@Crazy Eddie might be interested. Otherwise, feel free to ignore me. My point is that the signal flux density is a lot greater than expected for a typical solar/stellar flare.
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Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
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I would guess Crazy Eddie since they were talking about this stuff a little ways back.
Yup, hey looks like the topic of the thread. That's just crazy talk.
That the signal is due to a stellar flare is crazy talk? Or my calculation? Or just me?
Yes, I can see that now.... tho series of posts without crazy eddie being quoted/addressed and no responses from him.
I've been having problems with using the editor in Chrome over the past couple of days. Somehow the quote got dropped. I've reinstated it.
I thought I was the only one having problems with chrome. It's gotten so annoying that I've switched back to explorer.
I believe it's the adware, which seems to produce weird side effects with text occasionally being lost.
The call from aliens appears to have emanated from a Russian water tentacle military satellite.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ource-reportedly-located-it-wasnt-the-vulcans
OR SO THEY SAY!
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ource-reportedly-located-it-wasnt-the-vulcans
OR SO THEY SAY!
I'm very sceptical about this. Microwave signal of artificial origin emanating from Earth? The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that there are no signs of intelligent life on that planet.
Interesting development.
A new bone for conspiracy theorists to chew on, until the end of time.
If I'm following your numbers correctly, that WOULD almost rule out a solar flare or CME. I don't know enough about variable starts or flare stars to guess that some other "behavior" of unstable stars might be the culprit.
OTOH, I don't know that the inverse square law would actually apply to a flare or especially a CME. Those tend to be much more directional, and their interactions with the stellar magnetic field are more complicated still. The same thing supposedly happens with gamma ray bursts, which according to theory we can only see because they occur along the magnetic poles of black holes or neutron stars that are pointed DIRECTLY AT US.
I'm suddenly thinking of the Lorentz force and wondering if the star's magnetic field isn't simply focussing the emissions of a CME in our direction as the plasma cloud moves across the system. That would make the signal flux much higher than it would be if it was emitted omnidirectionally.
That's the Russian Press pitching their own theory about it and pretending like they actually have sources to back it up. Of course, that doesn't mean their wrong.
Is it just me, or has Russia become something of a paradise of quackery these days?
FYI - It wasn't 'Demon With A Glass hand' that Ellison claimed was used as a template to 'Terminator' - but another Outer Limits episode he wrote called: 'Soldier'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)
Sorry, if I'm slow here, but I'm missing the connection to this topic.FYI - It wasn't 'Demon With A Glass hand' that Ellison claimed was used as a template to 'Terminator' - but another Outer Limits episode he wrote called: 'Soldier'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)
Edit - Ah, OK, I see what's going on.
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FYI - It wasn't 'Demon With A Glass hand' that Ellison claimed was used as a template to 'Terminator' - but another Outer Limits episode he wrote called: 'Soldier'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)
Funny thing is that I saw that episode only a few months ago. I remember noticing that the actor playing the soldier was the same one who played Kang, on TOS and DS9.
Still, aside from involving soldiers from the future this show has very little to do with terminator, no war with the machines, no cyborg, no killing of the mother of the hero before he was born. No causality loop.
Sorry, if I'm slow here, but I'm missing the connection to this topic.
Edit - Ah, OK, I see what's going on.
Sorry, we went off a little bit on a tangent here.
