freecounterpoint: Let us Travel, You and I, to a Planet Beyond Pepe's Eye

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Let us Travel, You and I, to a Planet Beyond Pepe's Eye

7 comments:

Tecumseh said...: nterestingly, Gliese 581c is so close to the Earth that if its putative inhabitants only had our level of technology, they could - just about - pick up some of our radio signals, such as the most powerful military transmitters. Quite what would happen if we for our part did receive a signal is unclear. "There is a protocol, buried away in the United Nations," says Dr Shostak. "The President would be told first, after the signal was confirmed by other observatories. But we couldn't keep such a discovery secret."

You don't say.; 4/24/2007 8:21 PM
Mr roT said...: I like the Eliot ref, AA.The more I hear of these discoveries, I feel like I'd rather be a patient, etherized upon a table.; 4/24/2007 8:28 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: AI, how long would it take for a signal to reach Gliese?; 4/24/2007 9:41 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: It depends on how many mermaids are singing each to each; 4/24/2007 10:15 PM
Mr roT said...: Mon dieu, AA. You're on a roll, but your answer should have had the following for the full erudition available:

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,; 4/25/2007 12:46 AM
Mr roT said...: Here.; 4/25/2007 12:47 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Bah, no nuggets from a poet al dante in my Lusiadas; 4/25/2007 1:16 AM

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