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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20060720/sc_space/issetibarkingupthewrongtree
I respect the work, inteligence, and dedication of Seth Shostak. He takes an area of scientific exploration that most other scientist scoff at, the exsistence of extraterrestrial life. Having said that though, for as inteligent as Mr. Shostak and the people at SETI are I find them incredibly arrogant at times. I've seen them on TV specials that deal with the issue of extraterrestrials and they seem to ridicule and deny that there is any other way we can/will/possibly already have made or make contact with beings from another world. Not only that but from what I've read, it's actually a narrow band of specific frequencies they even analyze. Mr. Shostak says this is because these are the "most likely" broadcast frequencies, but how are we to know what frequencies an alien civilization might use? Perhaps on their world they have natural phenomenon that would interfere with the frequencies we find so convenient for communications here on Earth. Not to mention that the speed at which sound travels is relatively slow. Our modern civilization in the last 100 years has gone from being unable to fly to building spy planes that are capable of 3 1/2 the times of sound and those are only the spy planes that aren't classified, who knows what top secret propulsion technology the military might have? My point being, is that in the last 100 years we've built vehicles capable of traveling multiple times the speed of sound, imagine what we'd be capable in 1000 years? Now imagine an alien specicies that's had that chance, that got a head start on evolution on us. A species 500, 1,000, 10,000, or even possibly a million years older than us, what wonders of technology might such beings be capable of? Surely it's not too hard to imagine that they'd be capable of technologies we can't even dream of right now and surely some of that technology would include propulsion technology. So is it really that hard to imagine a space faring race who's vehicles could reach Earth before their ancient radio signals did?
I respect the work, inteligence, and dedication of Seth Shostak. He takes an area of scientific exploration that most other scientist scoff at, the exsistence of extraterrestrial life. Having said that though, for as inteligent as Mr. Shostak and the people at SETI are I find them incredibly arrogant at times. I've seen them on TV specials that deal with the issue of extraterrestrials and they seem to ridicule and deny that there is any other way we can/will/possibly already have made or make contact with beings from another world. Not only that but from what I've read, it's actually a narrow band of specific frequencies they even analyze. Mr. Shostak says this is because these are the "most likely" broadcast frequencies, but how are we to know what frequencies an alien civilization might use? Perhaps on their world they have natural phenomenon that would interfere with the frequencies we find so convenient for communications here on Earth. Not to mention that the speed at which sound travels is relatively slow. Our modern civilization in the last 100 years has gone from being unable to fly to building spy planes that are capable of 3 1/2 the times of sound and those are only the spy planes that aren't classified, who knows what top secret propulsion technology the military might have? My point being, is that in the last 100 years we've built vehicles capable of traveling multiple times the speed of sound, imagine what we'd be capable in 1000 years? Now imagine an alien specicies that's had that chance, that got a head start on evolution on us. A species 500, 1,000, 10,000, or even possibly a million years older than us, what wonders of technology might such beings be capable of? Surely it's not too hard to imagine that they'd be capable of technologies we can't even dream of right now and surely some of that technology would include propulsion technology. So is it really that hard to imagine a space faring race who's vehicles could reach Earth before their ancient radio signals did?
