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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.10 23:26:00 -
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Wow, looking at the article, I was sure it was going to be a black hole. Specifically the one at the centre of the galaxy. The only other thing I can think of that NASA have been looking for for 50 years is an alien spaceship or radio transmission. That would be awesome, but I won't get my hopes up. It's probably going to be something really boring like a nebula.
OOH I just had a thought. Nemesis! The supposed dark twin of the sun - a brown dwarf star that orbits the sun with a period of 3000 years and is too dark to see most of the time. If I understand the doomsday theories surrounding it, they said it would first be spotted in 2008. OooooOOOOooooOOHH! --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.10 23:51:00 -
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Originally by: Captain Hudson internets gone nuts about planet x or nemesis, bet its just something really boring. if it was something REALLY important they would not wait till wensday.
Actually, the fact that they're waiting until Wednesday indicates it IS something really important. They're making sure they get good media coverage when they do finally announce it - make sure it doesn't get buried on the back page of the newspaper. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 10:43:00 -
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It's Discworld! They must have caught a glimpse of the turtle. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 11:16:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7 related
It's not a helicopter or plane, therefore it MUST be an alien spaceship.
Toss a hubcap in the air and take a photo of it - it will look alot like a lot of ufo photos. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 12:57:00 -
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Good grief, 7. I was laughing at the VIDEO you linked, not the concept of aliens. The video contained an outrageous logical fallacy about a minute in, and I was pointing it out.
Aliens may be among us, they may not be. I'm inclined to think they're not, but that's just me. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 13:14:00 -
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Edited by: ReaperOfSly on 11/05/2008 13:15:32
Originally by: 7shining7one7 Edited by: 7shining7one7 on 11/05/2008 13:12:06
Originally by: ReaperOfSly Good grief, 7. I was laughing at the VIDEO you linked, not the concept of aliens. The video contained an outrageous logical fallacy about a minute in, and I was pointing it out.
Aliens may be among us, they may not be. I'm inclined to think they're not, but that's just me.
the information in the linked video is presented as is, mistakes and logical errors included, you can't blame the ppl who are in the process of finding out the whole truth and nothing but the truth for doing so and making mistakes along the way, when the ones that have the competence and the know how to present it in a clear concise and precise manner to the public, are exactly the people that are lying their asses off on a daily basis and purpously misinforming in an effort to partially cover their own asses till they get the **** sorted perpetuating the inevitable logical errors that will occur in the material made by those attempting to put the pieces together.
you can think what you will but i'd seriously advice you to prepare yourself, and to do not now, or atleast sooner than later. prepare your mind for it, because there's a very real prospect in some ppl breaking down and going crazy over it when it finally comes out. and it will, it's not a matter of if, it is only a matter of when, it is inevitable.
Sorry, but the guy making that particular video was an idiot. "It's not a plane or a helicopter, so it must be of extra-terrestrial origin." That's like saying "It's not a giraffe or a hippo, so it must be an elephant."
Edit to reply to your edit: I won't go crazy if it transpires that aliens have been with us for a while. I'll be going "OMG that's so cool!" I'm just not getting my hopes up --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 13:40:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7 Edited by: 7shining7one7 on 11/05/2008 13:27:58 if you think it'll be like "oh these are fuzzy et's and come on our spaceship and go walk all over our ******* home systems" you'll be highly dissapointed.
it'll be like "we are here and you are there and we exist and have existed since you were basically nothing.. and that's that now play nice and go on about your f'ing business and stop acting like morons" an advanced civilization has no f'ing interest in a bunch of primitive morons that screw eachother over, running to their home systems or getting their advanced technology that we're not ready for.
and what do you think the corrupt bastards have been doing in the shadows, intially plotting to take over the earth with that technology before the creators of it showed up and started putting them in their place.
we're not special, no more than them, and if you think different then you'll need a reality check sometime in the future.. we're only important to them in the sense that there'd be no f'ing sense in evolution going to waste, but that's pretty much where it ends.. we are not allowed to blow eachother up and we are not allowed to mess with our sphere in such a manner that we are doing now, but after assistance has been made in that regard.. we're pretty much on our own.. to get our **** sorted and to learn things the way things are supposed to be learned, through trial and error. not by leaping into the future with technology and advanced knowledge you have no frame of reference for utilizing properly or in a good manner.
All I said was that it'd be cool. Never said I expected to gain anything.
Anyway, let's assume your initial assertion is correct. How do you know how these hypothetical aliens think? At the risk of being a Captain Obvious, they're not human. They probably don't think like us. They may well take a bunch of people back to their planet just to see what they'd do. Or give George Bush an antimatter bomb just to see what HE'D do . They may give us the cures to every known disease just because they want to be friends and we're the first sentient life they've ever encountered. Who knows? --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 13:46:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7 I'll make it short and sweet:
if they wanted us dead we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Probably true. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 15:32:00 -
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Originally by: Istvaan Shogaatsu SETI isn't NASA. It's not aliens.
Whatever it is, it's an x-ray source. This also rules out your planet X theory. If it was in visible light, Hubble would have seen it, if it was infrared, NEAR would have, but it was seen with an x-ray telescope.
Oh sh... maybe it's x-ray aliens from planet nemesis! Aghaghaghagh!
Maybe the aliens transmit messages at X-ray frequencies? --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.11 23:41:00 -
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Originally by: Two Flower I'm not sure what sort of radiation dark mater emites if any, but could be be that ? im interested to find out and looking forward to wednesday
Dark matter doesn't emit any radiation. That's why it's dark. That's why it's so damned hard to detect. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.13 23:44:00 -
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Originally by: Mulco LHC= Large Hadron Collider, some of the critics against this project claims that it can potentialy create small black holes.
Which, happily, would almost instantly evaporate in a puff of Hawking radiation --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 16:27:00 -
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Originally by: Bomberos Interesting timing
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. Linkage
This is very interesting. I'd be very inclined towards some tinfoil-hattery if I didn't know better. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:01:00 -
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Edited by: ReaperOfSly on 14/05/2008 17:01:50 OK, listening in now. Had to d/load damned Real Audio player, and all I'm getting so far is elevator music.
Edit: I will of course uninstall the program after the announcement is over --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:07:00 -
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Originally by: Amastat Edited by: Amastat on 14/05/2008 17:03:52 Everyone record the transmission in case the NSA, or just some random religious fanatic, sabotage's the broadcast!
I am recording, but I'm gonna have to crop the beginning of it because it's still this classical music stuff. And I'm pretty sure it's been longer than 1-2 minutes now. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:09:00 -
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IT STARTED!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:27:00 -
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Originally by: Namaro Edited by: Namaro on 14/05/2008 17:23:15 http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_051408.html sadly the server where the images are located is a bit overloaded :P edit: ah some pictures loaded: pic1 pic2
Wow, that later picture is pretty clear given that they think it's ~25,000 LY away --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:43:00 -
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Have they finished or should I keep recording? I can hear voices in the background. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:45:00 -
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Originally by: Xparky
Originally by: ReaperOfSly Have they finished or should I keep recording? I can hear voices in the background.
keep recording, then amplify and remove noise to get the words, i'm sure they're talking about the secret alien stuff they found
rgr --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:49:00 -
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Originally by: Amastat Well whatever it is, do post the amplified talk in the background right now later - and the guy at the end who wanted to know about viganas
I thought he said vagina too, but everyone else seems to think he said China. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:50:00 -
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Originally by: Amastat
Originally by: Rutoo
Originally by: Amastat
Originally by: Xparky
Originally by: ReaperOfSly Have they finished or should I keep recording? I can hear voices in the background.
keep recording, then amplify and remove noise to get the words, i'm sure they're talking about the secret alien stuff they found
Nah doubt that. For all we know they are talking to some security guards who had to take that guy out of the place.
This was a teleconference
Well whoever is in the background sounds like they are speaking pretty casually and its nothing top-secret, but It sounds like its clear enough where it can be amplified.
Yeah one guy was talking about getting his PKI application stamped, whatever that is. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:52:00 -
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OK either they ended it, or my connection to their server just conked out. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 17:57:00 -
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Originally by: Xparky Hopefully ReaperOfSly will post the recording somewhere so we can all hear that interesting stuff again, about the moon crickets, swoogies and vaginas. NASA rocks!
Hmm, it seems it didn't record properly. I've got the first 11 minutes, but everything after that is silent --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 18:05:00 -
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Originally by: Arron S where does real player save the recordings too?
It's in a temp folder under documents and settings/local settings/temp
I have no idea why it stopped recording. I have about 11 minutes of elevator music and people talking, then it just cuts out and the rest of the 44 minutes is silence. I didn't get the swoogie guy or the vagina guy. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 18:08:00 -
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Originally by: Frezik
Originally by: Arron S Question: He said the explosion happened 100+ years ago, if its 26,000 ly away, would'nt it take 26,000 years for the x-ray emissions to get here?
In astronomy, they like to say that an event is happening now if we're seeing it happen. There's even a school of thought that defines events as not happening until the light cone hits us. Personally I prefer not to define time that way, but will admit that it's convenient for astronomers to think in those terms.
It's actually a more natural definition of time if you think about it. That way, any wierd effects you see are not optical effects, but relativistic ones. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 18:15:00 -
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Eve-files won't let me upload the little bit that I got. Meh. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.14 18:17:00 -
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Originally by: Amastat Edited by: Amastat on 14/05/2008 18:15:08
Originally by: Arron S Edited by: Arron S on 14/05/2008 18:11:16 **** I can't find it. BAH
NASA Hackers broke into our Real Player folders for security reasons!
They certainly hacked into my recording --------------------------------------------------------------------
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ReaperOfSly
Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2008.05.30 18:30:00 -
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I'm afraid the fragment I had is gone. Operating system reinstalls can do that.
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