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Whilst I'm firmly convinced that much of the universe is infested with life, I do find it unlikely that SETI is the way to find it. SETI has always struck me as having a ridiculously anthropocentric view of the universe, seeming to be based on the notion that any "intelligent" species will follow a technological development that closely mirrors that of homo sapiens and reach an inevitable point where they start playing with radio telescopes and send out some code that any other life-form will somehow get.
What would such a message say, any way? We already struggle to communicate with the vast majority of the millions of life-forms on our planet, God help any poor alien that tries to decipher all that useful information that we put on Voyager.
If what the article says is true about the amount of energy required to broadcast in every direction, then it's hard to imagine any intelligent species expending such colossal resource on such a random process (especially when any message could easily be interpreted as "come and invade us if you're more advanced than we are").
If the message is actually targeted at our tiny corner of space, then the obvious question would be why? It would have to be in response to something that happened at least 190 years ago (time for a signal to get there and back at light speed) and it's hard to imagine that anything done on Earth prior to 1826 would have been detectable that far away.
It seems a lot more likely that we've stumbled across a natural phenomenon rather than an interstellar message in a bottle.
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I agree with your point that assuming extraterrestrial civilizations develop in any way similar to our own is foolish.
PeejayAdams wrote: it's hard to imagine that anything done on Earth prior to 1826 would have been detectable that far away
Faraday was experimenting with electric motors in the 1820's. Any conductor that passes current through it becomes an transmitter. Since we cannot say with absolute certainty the amounts of current Faraday was employing in some of his experiments, it cannot be ruled out as a possible source, but that also assumes the receiving end has receivers sensitive enough to pick up the EM hum of washing machines.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Fair point, and whilst picking that out against the background noise might seem like a virtual impossibility to us, it could well be child's play to a more technologically evolved species.
And if they can do that ... well, we may not have to wait 95 years for a visit.
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Well, I do like to entertain the idea that we have our physics fundamentals backwards. It does make the flight of fancy that faster then light travel is possible.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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The signal has been deciphered - it seems it's a batch of another 24,000 deleted emails from Hillary Clinton's server. According to one source, none of the emails are about yoga.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Quote: Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-dee
If you are wise, you'll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at getting terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?
...
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da
If you're not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
RIP
Jeremy Falcon
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Now, this 2016 is awful.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Yeah, Let's take a vote to restore the backup and try again! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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There are very few movies worth watch more than once. He seems to be in most of them.
“What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.”
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The world just got a little less wonderful, and a lot less charming.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Just a couple of weeks ago I saw he was still alive, I had thought he pass a few years ago. I was glad to see he was okay and now...
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Note my signature comes from one of his movies.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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...and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll find some excuse for never going back into the office again...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man how to fish and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man. Fishing’s not that hard.”
-- Ron Swenson
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he has to buy bamboo rods, graphite reel, monofilament lines, neoprene waders, tackle boxes, lures, 20 pocket vest, fish finders, depth sounders, radar, boats, trailers, global positioning systems, coolers and a six pack.
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Quote: Teach a man to fish golf, and he'll find some excuse for never going back into the office again...
FTFY 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Teach a man to fish and his lawyers will be filing suit against you because of his allergic reaction to seafood. The only reason a grown man couldn't fish is because his parents were keeping him away from fish and seafood and then you went and ruined it, risking his life - you murderer!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Light a man a fire - keep him warm for a day
Light a man ON fire - keep him warm for life
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: keep him warm for life
the remaining 30 seconds of it anyway.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If he's lucky. 
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True dat!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This one is much more effective if you do it right:
Set a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man afire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.
The original point was to illustrate the importance of literacy, something rapidly dying out...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Give a man a fish... then he'll have the fish.
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Give a man a fish and he'1l eat for a day. Give a man not a fish and he will have the rest of the world except the fish 
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