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  • #16
    Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
    There was a very lited amount they could transmit at the time. Now they could put the complete history of the world, and cover all the cultures and religions of the world on a few computer chips.
    That wasn't at issue.
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    • #17
      We sent porn into outer space!!!
      When I Survey....

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Faber View Post
        We sent porn into outer space!!!
        It's okay - the aliens won't know.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by QuantaFille View Post
          For intelligent life to develop, their planet would have to be virtually identical to ours, though. Only carbon based life can have the complexity needed for intelligence, and carbon based life can only survive on a planet just like our own.
          Also the thinking could be that any aliens that are alien enough to not understand/decode our messages are aliens we probably could never communicate with anyway, so why not gear our messages to the type of alien that could communicate with us. A kind of "test" built into the message.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
            There was a very lited amount they could transmit at the time. Now they could put the complete history of the world, and cover all the cultures and religions of the world on a few computer chips.
            But the idea was to make the message as easy to 'read' as possible. Aliens would not be able to read our "computer chips" - the chances they have developed the same technology as us is very unlikely, and reverse engineering a memory card is nearly impossible because you would have to destroy it to figure out how it works and would lose the data.

            The idea of the record, with instructions on how to build the player and supplying the needle was pretty brilliant.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
              That wasn't at issue.
              You still have not answered specifically what you would have put in the very limited space the technology of the time had.
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              Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
              But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

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              • #22
                Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                You still have not answered specifically what you would have put in the very limited space the technology of the time had.
                Not today, Shuny - the issue is cronyism and we aren't going down the rabbit hole. I gave you an answer that addressed the concern. Now, tell me why what was included didn't represent Earth as Sagan and his friends saw it.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                  Not today, Shuny - the issue is cronyism and we aren't going down the rabbit hole. I gave you an answer that addressed the concern. Now, tell me why what was included didn't represent Earth as Sagan and his friends saw it.
                  Failed to answer the question.
                  Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                  Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                  But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                  go with the flow the river knows . . .

                  Frank

                  I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                    Failed to answer the question.
                    Why should she deal with your irrelevant question?

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                      You still have not answered specifically what you would have put in the very limited space the technology of the time had.
                      Bacon.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                        Failed to answer the question.
                        No, question irrelevant to issue. Either show relevance or leave thread.
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                          No, question irrelevant to issue. Either show relevance or leave thread.
                          Have you been taking speech lessons from Demi?

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            Have you been taking speech lessons from Demi?
                            Tired. Not putting in effort for Shuny's stupid trick.


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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
                              Why should she deal with your irrelevant question?
                              . . . because he strongly objected without specific reason what he would have made the message contain in the limited space available at the time.

                              Actually the technologically advanced aliens on distant planets would learn far more from our radio, television, and other communication transmissions that preceded and transmitted since that the very limited brief greeting contents of the pioneer 10 space probe.
                              Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                              Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                              But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                              go with the flow the river knows . . .

                              Frank

                              I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                                . . . because he strongly objected without specific reason what he would have made the message contain in the limited space available at the time.

                                Actually the technologically advanced aliens on distant planets would learn far more from our radio, television, and other communication transmissions that preceded and transmitted since that the very limited brief greeting contents of the pioneer 10 space probe.
                                er what?

                                The Pioneer 10 only had a metal plaque on it. Voyager 1 and 2 had the record with the data on it. Teal was talking about the Voyager probes.

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