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BBC 4 Tonight 9pm Alien life on extraterrestrial planet?
Coyotejohn1947
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Possible revelation tonight that a planet in a distant solar system (dubbed Cuculus/i> by astronomers) may support life.
Messages received in the last few days suggest that the sender is trying to make contact with a group of people on Earth but the astronomers are mystified by the content which appears, in near perfect English, to be making some kind of statement or placatory peace gesture.
A leading researcher for SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) who has studied the message stated:
This is the first time this is being made public but we have received contact before from this same source and we have known for some time that Cuckoo KM to give it its full non-Latin name, was capable of sending messages but these were invariably confused, often making wild promises of some kind, often out of touch with any coherent sense of reality and sometimes with only a tenuous grasp of word meanings. This may account for the latest transmission which includes the words 'We apologise for our mistakes'.
Messages received in the last few days suggest that the sender is trying to make contact with a group of people on Earth but the astronomers are mystified by the content which appears, in near perfect English, to be making some kind of statement or placatory peace gesture.
A leading researcher for SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) who has studied the message stated:
This is the first time this is being made public but we have received contact before from this same source and we have known for some time that Cuckoo KM to give it its full non-Latin name, was capable of sending messages but these were invariably confused, often making wild promises of some kind, often out of touch with any coherent sense of reality and sometimes with only a tenuous grasp of word meanings. This may account for the latest transmission which includes the words 'We apologise for our mistakes'.
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Are they interested in buying a football club?16
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Did they say that now was time to learn from their mistakes though?3
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These SETI types do tend to over hype their findings.
They claimed a few years back that they had discovered intelligent life in a desolate part of the universe and then had to admit they were wrong when it turned out the message they'd received was....
"no one likes us"7 -
Bailey's penalty has landed.
They are asking if we want our ball back.9 -
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Yes, but they said £38m for a league one club was a knock.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
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Post of the week for me.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
There have been a lot of false alarms through SETI in the past. Obviously this would be incredibly cool, but there are a lot of caveats, including that our definition of a planet "being able to support life" is a pretty narrow one, given that it is limited to carbon-based life forms, usually with liquid water and "mild" temperatures.0 -
They're already in charge!!!i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
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I am waiting for the headline .. 'SETI Finds Yeti'3
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“Ancient history and legend around the world, as well as the Bible, attest to the fact that there were once giants in the earth; men of awesome dimensions, bulk and height."
They are coming back then.
Sounds like one of their agents is touting players around.
Signing one of them might help stop us conceding from corners.
Should easily pass the CL height test.
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More interested in the programme on before it - ".....the genius of sofas"1
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Sounds like Simon Makienok...Oggy Red said:“Ancient history and legend around the world, as well as the Bible, attest to the fact that there were once giants in the earth; men of awesome dimensions, bulk and height."
They are coming back then.
Sounds like one of their agents is touting players around.
Signing one of them might help stop us conceding from corners.
Should easily pass the CL height test.0 -
Not really. He's just a very nice Viking.ForeverAddickted said:
Sounds like Simon Makienok...Oggy Red said:“Ancient history and legend around the world, as well as the Bible, attest to the fact that there were once giants in the earth; men of awesome dimensions, bulk and height."
They are coming back then.
Sounds like one of their agents is touting players around.
Signing one of them might help stop us conceding from corners.
Should easily pass the CL height test.
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You mean feckers!
What's the difference in believing this AND that some multi millionaire foreign fuck wit can run an English football club in that countries 2nd tier?
Some of us hoped we believed it...0 -
I've said before, the Regime's public statements remind me of the bit in Mars Attacks where the Martians are laying waste to a town with their ray guns while proclaiming through an loud-hailer that they come in peace.
This revelation that they are in fact from another planet only strengthens this comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogp_Dai691k 2 -
I've always argued this point with friends and family, very arrogant to assume our atmosphere is the only one capable of supporting life forms.SDAddick said:
Post of the week for me.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
There have been a lot of false alarms through SETI in the past. Obviously this would be incredibly cool, but there are a lot of caveats, including that our definition of a planet "being able to support life" is a pretty narrow one, given that it is limited to carbon-based life forms, usually with liquid water and "mild" temperatures.2 -
Not just that, but a few years ago a silicon based bacteria was found proving that life is not necessarily carbon-based.DA9 said:
I've always argued this point with friends and family, very arrogant to assume our atmosphere is the only one capable of supporting life forms.SDAddick said:
Post of the week for me.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
There have been a lot of false alarms through SETI in the past. Obviously this would be incredibly cool, but there are a lot of caveats, including that our definition of a planet "being able to support life" is a pretty narrow one, given that it is limited to carbon-based life forms, usually with liquid water and "mild" temperatures.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life
To be fair, I think that if you were to ask those involved in SETI they would say "we are looking for life that mimics that found on earth," and would not qualify it as the only form of life possible.1 -
Cuckoo KM?0
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The point is though, it's the only one we KNOW can support life. If you have a virtually infinite number of planets to search for life, then you have to narrow it down a bit because your chances of just randomly pointing your telescope at the right planet are infitesimally small. As our atmosphere is the only one we know can support life, makes sense to start looking for atmospheres like ours and work out from there.DA9 said:
I've always argued this point with friends and family, very arrogant to assume our atmosphere is the only one capable of supporting life forms.SDAddick said:
Post of the week for me.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
There have been a lot of false alarms through SETI in the past. Obviously this would be incredibly cool, but there are a lot of caveats, including that our definition of a planet "being able to support life" is a pretty narrow one, given that it is limited to carbon-based life forms, usually with liquid water and "mild" temperatures.2 -
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Right, and I didn't get the impression that DA was criticizing that, it's just that (as we've seen on our own planet) the possibility for life is not limited to carbon.Exiled_Addick said:
The point is though, it's the only one we KNOW can support life. If you have a virtually infinite number of planets to search for life, then you have to narrow it down a bit because your chances of just randomly pointing your telescope at the right planet are infitesimally small. As our atmosphere is the only one we know can support life, makes sense to start looking for atmospheres like ours and work out from there.DA9 said:
I've always argued this point with friends and family, very arrogant to assume our atmosphere is the only one capable of supporting life forms.SDAddick said:
Post of the week for me.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Are they interested in buying a football club?
There have been a lot of false alarms through SETI in the past. Obviously this would be incredibly cool, but there are a lot of caveats, including that our definition of a planet "being able to support life" is a pretty narrow one, given that it is limited to carbon-based life forms, usually with liquid water and "mild" temperatures.
I saw a documentary on SETI a couple years back. They are very cool. They basically evolved from begging and borrowing telescope time after having their federal funding revoked to being a pretty robust program (with a telescope array being built for them by UC Berkeley). What they do it search for the near impossible, which is damn romantic if you ask me.2 -
Are there a few whooshes on this thread?1
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I want to know what David Icke thinks about this.1
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Addick Addict said:
I want to know what David Icke thinks about this.
No, don't go there, it will drive you mad!Addick Addict said:I want to know what David Icke thinks about this.
Although, I have said before that David Icke, despite his off-the-wall beliefs, knows more about football than equally off-the-wall Roland Duchatelet
which is a rather frightening thing to contemplate.2 -
Living with Sweaty Betty.....Lincsaddick said:I am waiting for the headline .. 'SETI Finds Yeti'
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All we needed to know was that the ingredients for life and importantly water are on other planets - statistics then tell us there has to be, was or will be life on other planets. We will almost certainly never know about any of it it though!1
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More to the point, is there ANY form of intelligent life coming into the CAFC squad and management/owner structure during the close season ?
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NoLincsaddick said:More to the point, is there ANY form of intelligent life coming into the CAFC squad and management/owner structure during the close season ?
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None at Charlton whatsoever0
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I've long said I would support a David Icke-based takeover. The way I see it is we can either try to go back to being a normal, respectable club, or we can just go full on mental. Chairman Icke would have to give daily press conferences, or lectures, and should be allowed to select no more than 5 Reptoid aliens in the starting 11 for each match.Coyotejohn1947 said:Addick Addict said:I want to know what David Icke thinks about this.
No, don't go there, it will drive you mad!Addick Addict said:I want to know what David Icke thinks about this.
Although, I have said before that David Icke, despite his off-the-wall beliefs, knows more about football than equally off-the-wall Roland Duchatelet
which is a rather frightening thing to contemplate.1
