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Agent : Orange · February 07, 2013, 09:27:08 PM

The SETI Episode in the 1967 Discovery of Pulsars Alan Penny (Submitted on 4 Feb 2013)

In the winter of 1967 Cambridge radio astronomers discovered a new type of radio source of such an artificial seeming nature that for a few weeks some members of the group had to seriously consider whether they had discovered an extraterrestrial intelligence. Although their investigations lead them to a natural explanation (they had discovered pulsars), they had discussed the implications if it was indeed an artificial source: how to verify such a conclusion and how to announce it, and whether such a discovery might be dangerous. In this they presaged many of the components of the SETI Detection Protocols and the proposed Reply Protocols which have been used to guide the responses of groups dealing with the detection of an extraterrestrial intelligence. These Protocols were only established some twenty five years later in the 1990s and 2000s. Using contemporary and near-contemporary documentation and later recollections, this paper discusses in detail what happened that winter.

Get the full article in pdf here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0641

analog kid · February 08, 2013, 11:37:20 PM

Finally went to the emergency room, after procrastinating for six months. I have a big ole gallstone.

They checked my temperature and blood pressure three times in a row. Can't wait to get that bill.

I'm pretty sure it was caused by my losing a lot of weight too fast. So listen to those people who say you should only lose about five pounds per month.

analog kid · February 08, 2013, 11:51:55 PM

Thanks, Lilly. Doing fine now, have hydrocodones.

Insanity · February 09, 2013, 04:49:22 AM

The reaction of the cop makes me giggle.

I probably should go to sleep now.

Agent : Orange · February 09, 2013, 05:51:05 AM

Quote from: analog kid on February 08, 2013, 11:37:20 PM
Finally went to the emergency room, after procrastinating for six months. I have a big ole gallstone.

Ah shit.

McPhallus · February 09, 2013, 01:56:04 PM

Louie Anderson is looking a little crusty:

999 · February 09, 2013, 02:01:55 PM

I'm slowly (and I mean it) digitizing our VHS tapes.
Sightings episodes are being uploaded to YouTube http://tinyurl.com/aa8evmc snag them while you can.

McPhallus · February 09, 2013, 02:12:41 PM

Quote from: 999 on February 09, 2013, 02:01:55 PM
I'm slowly (and I mean it) digitizing our VHS tapes.
Sightings episodes are being uploaded to YouTube http://tinyurl.com/aa8evmc snag them while you can.

That really takes me back.

Please tell me you have some paranormal documentaries from the 70s. Can't get enough of those.

MV/Liberace! · February 09, 2013, 05:42:03 PM

Quote from: ggseattle on February 05, 2013, 11:24:07 PM
This is making me a)sad and b)feel old.

actually, yes. item b, particularly.

Caruthers612 · February 10, 2013, 04:09:53 AM

How many of you ever bought a CC Radio or a <cough> hand crank radio? I bought a CC Radio once for my best friend on his 40th birthday, he was the guy who introduced me to Art's show in the first place and he freakin' loved the ol' CC. As for the other one, I got somethin' you can crank. :-0

Unquenchable Angst · February 10, 2013, 06:38:59 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 01, 2013, 01:13:56 PM
The Columbia disaster was big news that weekend(it happened around 9:30AM on a Saturday), but Feb, 2003 was basically the last part of the run up to the Iraq Invasion, and Colin Powell's speech at the UN on 2/5/03 pushed the Columbia out of the headlines.

I'm guessing most people over 35 remember where they were for the Challenger. And you make a good point about it occurring during immediately after liftoff, making the impact all the much greater for viewers. And I hate to invoke 9/11...but I remember a lot of my co-workers shrugging their shoulders at the Columbia disaster on the day it happened, with an attitude of "it's not 9/11", as if that was now the scale to judge catastrophes.

And I wish this was me having a bit of fun...but I actually had multiple patriotarded co-workers blame Osama or Saddam for it.

I went outside of the garden shop I was working at on Merritt Island,Florida to watch in terror at the explosion.The night befor most of the Challenger crew had walked into a Popeye's Chicken I was having dinner in the night before. NASA played fast and furious that night.It was very cold.It was general people knowledge that they were not supposed to launch when it was below freezing but they did anyway.

McPhallus · February 10, 2013, 10:27:04 AM

As TVs get more amazing, television shows get more vile. Having an expensive TV today is like having a fancy toilet.

stevesh · February 10, 2013, 11:05:52 AM

Quote from: McPhallus on February 10, 2013, 10:27:04 AM
As TVs get more amazing, television shows get more vile. Having an expensive TV today is like having a fancy toilet.

Good analogy. I recently signed up for Netflix and tried to watch a few TV series I hadn't been able to see when they were current, and my only thought was 'who thought this garbage was worth watching?'

HorrorRetro · February 10, 2013, 12:37:46 PM

Quote from: McPhallus on February 10, 2013, 10:27:04 AM
As TVs get more amazing, television shows get more vile. Having an expensive TV today is like having a fancy toilet.

Yep. We have one TV in our house, down in the basement, and it's not a new one. I had thought about getting a new one for the living room, but why? I watch a few shows, not nearly enough to warrant a second TV. I don't understand these homes where there are TV blaring in every room. I used to be a news junkie with the news always on the background, but I don't even do that anymore.

b_dubb · February 10, 2013, 01:45:44 PM

i watch very little and avoid watching ads at all cost. the way typical shows are programmed you get ten minutes of show for 5 minutes of commercial. bullshit. and on top of that there's a ridiculous bill from the content provider. so it's like you're paying TWICE to watch shitty programming. no thanks. i do netflix and hulu and keep broadcast cable so i have access to pbs, local news, and cspan.

re: show to commerical ration ... no wonder ADD is so prevalent

Juan · February 10, 2013, 07:50:20 PM

It occurred to me today that William B. Davis and Ann B. Davis may be kin.

West of the Rockies · February 10, 2013, 09:09:36 PM

Quote from: UFO Fill on February 10, 2013, 07:50:20 PM
It occurred to me today that William B. Davis and Ann B. Davis may be kin.

Now that would be funny! Can you imagine the Brady Bunch reimagined, where good ol' Alice is always smoking Morley's and messing with Greg's mind?

Caruthers612 · February 10, 2013, 09:21:24 PM

Quote from: UFO Fill on February 10, 2013, 07:50:20 PM
It occurred to me today that William B. Davis and Ann B. Davis may be kin.

I think you win the award.

Mind Flayer Monk · February 10, 2013, 09:43:10 PM

Quote from: 999 on February 09, 2013, 02:01:55 PM
I'm slowly (and I mean it) digitizing our VHS tapes.
Sightings episodes are being uploaded to YouTube http://tinyurl.com/aa8evmc snag them while you can.

Thank you 999. 1965 Kecksburg crash! Good stuff the classic UFO feel.

Usagi · February 14, 2013, 12:25:46 AM

When you have two weeks left to write a thesis paper, everything on the internets, including Coastgab, is about a MILLION times more interesting and distracting than before. I'm even listening to friggin' Snoory.

This is a problem.

Eddie Coyle · February 14, 2013, 12:37:30 AM

Quote from: Usagi on February 14, 2013, 12:25:46 AM
When you have two weeks left to write a thesis paper, everything on the internets, including Coastgab, is about a MILLION times more interesting and distracting than before. I'm even listening to friggin' Snoory.

This is a problem.

A thesis leading you to the depths of listening to Noory.

Let me guess, the subject is the decline of intellectual discourse and talk radio being a microcosm?

Usagi · February 14, 2013, 12:43:28 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 14, 2013, 12:37:30 AM

A thesis leading you to the depths of listening to Noory.

Let me guess, the subject is the decline of intellectual discourse and talk radio being a microcosm?

Nah. I assure you that if it had anything remotely to do with my subject, it is exactly what I would NOT be listening to.

I think the brain-deadening effects of Noory are soothing to me right now. No big words. Me like.

Dear God, I'm turning into a zombie.

Eddie Coyle · February 14, 2013, 01:20:53 AM

Quote from: Usagi on February 14, 2013, 12:43:28 AM

Nah. I assure you that if it had anything remotely to do with my subject, it is exactly what I would NOT be listening to.

I think the brain-deadening effects of Noory are soothing to me right now. No big words. Me like.

Dear God, I'm turning into a zombie.

That makes complete sense, Noory will not tax your brain any more than it needs. C2C is the equivalent of an audio nap. Wow, come to think of it, Noory may serve a purpose as some type of mental decompressor.

Is your brain overstimulated from intellectual pursuits? Well, come listen to C2C and enter a Terry Schiavo-like state of catatonia!

Caruthers612 · February 14, 2013, 03:45:05 AM

I just watched Halestorm's video for the song "Freak Like Me." Hadn't seen it in a while.

a) I wanna nail Lzzy Hale like a coffin lid.

b) Why can't I be a degenerate rocker like them and live on blood and feces?

Agent : Orange · February 14, 2013, 07:10:07 AM

Quote from: Usagi on February 14, 2013, 12:43:28 AM

Nah. I assure you that if it had anything remotely to do with my subject, it is exactly what I would NOT be listening to.

Well now I'm curious. What are you studying?

Good luck with submission.

analog kid · February 14, 2013, 08:21:53 AM

Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 14, 2013, 03:45:05 AM

I just watched Halestorm's video for the song "Freak Like Me." Hadn't seen it in a while.

a) I wanna nail Lzzy Hale like a coffin lid.

b) Why can't I be a degenerate rocker like them and live on blood and feces?

Had to look that up. What kind of music is that? It has all the resonance of christian rock.

Usagi · February 14, 2013, 10:57:52 AM

Quote from: Agent : Orange on February 14, 2013, 07:10:07 AM
Well now I'm curious. What are you studying?

Good luck with submission.

Architectural history. And thank you.

I think I'll go gouge my eyes out now.

Usagi · February 16, 2013, 05:12:45 PM

It's a sunny Saturday in Seattle. Here I sit at my desk. Very sad. I should be reading and doing real stuff. That's why I'm sitting here at this desk. Instead, I'll post on Coastgab and watch awesome videos of Legos enacting Anglo-Saxon poetry:

The Battle of Maldon (Subtitled Version)

HorrorRetro · February 16, 2013, 07:15:45 PM

I'm going to an '80's-style arcade in Tacoma tonight. I haven't been to one since, well, the '80s. Hope it's as fun as it was then. Bonus points because they serve beer. I'll be slumped over the Tempest game as long as we're there.

999 · February 16, 2013, 08:19:24 PM

Quote from: HorrorRetro on February 16, 2013, 07:15:45 PM
I'm going to an '80's-style arcade in Tacoma tonight. I haven't been to one since, well, the '80s. Hope it's as fun as it was then. Bonus points because they serve beer. I'll be slumped over the Tempest game as long as we're there.

ooh play a game of galaga for me.