the entire planet, but almost certainly not zero.
>
>> The proof is there in the incredibly long statistics, that the 3
>> certain things I mentioned could not be true.
>
>Proof in statistics?! I love new concepts. Tell me more!
>
>> If you had a good knowledge of how life can develop, and how
>> resourceful intelligent life is, and just how many planets there are
>> in the Universe for this to occur, Monkey Boy would know I was simply
>> stating the obvious.
>
>That's borderline silly. We all have equal knowledge of life elsewhere in
>the universe, i.e., none.
>
>Obvious that it's impossible that Earth has not been visited? No.
>
>Obvious that it's impossible that we are alone? No.
>
>Obvious that it's impossible that entities from "out there" are aware of
>us? ***, no. As a matter of fact, the probability is vanishingly
>small. As a matter of fact, consider the SETI project. The scientists
>are "listening" on what they think is the most logical narrow band of
>wavelength. The critters they're looking for are probably doing the same,
>but nothing on Earth is transmitting on that band. (I don't know that
>for sure.) Furthermore, everything we have leaked into space will be
>drowned in the sun's spectrum, and if not, it has only reached somewhere
>around a couple of dozen stars.
>
>Your concept of "certain" doesn't work.
>
>I happen to believe there has been life somewhere in the universe
>continuously for several billion years. Civilizations have flourished and
>then perished with their stars, and not one of them has been able to
>reach another star, any more than we can say we will have reached another
>star if one of the Voyagers happens to get captured by one a few million
>years from now. I'd bet that there's lots more non-sentient life than the
>kind that evolves into a technological, or even civilized species.
>
>Now for the serious stuff. HAARP is actually an interstellar
>communications device, and it uses propietary technology developed by
>Alaskans. It actually sends and receives by means other than the
>relatively slow electromagnetic radiation we all know about. HAARP's
>first identical twin is on a planet orbiting a star somewhere between 30
>and 90 light years away. The actual distance and coordinates are a big
>fuckin' secret. Since the first thing the Alaskans did when they
>invented HAARP was to broadcast its blueprints, the fuckin' things are
>sprouting all over the galaxy.

Plus, it picks up HBO for free. 

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