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Heti
Hiding (from) extra-terrestrial intelligence - a global lightning muffler system | |
Consider;
Lightning generates strong radio spectrum bursts.
There are between five and ten million lightning events every day, globally.
Million monkeys / million typewriters / lots of time = Shakespeare theory.
We are listening for THEM (see seti.org) and if THEM is there then THEY are probably
listening for US.
It's only a matter of time before our electric atmosphere sends out some message like, "Hey Karg! Your intergalactic destructor beam ain't up to shit!"
We need a worldwide system of highpower radio frequency generators set up to dampen these millions of radio signals before we end up offending someone.
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I think I understand the concern epxressed in the idea. It's along the lines of the "Face On Mars" deal - if you see a rock formation that looks sort of like a face shape, then someone obviously built a face on Mars. But lightning dampeners? Wouldn't we already be in deep doo-doo based on the kind of crap we actually broadcast on purpose? Why not build disclaimer transmitters manned with lawyers reading liability waivers 24/7? |
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You mean like packaging warnings?
Danger: this planet contains nuts. |
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//Why not build disclaimer transmitters manned with lawyers reading liability waivers 24/7?// |
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Do we really want to risk giving them the impression that we're a planet full of lawyers? |
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//Do we really want to risk giving them the impression that we're a planet full of lawyers// |
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I have to say that if I were an alien I would be very hard pressed between running away as fast as I could and blasting the planet into atoms. |
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Go stick your head in a pig. |
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//"Hey Karg! Your intergalactic destructor beam ain't up to shit!"// |
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Don't worry; this can't be Shakespeare: it doesn't scan. So the monkeys can't write it. So we're safe. |
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"Forsooth Karg, what weapon is that of which you boast? 'Dissembler of Worlds', say you? Verily it is as a whiff of Spanish posey to a London Sewer. It is as your manhood, scarce able to ruffle the skirting of a Fleet Street crone." |
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//'Dissembler of Worlds', say you?// |
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So a planet-sized liar? Or did you mean disassembler? You know, unPresident Bush made a similar faux pas, he said "...these people are trained to disassemble. That means to not tell the truth." |
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//Go stick your head in a pig.// |
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That's not even half of it! |
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But if this is true, a similar occurrence on their side is likely. How many messages of "Dorks", "Losers", or "We've been to Uranus", were dismissed by our scientists as being static noise, and how many of them were real? |
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Probably too little too late. Given interstellar distances and the speed of light, the offending message probably went out 500 years ago to a planet 100 light years away. |
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At this very moment the Claggon Warfleet is assembled behind the dark side of the Moon, ready to avenge the now infamous: "Your father's seventh orifice makes a good home for the tentacles of a giant dodecapus". |
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I think if you set it up then generate a simulated Nuclear exchange followed by damped signal you could fool them into thinking we have annihilated our selves and that our planet is a radioactive wasteland. |
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One would expect that any advanced race would be familiar with a nuclear weapon and would recognize its signature and its implications. |
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Unless it was a race that thrived on radioactive waste... |
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well in that case we will become great friends when they arrive cause we have a lot of that around. |
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Seems to me that anyone picking up the Earth's television stations will pretty quickly conclude there is no intelligent life down here anyway. |
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Aren't there so many different sources of signal now in use (from bluetooth-style low-power short-range right up to the old AM radio 100K watt transmitters) that any beings trying to distinguish actual attempts at communication from all the "noise" would reach the same conclusion as [DrCurry]? |
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So we create some kind of gridwork in the ionosphere? Kind of like what's on the door of the microwave, only larger. |
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What conspiracy, [phlish]? |
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Nice try, [pertinax]. You're not fooling us. |
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