I'm not saying its Aliens....

[extraT]

But The Scientists are saying they've picked up a mystery radio signal, "alien" in origin (i.e not man made, but lets be honest, probably not from little green men), heard live for the first time. Probably from a black hole or something similar.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/1135...

[Eric Mc]

It's a Terry Wogan broadcast from 1973 that has just completed a lap of the known universe - proving that the universe is infinite but unbounded.

[Simpo Two]

Infinity would have to be unbounded wouldn't it?

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Infinity would have to be unbounded wouldn't it?

You could drive around in a circle til infinity - and never leave a limited area.

[Jinx]

Eric Mc said:

It's a Terry Wogan broadcast from 1973 that has just completed a lap of the known universe - proving that the universe is infinite but unbounded.

Explains why no one can understand a word of it......

Only kidding Eric - Half my family speak with a heavy Irish accent (or should that be Iroish accent)

[Eric Mc]

Jinx said:

Eric Mc said:

It's a Terry Wogan broadcast from 1973 that has just completed a lap of the known universe - proving that the universe is infinite but unbounded.

Explains why no one can understand a word of it......

Only kidding Eric - Half my family speak with a heavy Irish accent (or should that be Iroish accent)

That's what crossed my mind too.

[DonnyMac]

The article says the radio waves could have taken as long as a decade to reach us, it also mentions it is believed they originated 5.5 billion light years away.

Are radio waves not bound by C?

[Laplace]

DonnyMac said:

The article says the radio waves could have taken as long as a decade to reach us, it also mentions it is believed they originated 5.5 billion light years away.

Are radio waves not bound by C?

I think you've just picked it up wrong.

The refrence to decades was in relation to when they generally pick these waves up after they have occurred, from sifting through old data. In this instance they caught them in the act.

[extraT]

DonnyMac said:

The article says the radio waves could have taken as long as a decade to reach us, it also mentions it is believed they originated 5.5 billion light years away.

Are radio waves not bound by C?

Just because you mentioned 5.5 billion LYs away...

If a civilization were 65million light years away and looking at is, they would see Dinosaurs! Does that mean the radio waves were produced by a civilization 5.5 billion LYs more advanced then us? Maybe they have been trying to establish contact and this is he first time our tech is advanced enough to pick not up! :winkysmily:

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

You could drive around in a circle til infinity - and never leave a limited area.

A good point. I never realised that in one respect my model railway was as big as the universe

[Eric Mc]

If you sat on one of your locos - would you experience time dilation?

[evenflow]

I think if you sat on a model locomotive you'd experience another kind of dilation!

[Asterix]

You'd be chuffed though...

[central]

[SpeckledJim]

Asterix said:

You'd be chuffed though...

Chuffed to bits if you got it wrong.

[Pupp]

Looks like we might try yelling into space a bit more actively... good idea? Prof Hawking seems to still think not

[Some Gump]

Imo yelling into space saying "look over here!" Is the equivalent to waving about in the jungle in the vague hope that everything you meet is cuddly and nice, not poisonous, agressive and bitey.

As a species, man is extremely arrogant - natural as we're the ones in charge of the world. We even assume we can control the weather. The assumption that any alien species would be nice and friendly / not as clever as us / wouldn't come and experiment / bully us / fancy the look of our resources is just daft.

[jmorgan]

Problem is until we actually meet someone/thing/blob/ etc., we have no idea. Best keep mum in the universe until we know more. Can't do much about the atmosphere and emissions but better keep the shouting to a minimum.

Unfortunately scientists and be a bit up themselves at times.

[stew-S160]

"We come in peace...DIE DIE DIE"

[Halmyre]

We come to serve humanity, with fava beans and a nice Chianti.