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Dr. Seth Shostak

The chances are there's life out there, but any messages could be thousands of years old and indecipherable. Roger Highfield reports

Aliens are probably common. Because there are billions of trillions of stars in the cosmos, many astronomers think it would be highly improbable for Earth to be the only rock to harbour life.

Whether ET is intelligent is still hotly debated. But no one doubts that the receipt of a signal from another civilisation would be Earth-shattering. "It would surely be the greatest discovery of all time, eclipsing the findings of Newton, Dawin and Einstein combined," says Prof Paul Davies, a British cosmologist from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University.
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Sir Ulli

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

Sounds reasonable to me. alien

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

wow this moirning I was saying to myself, "self, yes, its been a long time since sir Ulli checked in. Indeed!" and here you are. thanks again sir Ulli

I, too, thought Sir Ulli was long overdue for a visit Smile

However, I do not call myself, Self. I am on a 1st name basis, and frequently, AssHole will suffice.

Sir Ulli wrote:
"It would surely be the greatest discovery of all time, eclipsing the findings of Newton, Dawin and Einstein combined," says Prof Paul Davies, a British cosmologist from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University.

Sir Ulli

*Bangs the Gavel*

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:52 am Post subject:

and its a pretty cool article to boot, thanks again sir Ulli

Stray Dog Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 5

How many people actually read these forums ?

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: How many

ball5929 wrote:
How many people actually read these forums ?

looks like enough do

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: How many

ball5929 wrote:
How many people actually read these forums ?

I think there are 7 of us.
And we are all incredibly dense, so we have to read threads over
and over
and over
and over again to really understand them.

which of course, inflates the read count, and makes it look like we are really ultra cool and popular...

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: How many

ball5929 wrote:
How many people actually read these forums ?

I react to them and post but I never actually READ them.

And never about Folding or SETI etc.

For I apparently know nothing.

Butt Sniffer Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 1168 Location: USA

Personally I would dispute it being the greatest discovery of all time, as without an understanding physics, astronomy, and of the world around us, whatever is outside our planet would be beyond our ability to understand.

IMHO