Re: This rock, this watery pearl, this pale blue dot.

You know it is difficult for people to graso just how alone we are in
the universe.

And even with the speculations of the Drake Equasion, that says well if
there are planets then there must be aliens and there are lots of suns
and planets out there.

But out there they are. Waaay out there.


In 1974, a largely symbolic attempt was made to send a message to other
worlds. To celebrate a substantial upgrading of the 305 metre Arecibo
Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico, a coded message of 1,679 bits was
transmitted towards the Globular Cluster M13, about 25,100 light years
away.

The pattern of 0s and 1s contained in the message defines a 23 × 73
two dimensional grid which when plotted reveals some data about our
location in the Solar System, a stylised figure of a human being,
chemical formulae and an outline of the radio telescope itself. The 23
by 73 grid was chosen because both 23 and 73 are prime numbers, which
makes it easier to decode the message. The reasons for this are:

* an attempt to factorize the length of the message would show that
it can't contain a grid with more than two dimensions (since there are
just two factors);
* assuming a two dimensional grid, there are only two possible
resultant images, with dimensions 23x73 or 73x23.

Given the limitations of the speed of light for message transmission,
no reply would be possible before the year 52,174 (approximately) and
hence has been dismissed by some as a publicity stunt. A controversy
arose because the transmission raised the serious question of whether a
small group should be allowed to speak for Earth.

So if it takes some 50,000 years to send a message, then you have to
wait 50,000 years for a reply, and that begs the question are these
people really insane or just maybe suffering from some sort of exposure
to deuterium or something?

And so even if we could get a signal from a star that was lets say 100
light years away.
Meaning we get a signal 100 years after it is sent, then we send a
reply and it takes a hundred years, well the Milky Way galaxy, our
little galactic home is
80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter.

Travelling at the speed of light for a hundred years doesn't take you
very far from home.

And the strength of the signal, to rise above the noise, would have to
be the entire signal strength of the all the worlds transcievers at
once in order to get any signal whatsoever that could be heard above
the din.

So you have to assume, that aliens, are using huge amounts of energy,
directed at us, to tell us something.

Well that is an insane proposition. Only in the 50's could anyone
believe anything as silly as that.

We can't get, to the closest star. The earth would be dead by the time
we got back that's for certain. Mass extinction events on earth happen
every 28 million years max.

We don't have that much time.

This is all we have right here and it is either do something to protect
it, or lets f*cking party like its 1999 and say the hell with it, the
hell with the future it isn't there, lets rock and roll baby, devil may
care but we sure as hell don't.

We are really living on borrowed time. And not making any moves to
preserve life in the universe from the dangers we know exist.

You can look at any p[ossible scenario and ask yourself what are we
doing really?

What is America doing to prepare for Yellowstone as instance?

Monitoring the situation.

What are we doing to protect ourselves from asteroid impact?

Monitoring the situation.

Really we are just waiting to die.

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