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Message 72791 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 9:54:06 UTC

Well, if Seti ain't down, this ain't quite the place to be, innit?
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Message 72796 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 10:56:16 UTC - in response to Message 72795.  

It is a home for some that prefer not to use the Seti boards any more.

Fair enough. I do check in once in a while to peruse.

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Message 72814 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 21:34:52 UTC

For Angerla.
For my friends.
For my not so friends.
For anybody at all that like music as much as I do.

Very old Fleetwood Mac songe.........Never going back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nkAJogQioc
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Message 72815 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 22:04:34 UTC - in response to Message 72814.  

For Angerla.
For my friends.
For my not so friends.
For anybody at all that like music as much as I do.

Very old Fleetwood Mac songe.........Never going back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nkAJogQioc


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Message 72819 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 23:29:34 UTC

Kids.................
This disconnect had made me realize what a feeble attempt this is.
Seti is a whimper in a hurricaine.

And I know that. I always have.

I do not express that on the boards, because I do wish to dishearten others.

I believe.
I always have.
I know and realize that there is a whisker of a chance in hell we could possibly find that needle in that haystack. Not likely in my lifetime.

But, if I did not contribute my resources to the attempt, how many years later would then put us? Many, I think.
I keep them going, 9 computers. 24/7. Looking. Searching.
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Message 72820 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 23:55:04 UTC

To quote the Grand Dame of seti, Dr. Jill Tarter:

"We have barely begun to search!

Consider the following experiment to answer the question of whether there are any fish in the Earth’s oceans. Fill an 8-ounce cup with water from an ocean, and look to see if you captured any fish in your cup. That experiment could work; the smallest fish is about a millimeter in size, and while you couldn’t fit a great white shark into your cup, many species of fish would fit just fine. There are no fish in your cup. What do you conclude? That there are no fish in the ocean? That you were just unlucky and scooped your cup of water from an unusually barren patch of ocean? Or that your cup is a poor tool, and that you haven’t yet sampled enough of the Earth’s oceans to draw any conclusions about the prevalence of fish?"

Mark, I do not expect to find E.T. within my life time either. There is nothing disheartening to me about that realization.

I look because it is fun to do so! That is more than enough reward for me.
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Message 72821 - Posted: 3 Oct 2016, 0:44:39 UTC
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Now here is something I will not nor shall you not see again.
A very rare interview with and about one George Harrision which also dragged in one Eric Clapton.
OH, christ.

I never knew until today how close two of the lives of my mucical wonders were.
George and Eric Clapton seem to have shared the same woman. Singular, not plural. One special woman.
Her name was Olivia Harrison, not related by birth to George.

Here is the link./////////// Be prepared, thia ia nor youe uaual interview.
I have not looked to see how old thia may be.
Whatever the age, it is still very relevent to MY life, as this was occuring in my day and age.\\ And they were both idols at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L132-4rYlXQ

Oh, meow.
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Message 72828 - Posted: 3 Oct 2016, 8:15:31 UTC

...the security agencies would likely block it from public knowledge.

LOL, my friend!!! Conspiracy theorists (and I know you are not one of those!!!) often say just that. To them I always query, in this day of totally rampant social media, how long do you think a secret of that import could actually be kept?

A alien signal, if detected, would have to be confirmed and re-confirmed by several teams of scientists all over the globe. It would only take one tiny leak before, about ten seconds later, the whole world knew.
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Message 72834 - Posted: 3 Oct 2016, 12:46:10 UTC - in response to Message 72828.  
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LOL, my friend!!! Conspiracy theorists (and I know you are not one of those!!!) often say just that


I read the posts on site's like Above Top Secret belive me if you want a really good laff at some of the things posted have a look .

Everyone knows America think's it runs the world ( defo would like to , just Like Merkel want's to with Europe ( Hitler by "different" means ;-) ) so of course they would try and take control of the situation to their advantage ;-) )

Ain't like Berkeley don't have a "relationship" with the C.I.A do they , or would you like links? and they int from conspiricy theory websites , plenty of proof on you tube , google ;-)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=UCLA+%26+the+C.I.A&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=JFHyV_DRMO7W8gfjz6-4Aw#nfpr=1&q=Berkeley+university+%26+the+C.I.A

"good friends" with Tim Lehry wern't they Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
( operation Julie ) stopped that over here but "dots" were good hehe ;-)

crap about the moon landing never happened


Think if it never happend the USSR might of just said sum thing ;-) , left @ east gate hehe

the Pope and other religious leaders might have some difficult questions to answer!


The Pope has the first page of the bible locked away in the Vatican archives and it goes summut like this

"all people in this book are fictional , any resembleance to people, living or dead is purelly coincidental "

;-) ROFPMSL
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Message 72840 - Posted: 3 Oct 2016, 14:41:41 UTC - in response to Message 72834.  

The Pope has the first page of the bible locked away in the Vatican archives and it goes summut like this

"all people in this book are fictional , any resembleance to people, living or dead is purelly coincidental "

;-) ROFPMSL

ROFLMAO

Just need Wikileaks to grab a copy.
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Message 72873 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 7:39:51 UTC
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Every religion there is in the world is based upon that their God created our heaven and earth and the stars in the firmament etc. If the world knew about ET the Pope and other religious leaders might have some difficult questions to answer! Bear in mind 90% of the 7 Billion people on this planet subscribe to some religion or another. If all that collapsed in a flash you'd have a lot of rather unsettled people.


Although I do not have the gift of faith, I sincerely doubt that the discovery of an E.T. signal would crash all the world's religions. I think that confirmed existence of E.T. could be easily incorporated into most world religions. If one's religion involves the belief that god created the heavens and the earth... well, wouldn't E.T. just be seen as yet another glorious creation of god?

For example: http://www.universetoday.com/44713/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life/

As a species, we tend to be quite good at rationalization and tweaking our dogma so that it continues to work for us.
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Message 72881 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 16:17:27 UTC

The outrage has begun and Einstein has no BRP4G data.
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Message 72882 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 16:52:13 UTC - in response to Message 72879.  

That time of the year for Hurracanes , same every year in't it
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Message 72889 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:22:49 UTC

What, no-one here?

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Message 72893 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:36:45 UTC - in response to Message 72881.  

The outrage has begun and Einstein has no BRP4G data.

Einstein doesn't have BRP6 either! (Which is the ONLY thing that the MAC would pick up; even though I had EVERYTHING but CPU checked to be accepted...) (My Win XP system is getting Arecibo 1.52 Beta Units from Einstein.)

I have a handful of BRP6 on the MAC that will finish sometime tonight. Then the MAC is out of work! :-O As long as the 1.52 Beta Units keep going, Exeter should remain crunching.


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Message 72894 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:38:53 UTC - in response to Message 72881.  
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The outrage has begun and Einstein has no BRP4G data.



Einstein doesn't have BRP6 either!


Boo Hoo how will you all cope :-)
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Message 72895 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:43:37 UTC

In other words they all had a good talk about it but nothing has changed!

Because it did not need to change yet. My point was only that human beings have the capacity to tweak dogma without upsetting the apple cart.


...No evidence for one shred of it...

Of course, because it is a matter of "faith". Faith is something you believe in without needing, or perhaps even wanting evidence. That is why it is called a "gift".


I would also expect a big change from belief in Creationism to Evolution, and the realisation that Darwin was right all along.

Unless I am confusing my upbringing, I believe that the Catholic Church is ok with evolution. Sure it took them a couple of centuries to get there, but as far as I can recall, faith is considered to be compatible with science (...with all apologies to Galileo for having the misfortune to have lived in a time before the Catholic Church got more comfy-cozy with accepted science principles!)

Sure there are some religious fundamentalist sects, across many different religions, that involve quite literal interpretation of their holy scriptures, but I think the Catholic Church got over that quite some time ago.

(Do we have any Catholic priests or nuns in the house? Correct me, please, if I am wrong about this.)


Anyway...

... Got to keep the sheeple happy. ...

That was unkind; and I do hope that on some level "New Chris" recognized that.

I have long thought that the capacity to have faith is something adaptive that our species developed. Most people on the globe, historically and to this day, have had some sense of faith - whether they worship the wind, ascribe qualities to the constellations or pray to an earthly fertility goddess. The cast of characters playing god or gods differs across cultures and changes across time, but the fact that most human cultures tend to HAVE religious beliefs does not change much. Man has always had a relationship with god(s).

The gift of faith shields one, to some degree, from life's deepest despairs and from life's greatest fears. Religion can give a person a structure to make sense of perceived disorder. Religion can give a person hope in the face of hopelessness. A relationship with god can give one joy... or so I've been told.

Chris, instead of calling those with the gift of faith "sheeple", perhaps we should instead agree that you and I have "defective gene mutations" in that we are missing something that comes so easily to most other humans and that serves most human beings quite well. Do keep in mind, my friend, that mutations are FAR more likely to be disadvantageous, than to be advantageous.

Good grief! Only you, "New Chris", can get under my collar enough to motivate me crawl up onto a soapbox to defend religion!!!
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Message 72897 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:45:34 UTC - in response to Message 72896.  

Oh us with real lives will do, Seti is only part of it not all of it!


+ infinity to that ;-)
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Message 72898 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 19:49:07 UTC - in response to Message 72894.  

The outrage has begun and Einstein has no BRP4G data.



Einstein doesn't have BRP6 either!


Boo Hoo how will you all cope :-)

Some will just hold their breath until their face turns purple, that often works.
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