vmax Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 Dee's hard at work hacking into it now.... What am I talking about?ExtremeRavens merging with Extra Terrestial Ravens. Read and believe.... Alien Internet out there already? "A galactic Internet might be in use already, but by aliens, not by humans yet," says Italy's Claudio Maccone, Maccone thinks that space physics explains why aliens, if they are out there, are likely too busy with their own galactic version of Facebook to pay much attention to all the noise coming from Earthly broadcasts of old baseball games and M.A.S.H. episodes, now making their way across space. They likely have a better way to talk to each other, thanks to an effect called gravitational lensing....Gravitational lensing is an effect seen in astronomy where the tendency of gravity to bend light passing close to anything massive, say a star, can be used to strengthen signals coming from much farther away. Just like astronomical images now captured by the Hubble space telescope, radio messages sent from a spacecraft parked at just the right distance from the star would benefit from the focusing power of gravitational lensing to send radio signals from star to star. For example, writes Maccone, "suppose for a moment that a human spacecraft was already able to reach the nearest star system," which is Alpha Centauri, about 4.4 light years or 25.7 trillion miles away. "The question would then be: 'What shall we do with that spacecraft after it got there?'" he asks.The answer is that we would park the spacecraft 51 billion miles farther away on the far side of the star and park another one similarly far away from our own sun, but in the opposite direction. This location is the focal point of the gravitational lens for radio messages between our sun and Alpha Centauri."That would enable cheap (in terms of the required powers) radio communications between the two stellar systems," Maccone writes. Boosted by the gravity field of the two stars, radio signals become "quite affordable" from a power-transmission standpoint, although they would still travel at the speed of light. So it would take four years for ads for cheap mortgages on Alpha Centauri illustrated by dancing alien icons to reach us. "By this we mean that one or more alien civilizations harboring in the galaxy might have understood the use of radio bridges among stars long ago already. Thus, they might have created a Galactic Internet among the colonized stellar systems according to their needs," Maccone writes. "This is no science fiction: It is just the physics of star gravitational lensing applied to more than one civilization in the galaxy." ....Maccone argues we may not want those advanced aliens to notice us just yet, anyway. Basically, he calculates there is an "appalling" evolutionary gap between humanity and an alien species that has already colonized space. We would just be bugs to them, in terms of evolution. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/vergano/2013/07/06/alien-evolved-internet/2487199/ Did he just call us trolls in that last sentence? We're a little short on cash at the moment to build the spaceship power transmitters but crav has come up with a spectacular idea on how we can get in space inexpensively... Anyway...we're busy recruiting members to help us be the first message board on the block to take this to the next level..(see potential members below) Quote
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