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post Feb 3 2008, 04:36 AM
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NASA to beam Beatles song to North Star...

Hey NASA, please waste more of our money and radio telescope resources. Sheesh, what purpose does this serve?
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post Feb 3 2008, 04:36 AM
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post Feb 3 2008, 10:53 AM
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They could at least choose something displaying more taste. I'm not too keen on the Beatles being ambassadors for humanity.
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post Feb 4 2008, 03:58 PM
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Well, Polaris (The Current North Star) is a population I star.
Same as the sun. So its not a retarded idea; albeit a stupid one.

What is everyone's damn obsession with sending these songs into space....
I mean.. its going to take 431 years to reach Polaris... Even if there was something there advanced enough, and who happens to use similar radio technology to us; we will have changed a lot by then as a civilization.
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post Feb 4 2008, 04:41 PM
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...NASA, please waste more of our money and radio telescope resources...


Question: Is it a money waste just to pop a CD into the equipment and play a single song?

Every group with a purpose that will take a long time to fulfill it stands the change of losing sight of it's purpose without an event that brings gets them to stop and remind them why they are there.

For this reason they invest their time and money to events that will point out where they started and how far they got. This reminder is in fact a look back at the road they have traveled, so that they can see where they started and where they are now. This way they will be reminded of the direction they are going and not wander too far astray.

It is done for the people that have been around and may have lost sight of things. It is done for the new guys that may not have the group feel for what they are apart of.

They do all this without reading my post about why they are doing it. They feel that is what they should do and I agree.
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post Feb 5 2008, 09:23 AM
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Are you aware of just how much even a few minutes of Radio Telescope time costs??!! Are you aware that those 3 wasted minutes of music are 3 minutes we AREN'T surveying the sky for signals?
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post Feb 5 2008, 01:29 PM
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I mean.. its going to take 431 years to reach Polaris... Even if there was something there advanced enough, and who happens to use similar radio technology to us; we will have changed a lot by then as a civilization.

We might even overtake it before it gets there.
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post Feb 5 2008, 03:45 PM
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Are you aware of just how much even a few minutes of Radio Telescope time costs??!! Are you aware that those 3 wasted minutes of music are 3 minutes we AREN'T surveying the sky for signals?


Lol, you should go work for NASA. Get them moving faster.

Oh, and the answer is yes, I do know how much it takes.
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post Feb 6 2008, 12:43 PM
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We might even overtake it before it gets there.


Waves travel at light speed in a Vacuum... So, I'm scientifically inclined to say, Not likely.
(Though maybe, if we make major changes to our science understanding. (And quick; If it took us 200 years to figure out a way to travel faster, even if by then we could only reach 2x the speed, it would be a very close race as we'd be arriving within a short time of each other.)
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post Feb 6 2008, 01:41 PM
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Xeno posts: Waves travel at light speed in a Vacuum... So, I'm scientifically inclined to say, Not likely.
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Yeah well… Special relativity does not forbid the existence of particles that travel faster than light at all times. ~rore


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