What if its taken as a threat?

sublimize: What if its taken as a threat?

Then they'll be here in 862 years.

The song will be aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light years away from Earth, and it will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, Nasa said.

Deep Space will then transmit a RIAA warning for Polaris residents to not engage in unlicensed music sharing.

I've gotta ask...

That "Life After People" special suggested that the notion that there's an ever-expanding "bubble" of radio signals leaving Earth that will be around long after we're extinct isn't true - that these signals degrade within 1-2 light years.

Anyone know if this is true?

Juansmith: I've gotta ask...

That "Life After People" special suggested that the notion that there's an ever-expanding "bubble" of radio signals leaving Earth that will be around long after we're extinct isn't true - that these signals degrade within 1-2 light years.

Anyone know if this is true?

I believe it's that the actual signal will degrade into an unrecoverable mess of pieces of waves, but then there are patterns in the wavelength that are not produced naturally, by radioactive decay - products of certain prime numbers and stuff that are all electronic. That's what SETI searches for, not just waves, but strings of data that can't be coincidental.

Also I'm only going on what I've seen other people say on the Internet, what I've passively heard from Discovery Channel shows in the background, and an elective astronomy class in which I got an A-.

dudemanbro: But hell, if they had to choose one song to do this with, they could have done worse.

William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man?

Is okay with it.

/Maybe get Disaster Area to cover it, tho

Sykosonik: dudemanbro: But hell, if they had to choose one song to do this with, they could have done worse.

William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man?

Cotton Eye Joe.


Now really entertaining would be finding a race of intelligent life who consider Squarepusher to be danceable. ^_^

Wow.
Their taste in music is just as outdated as their engineering practices.

Well, what would you send, Socodog? The Killers? The Arctic Monkeys? 50 Cents?

Me, personally, i'd send BT's "Lullaby for Gaia," but that's just me.

What a bleeding waste of tax dollars. The Beatles stink. I view this as a declaration of intergalactic war !!! What do you think will happen when those listening are Stones fans???

finalquest: What a bleeding waste of tax dollars. The Beatles stink. I view this as a declaration of intergalactic war !!! What do you think will happen when those listening are Stones fans???


Like we used to all say in upstate NY: the bleeding Beatles stink. All of us under the bridge where we all live agree.

GaryPDX: Juansmith: I've gotta ask...

That "Life After People" special suggested that the notion that there's an ever-expanding "bubble" of radio signals leaving Earth that will be around long after we're extinct isn't true - that these signals degrade within 1-2 light years.

Anyone know if this is true?

I don't know if it's true but that was a very cool show. Very interesting.

THIS

finalquest: What a bleeding waste of tax dollars. The Beatles stink. I view this as a declaration of intergalactic war !!! What do you think will happen when those listening are Stones fans???

You can't always get what you want.

skinink: They should beam "Revolution No. 9", just so any intelligent life out there thinks that Earthlings are complete idiots.
Either that, or we can send Yoko into space personally to deliver the single to the Universe.

Agreed. Send the shrew into space.

I personally think we should beam "Hell Awaits" by Slayer. Metal heads of the universe unite!

alien #1 "It appears to be an encrypted message sent from the third planet."

alien #2 "Can you decifer it?"

alien#1 "I...am...the...walrus...coo...coo...ca...choo."

alien #2 "Let me know if they send something intelligent ."

How about something goofy, like The Who's Heinz Baked Beans?

Or how about something tounge-in-cheek prophetic, such as Johnny Cash's Sunday Morning Coming Down since civilization is probably headed for a hangover due to binge behavior?

/Wearing my cleanest dirty shirt right now...

Ow My Balls:

You can't always get what you want.

But if you try sometimes...

It will only be streamed in Quicktime and if the aliens don't have a current copy, they can wait 600 years to download the update.

Jai Guru Deva Om!

tehotherbilly: alien #1 "It appears to be an encrypted message sent from the third planet."

alien #2 "Can you decifer it?"

alien#1 "I...am...the...walrus...coo...coo...ca...choo."

alien #2 "Let me know if they send something intelligent ."

yay.

Still no cure for space shuttles disintegrating upon re-entry. Hey NASA, you can be cute without wasting tax dollars on such a stupid idea.

Interstellar Overdrive. Hopefully it will confuse the aliens as much as it does me.

Ow My Balls: Or how about something tounge-in-cheek prophetic, such as Johnny Cash's Sunday Morning Coming Down The Man Comes Around

FTFMe

ludicrous speed!!!

optras: Interstellar Overdrive. Hopefully it will confuse the aliens as much as it does me.

Yes, the lyrics are bewildering.

ET phones in with request...

I hope the beings that hear this have developed some form of photon-i.p. blocking, otherwise the RIAA will be all over those space pirates.

What I think would be cool is they actually aim it at a star that might have habitable planets.

Because Polaris isn't one. It's a Population I Cepheid variable.

/approves
//obscure?

Anything by Kevin Cronin would have been better. Or Mozart.

We had better hope, for the sake of humanity, that aliens like boy bands.

Sykosonik: dudemanbro: But hell, if they had to choose one song to do this with, they could have done worse.

William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man?

At least this wasn't beamed out deliberately.... Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (new window)

Juansmith: I've gotta ask...

That "Life After People" special suggested that the notion that there's an ever-expanding "bubble" of radio signals leaving Earth that will be around long after we're extinct isn't true - that these signals degrade within 1-2 light years.

Anyone know if this is true?

The signal becomes weaker with distance, essentially because the same amount of energy must be spread out over a larger area (the two-dimensional surface of the bubble is larger the further out from Earth you go), and a weaker signal is more difficult to make out over background noise. Presumably, 1-2 light years is the limit of what current human technology could decipher. It seems reasonable that more advanced technology would be able to make out more distant (and thus weaker) signals, extending the size of the "bubble".

However, most likely they will just ignore us anyway, since we're made of meat.

We have nothing better to say to the universe? Put your favorite CDs away grandpa and come up with a better message.

Juansmith: I've gotta ask...

That "Life After People" special suggested that the notion that there's an ever-expanding "bubble" of radio signals leaving Earth that will be around long after we're extinct isn't true - that these signals degrade within 1-2 light years.

Anyone know if this is true?

Yes, but that refers to our signals that "leak" into space; this one is deliberately being jetted out there. I'd like to think there would be less degradation.

I'm just a little concerned that apparently there is a "Deep Space Network" that has been in place for 45 years??

I think NASA should beam Jenna Jameson's genetic sequence.

Helter Skelter would have been more appropriate.....