If people are sending decrypted messages towards the stars, what makes them think that if?
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They aren't encrypted messages they are basic mathematical codes like prime numbers, which is a Universal constant.  If aliens were to intercept the messages they should understand them whatever language they speak in.
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Its just another trick to exploit weak mind people.\n\nTarot card, Cold reading, They are all the same.\n\nReading the Star to tell the future is just myth. I don't believe in myth.
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Without a doubt. Seeing all those stars in the sky.. One of them somewhere has to hold some kind of life. But I don't believe they travel to earth. No ET is phoning home LOL
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There is a woman scientist now exploring an indentation of rock (forget where) who claims there is evidence that just about everything, including and especially human beings, are from outer space.  She has been denied funding repeatedly, she says, because of bias and religious protection.  I wish I could recall the name of the show...it was on The Discovery Channel about a month ago.  Pretty interesting premise for those of us that do not subscribe to the available written texts concerning how life came to be on this planet.  Honestly tho, I don't think we will know any time soon.  In the case that the major religions are wrong, everything we know would be upturned and there would most likely be chaos among all people.  Maybe it's better if we're left to wonder.
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Hi there!  I'm a physics and astronomy student, so, while I'm not the authority on the subject, I can tell you what my current understanding is:\n\nIt really all comes down to cost in my opinion.  We aren't sending astronauts to Mars primarily because it would cost a lot to get them there with current technologies and it would still take a while for the trip (it took about 7 months for the Mars rovers to get there).\n\nSome people also think it is unsafe because we haven't sent humans out nearly that far yet.  Messages would also take at least 8 minuets to get a response (I think Mars is about 4 light minuets away so it would take as long to transmit a signal to Earth and just as long for the response to get back).  That's kind of a pain but not a big problem in my mind.\n\nAs for sending probes further out, this is indirectly related to cost.  We are still only able to move so fast.  You can blame this on reduced funding for NASA if you like (or closed minded scientists perhaps).  \n\nWe have sent a few probes out to explore the outer planets of our own solar system but we can't expect to be exploring other stars and solar systems anytime soon because even the next closest star system is about 4.3 light years away.  If we could travel at the speed of light (which we definitely could not with current technology) it would take 4.3 years to get there.  (Using the relationship for Mars from earlier I'd guess that this means it would take oh...162,540 years (really rough estimate assuming I did the math correctly) with our current abilities, so sending humans would be silly since we rarely make it past 100).  This is connected to funding because, in theory, if we had more money we could come up with and actually use better ideas for space exploration, including faster means of travel.\n\nFinally, we can explore "visually".  We can collect different types of light (like visual light, infrared, x-ray, and ultra violet) and learn a lot about our universe that way.  Most of what we know about our universe comes from local collection and interpretation of this (like with Hubble).  This field is progressing at a reasonable rate as we developer better equipment for viewing very distant things in great detail.  It could also benefit from increased funding though.\n\nIn retrospect, I suppose that money might be the root of the issue, but until we figure out how to jet through space more quickly, so is time.
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I have done some research on this in the past. There is one answer i believe in.  They got tired of the up keep of there calender.  They also thought that there was going to be someone (a Mayan) that would be here and keep it going. There is nothing going to happen in the STARS.
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I think it's very likely there is. Whether it's intellient, primitive or a little of both, I'm not sure. But if they are intelligent and they don't know we're here, they will eventually. We've been sending out radio waves for at least a hundred years and they've been travelling out into space since then. But when you consider the vastness of space they haven't gone very far. So I'd say it would be millions maybe billions before there's any contact because of the great distances and messages at this point can't go any faster than the speed of light. But millions of years from now, assuming humanity makes it that far, we'll be living on another solar system because by that time our sun will have died and we'll need another place to live. Who knows where that'll be and how such a mass transport will be organized. Maybe at that point space travel will be as common as driving to the grocery store. Or maybe it'll be a privilege only enjoyed by the rich. Who knows where we're headed. Anyway, that's what I think.
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One day, a French spy received a coded message from an American spy claiming it came directly from President Bush. It read: S370HSSV-0773H. \n\nThe spy was stumped, so he sent it to his boss at the agency. His boss was stumped too, so he sent it to the Russians for decoding. \n\nThe Russians couldn't solve it either, so they asked the Germans. \n\nThe Germans, having received this same message during WWII from the Americans, suggested turning it upside down \n\n(sombody sent this one to me)
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1. your answer may be outside known channels.\n2. If the only way to get a message to someone is through a long set of links the message has a good chance of getting garbled.\n3. If there is a set of constraints and rules governing what is allowed to go through the channels important information will never be allowed in.\n4.a:If the channels flow through a pyramidal structure with new untrained empolyees at the bottom and the CEO/president at the top messages from a large workforce could be screened out and never seen. b: those at the top would not have time to look at all messages even if they were unscreened.\n5. Language is a channel of communication. If you don't have an interpreter available the amount of information able to flow will be very small.\n6. Any channel of communication that relys on infrastucture ie: the internet,the telephone has at least 2 disavatages: the infrasturcture can be broken( the power goes out, the computer is dropped out the window, trees fall on a telephone line...ect.) also the security of the message is in doubt(black hackers,wiretaps,paranoid goverments...ect.)\n\nHope some of those helped.
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Are we alone? Probably not. It would be fairly conceited to think otherwise. What is the 'grand secret' the government doesn't want us to know? I really doubt there is any secret. I don't believe any foreign intelligent life has ever visited the earth. Frankly, if they have the technology to cover the vast distances to visit us, then they would have no interest in doing so. If it was the land they were interested in, then we would not be hear anymore. They probably could anihalate us in the blink of an eye.
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Since the dawn of time encryption has been the most sought after form of information transmission, this can be done through various means. One of my favorite comes from roman times when they would use a strip of paper wound on a cylinder to write a message, then send the message to the intended receiver who had a cylinder of the same exact diameter. anyone intercepting these messages would need to have an exact diameter cylinder to even attempt to read the message, so you can imagine how for it's time this was a very sophisticated method of encryption, hell it would even baffle the majority of the population today!!!
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They're thinking ahead!\n\nCommon sense tells us that we will inevitably destroy this planet, so we're going to need another planet to destroy in the not too distant future.\n\nCome on, man, don't tell me you don't get it.
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How in the world would anyone except them know that??? And what would make you think about it??
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lol I can't believe you though of that question. They have other things in mind other than sex.  They are thinking about space stuff which is more fascinating than being on earth and they'll problaby forget about sex. Men can't be that horny or are they? They'll  problably do it with a martian or something.
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There are just making that up! Really how could that be possible... GOD only knows what will happend to us! Not those stupid CHAIN LETTERS. They're just making that up to be scared and you'll pass it and the CHAIN LETTER will get popular!! This is just nonsense whatever dummy message... Don't believe in those things. \n\nMy classmate receive a so called CHAIN LETTER, and it says "PASS THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE and if you don't, you'll die!" My classmate just ignored it! Nothing happened to her!! \n\nChain Letters are Plain Letters with SCARY, FUN anD Some Stuff in them that make your guts come out!! It is just a funny joke that people like to do!! Don't get carried away!! :)
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They do not know how to do that.\n\nScientists do not know of any other universe or dimension, much less how to go there. They only hypothesize about such things using mathematical equations.
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Many people like to force feed their beliefs to others. Weather it be opinions in politics, Religious beliefs or other common beliefs. some of them like to make groundless assaults on other peoples views just to make them feel better about their own. its called passion, and unfortunatly we all have something we are passionate about ...\n\nbest way is to ignore them.\n\n\nas for my belief in astrology, Predictions from Transits are a part of astrology. and for the most part true, however it usualy gets lost in media because they try to generalize it for the masses only using one planet of the 10 and none of the houses. making there predictions limited and the explinations very vague. the personality indicators from birth charts are great it describes me perfectly.