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I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's definitely aliens..

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  • 30-08-2016 08:02PM
    #1
    The_Valeyard
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    So SETI and Russian instruments are picking up very strong signals from star HD164595.

    They are trying to figure out whether the signal is artificial or natural like a pulsar or some other phenomenon.

    Could be it aliens? Probably not.

    Interesting all the same though.

    What does anyone here think, or would ye have zero interest in something like this?

    Personally I think if the signal was proven to be artificial, it would be one of the biggest events in modern human history.

    Here is the story about it:


    http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/30/health/seti-signal-hd-164595-alien-civilization/


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    #2
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Chinese lanterns.











    Bunch of them.











    Great bunch of lanterns.


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    #3
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    I for one welcome our insect overlords.


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    #4
    [Deleted User]
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    But somewhere out there, something is watching us. There are alien forces acting in ways we can't perceive. Are we alone in the universe? Impossible. When you consider the wonders that exist all around us.... Voodoo priests of Haiti, Tibetan Numerologists of Appalachia. The unsolved mysteries of...unsolved mysteries. The truth...is out there!


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    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I want to believe.


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It will be natural but the plot twist is that it's the same as morse code


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    Firefox11
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    'Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..'


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    Giacomo McGubbin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Giacomo McGubbin


    something something rant about religion something something


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    [Deleted User]
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    Firefox11 wrote: »
    'Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..'

    Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn


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    foggy_lad
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    OK Who left their radioactive magnet collection beside the monitoring equipment?


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    Ted111
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    I think we should offer friendship to the Aliens.
    Ask them to lower their shields to allow an ambassadorial ship
    through to discuss peace terms.
    When they drop their shields .... Hit them with everything we've got.


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    The_Valeyard
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn

    It's a really, really cool story and soundtrack.


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    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Where the hell is Jodie Foster? She should be decoding this message, and flirting with Matthew McConaughey, and building that machine where she jumped into a vortex or something......seeing her father...I dunno, I kind of lost track of what happened in that film when it went all weird and trippy.


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    evolving_doors
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    at 94 light years away it would take about 35 days for that radio signal to reach here. Given how people moan and biawtch when the internet goes down for 1 minute I don't think we'd have the stamina to hold a conversation. (Not to mention finding a translation!).

    So ya, even if there were aliens, most of the population would be like 'meh, ain't no one got no time for that' and we'd get back to talking about Donald Trump and getting rid of school uniforms again.


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    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    There's a starman waiting in the sky
    He'd like to come and meet us
    But he thinks he'd blow our minds.


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    Jimbob1977
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    They're using our satellites against us


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    The_Valeyard
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Chinese lanterns.











    Bunch of them.











    Great bunch of lanterns.

    Clever f*ckers the Chinese, getting lanterns 94 light years away. Bet they claimed all the planets along the way.


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    endacl
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    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    something something rant about religion something something

    You do tend to, all right. On lots of threads where religion likely wouldn't get a mention at all at all, up pops McGubbin with his funny little angry religious head on him!

    :D


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    James74
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    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    at 94 light years away it would take about 35 days for that radio signal to reach here.

    Now I'm no Brian Cox... but I'm not sure you're completely 100% accurate with your maths there. Maybe tweak it a tad by adding...what...a touch under 94 years to that 35 days?


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    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    They're using our satellites against us

    Times up.


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    #21
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    iDave wrote: »
    Times up.

    Swwwwwwwwwweeeeeeehh


    Pow pow pow pow pow pow kboooommm


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    Giacomo McGubbin
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    endacl wrote: »
    You do tend to, all right. On lots of threads where religion likely wouldn't get a mention at all at all, up pops McGubbin with his funny little angry religious head on him!

    :D

    Sorry I got in before your rant about religion. I suppose if your beat you can try to resort to attacking the poster instead, but it's a bit obvious.


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    coolhandspan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭coolhandspan


    hi folks, i love the way they knew for months at SETI yet decided not to tell us in case of panic lol...no one cares except us 10 people on boards.

    seriously though we need to ignore this signal and develop our technology for a 1,000 years then answer...


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    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,826 ✭✭✭Archeron


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn

    I was trying to fit that into the countdown tune.


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    #25
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It has to be heaven, it's probably getting pretty full there right now and they're trying to signal us to tell us we need to find sonewhere else to go. If God knew they were trying to signal us he'd lose the bap and probably perform a few miracles of the punishment type.


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    #26
    Jaggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭Jaggo


    I am claiming dips on the northern hemisphere


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    #27
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    It has to be heaven, it's probably getting pretty full there right now and they're trying to signal us to tell us we need to find sonewhere else to go. If God knew they were trying to signal us he'd lose the bap and probably perform a few miracles of the punishment type.

    Wrong way around....hell is now full, the dead will walk the earth.


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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,347 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    "Thank you, NASA. Thank you, NASA. Thank you, NASA!"


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,775 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Beware of the Perytons !


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    #30
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    coolhandspan wrote: »
    hi folks, i love the way they knew for months at SETI yet decided not to tell us in case of panic lol...no one cares except us 10 people on boards.

    seriously though we need to ignore this signal and develop our technology for a 1,000 years then answer...

    True, had this news arrived in the mid 90's during X-Files mania it would have been a bigger deal, these days people are only interested in receiving nude selfies and being knobs, way hey for progress.


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    #31
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I hope they come and kill us all, I've had enough of everybody's ****e.


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