>Adrian
Humans are quite good at making fools of themselves (UFO cults,
extremist religions, millennium fever, etc, etc, ad nausium) - we
don't want to make galactic fools of ourselves!
>Walt
A little possible fairytale:
But what about those academic fools who kept Earth
from joining the galactic-club for 200 (hypothetical) years
because they created international recommendations forbidding
transmission of messages into space. Earth wasn't invited,
because, well everyone knows that being communicative is a sign
of intelligence, and they weren't intelligent, were they?
Ok, ok, back to reality.
Ever attend a party where everybody is afraid to get up and
dance? Everybody is sitting, no talking, no CONTACT.
We need to transmit to stir the pot, when we do...things will
(probably) start happening, its an ancient behavioral rule.
Let's say hi to them, let them know we are in the game.
Walt Williams, 99.04.02
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From: "Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes" <awk-h@dolwar.demon.co.uk>
To: "'Richard Burke-Ward'" <richard@burke-ward.demon.co.uk>,
"'SETI League'" <seti@sni.net>
Subject: RE: SETI The Extracom Project
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:54:42 +0100
It's the quality of the message, or rather, the potential lack of
it, that bothers me.
I think that as we now move into an era of listening, we need to
think about transmitting - seems rather selfish just to listen -
but what we send needs to be quality.
Humans are quite good at making fools of themselves (UFO cults,
extremist religions, millennium fever, etc, etc, ad nausium) - we
don't want to make galactic fools of ourselves!
Adrian
Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes
Argus Station (currently under construction) IO73vf95
VOLCOR:Cymru/Wales
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seti@lists.sni.net [mailto:owner-seti@lists.sni.net]On
> Behalf Of Richard Burke-Ward
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 1:56 AM
> To: SETI League
> Subject: Re: SETI The Extracom Project
>
>
> Dear Paul -
>
> > Here is yet another organization "launching the first private
> >extraterrestrial communication initiative." Note that they plan to
> >*transmit* on 1420 MHz! Tip of the iceberg, I'm afraid.
>
> I am sure I'm being ridiculously naive, but I am not very
> clear on what
> there is to object to here - aside from the obvious, which is
> producing
> noise on a band we are all listening to. Are you objecting purely to
> that - in which case, I see the point - or to the fact that
> they propose
> to broadcast at all?
>
> And if it's the former, isn't this a potentially lethal argument to
> microwave SETI? You can't look and broadcast simultaneously
> - it's more
> efficient to listen than to broadcast - so who's going to
> broadcast? And
> if no one's going to broadcast, why listen? ET would have the same
> interference problem that we do. How would they decide which way to
> jump? My bet is that they would ultimately fall back on the
> listening
> strategy.
>
> What a depressing image - thousands of lonely civilisations, all
> desperate to hear something, none of them daring to transmit
> for fear of
> interfering with their ability to listen. Everyone hiding,
> no seeker -
> and by accident at that.
>
> Richard
>