re: Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree?

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Tom Brosz — 7/20/2006 5:04:48 PM (archived)

Please...don't mention hyperspace bypasses. It makes me nervous.

I've wondered for years if the main problem with SETI is that we might be doing the equivalent of sitting in the jungle, listening for distant drums, when radio waves are sleeting through our bodies.

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Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree? - LJK - 7/20/2006 5:02:40 PM
- It would be tricky for an ETI to beam a message in all directions, all of the time. - alcaray - 7/20/2006 5:47:42 PM
  - It would only make sense if he already knew we were here. (n/t) - ER - 7/20/2006 5:59:52 PM
- Yes - Jack Herer - 7/20/2006 5:12:36 PM
  - Interesting thought... - McFly - 7/20/2006 5:46:42 PM
- re: Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree? - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2006 5:04:48 PM
  - Superluminal communication? - SDF - 7/21/2006 3:45:18 AM
    - Lumination ruminations - ER - 7/21/2006 4:40:21 AM
      - re: Lumination ruminations - LJK - 7/21/2006 8:24:06 PM
        
        re: Lumination ruminations - SDF - 7/22/2006 11:45:59 AM
        
        An anthropic solution to Fermi! It makes sense. (n/t) - ER - 7/22/2006 1:46:05 PM
        
        re: An anthropic solution to everything - SDF - 7/22/2006 2:46:26 PM
        
        re: An anthropic solution to everything - ER - 7/22/2006 4:18:48 PM
        
        Artifacts on the moon - SDF - 7/22/2006 10:53:50 PM
        
        re: Artifacts on the moon - ljk - 7/23/2006 5:52:33 AM
  - re: Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree? - ER - 7/20/2006 5:42:21 PM
    - SETI often says more about humans than aliens... - LJK - 7/25/2006 3:53:39 PM

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