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To: Elllk who wrote (80715)	6/2/2000 10:18:00 PM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You're a little early Elllk. Delbert doesn't usually show for another hour or so. Peace, Bro. M

To: Elllk who wrote (80715)	6/2/2000 10:24:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not personally in favor of trying to contact other life forms. Considering how we "manage" lower life forms I am not sure why we (as humans) want to contact higher life forms- or even other life forms on a par with ourselves. Why would you want to contact Extra-Terrestrials when you have no idea what they are like? Basically we're hanging a sign on our planet that says "Eat Me". Literally.

To: Elllk who wrote (80715)	6/2/2000 11:03:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Elllk, A satellite to where? Putting it into orbit around the Earth or Sun would serve no purpose in letting another civilization know that we are here. One that escapes our solar system would take about 30,000 years to reach the nearest star using our present technology, and it probably would not have an ETI associated with it. To just let it drift aimlessly in space like a bottle in the cosmic ocean doesn't make sense because it would be extremely unlikely that it would be found. It makes more sense to direct our messages towards an ETI society after first monitoring them for an appropriate period of time, and then responding when there is a consensus on what to say. I think that we will have an answer to whether we are alone in less than 50 years, and that the answer will be that the Universe is full of intelligent life. What we will have to deal with is that almost any ETI life that we are able to monitor will almost certainly be far more advanced than we are. They will at least have to have the ability to send powerful radio or laser signals and have the ability to detect ETI life elsewhere in the Universe, an ability that is just in it's infancy here.

To: Elllk who wrote (80715)	6/3/2000 10:37:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I see I've been anticipated by my colleague X, but I am very worried that our century of electromagnetic noisiness is like a lamb bleating in the African night. If you want to read one scenario of how this can play out, I highly recommend "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear. Maybe we should fake the EM noise of a global thermonuclear war, then communicate strictly by non-broadcast methods, like wire or fiber. Just to divert the interest of cosmic hyenas.