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Offline sam

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Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« on: September 28, 2010, 01:53 »
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In the 1997 movie "Contact" (based on the novel by Carl Sagan), actress Jodie Foster plays an astrophysicist devoted to SETI -- the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Despite doubting colleagues, she vigilantly monitors signals from radio telescopes aimed at thousands of nearby sun-like stars, hoping to receive a message from alien life forms. While the large dish telescope in the movie is real (the movie was filmed on location at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico), the contact isn't. So far, the skies remain silent.

http://www.physorg.com/news204827814.html

.. well actually they detect alien life in that movie with the VLA.. not Arecibo.. oh well.

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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2010, 08:56 »
I'm certain they will find hundreds of Near Earth's.  But I'll bet they don't find any alien lifeforms!   ;D
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2010, 13:16 »
pessimist.
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2010, 13:48 »
Surely, they only have to go to Cardiff on a Friday night?  :dunno: :)x
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 14:21 »
no, that's just inferior life  ;)
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2010, 16:56 »
;D
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2010, 17:59 »
Quote from: sam on September 28, 2010, 13:16
pessimist.

Realist!   ;D

Oh and  :bartmoon: to Simon.   ;D
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Re: Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2010, 18:07 »
:pmsl:
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