Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
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There's never a Romulan senator around when you need one.
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Because there is no reason whatsoever, beyond baseless paranoia and conspiracy, to give credence to that idea.
That's what most people say before discovering that something is a hoax.
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That makes no sense at all in this context.
All alien stories are mistakes or a hoaxes until proven otherwise. So far, it's been 100% mistake or hoax. So, like the OPERA FTL nutrino experiment between CERN and LNGS, or the proof of cosmic inflation from the BICEP2 experiment, both not long ago, the first thing you look at is how they got it wrong. That's science. "Faith" in degrees isn't science.
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I know about hoaxes. What I'm talking about is @locutus101's comment that the scientists could have perpetrated a hoax, rather than made a mistake. I explained that something like that was more akin to paranoia and conspiracy talk. That it was baseless speculation, which it is.
The first debunking article link made an appearance on page 3. I guess eyeballs glassed over upon reading ". . .snopes. . ."
My comment regarded your statement here:
Yep, well there you have it. Though a quick summary of the facts in the text of the post would have helped more than just a link. People are lazy.
That's a very compelling argument.
It doesn't prevent you from being wrong, though.
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I suspect it's a cock-up rather than a conspiracy. The military of any country don't like to give information away, however tangential and obscure, as to what they might be up to and might have tried to suppress publication for that reason. 11 GHz is in the X band used for satellite communication and synthetic aperture radar.
You mean that they are blundering fools.
Over excitable, perhaps. No matter how rational and level headed you believe yourself to be, the exciting prospect that you might be the first person to ever receive a communication from an alien civilisation might get the better of you. Not good for career prospects or peer credibility if you're wrong, of course...
So we shouldn't bother searching because they're not already here harvesting our organs, despoiling our womenfolk, or generally getting in the way wearing their loud clothes and being rude to waiters?
Pretty much.
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Rationality is often compelling.
Nothing prevents me from being wrong. Nothing prevents anyone from being wrong, even Hawking has been wrong in his life. I'm not sure what you're going for here.
Probably. Of course, it could be like the beginning of The Arrival, where Zane was listening on a frequency he wasn't supposed to. We should probably call Charlie Sheen.
Have you seen how Russians drive? It's like that.
The Italians are worse.
