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John Kimberley What if the proton does have a half-life? 10 to the 34 years is not that long.
October 2, 2015 12:54:51 · Reply
September 17, 2015 17:53:53
Pete Mancini We can't say we have looked hard at all for SETI signals. No analysis have ever shown that the signal originated near Earth which makes it the only viable candidate we have for a signal from another civilization. Also, with 98% of the sky not having been surveyed we haven't even tried. There are 5 degrees of freedom here. Big Ear hit the big one by being lucky. The spot where the signal appears to original is largely empty. On the one hand you might conclude this proves it was a false signal, or perhaps a glitch in the processing by Big Ear's computers. I was in this boat until I played out several game theory rounds and discovered that the smartest strategy is to negotiate contact off of your home world. Now, being able to create a 2.2 GW signal in interstellar space takes technology we don't have. However we can imagine it. It's not impossible. If that is the case then perhaps the Wow! signal came from a probe or a reflector. In which case it's up to us to scan wider, more constantly and everywhere. To do this I suggest a crowdsourced project where people build small, purpose built radio telescopes and run them. Get enough people and enough data and let SETI@home crunch the numbers. It would greatly increase the coverage of space, produce useful radio telescope science, and be a neat project. It's easy to build one and several people have created web pages and pdf documents dedicated to it.
September 21, 2015 20:33:47 · Reply
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July 24, 2015 00:10:56
James Truck Captain Stumpy My first thought about future episodes would be to try and find a mission to Jay's beard to search for life... (my beard is better than your beard - nyeah nyeah)- IMAGINE the wonders that might be found in that bushy forest? LOL But seriously... In all honesty, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede are likely the BEST candidates, but i also think we might have a good chance for finding life on Venus... one might find life in the more manageable temps in the atmosphere, but in all honesty, i am thinking subterranean searches on the planet might be more fruitful. (but what do i know, right? my BEARD might have life in it as well... )
July 24, 2015 16:33:03 · Reply
Kuri the Vegan I'm sure it's on the list, but I vote for a video about the Pluto flyby.
July 25, 2015 04:37:50 · Reply
Richard Hayward A video update on where we are with New Horizons, as well as where the probe might be headed next would be nice and timely.
July 25, 2015 10:35:03 · Reply
James Truck Captain Stumpy the best way i could think of is to pull a "Red" Adair... blow it out with a serious explosion that would interfere with the fusion by interrupting the process and redistributing the plasma ... if that was even capable. of course, it would take something equivalent to a very close supernova likely... but... as long as we are talking dreamworld and discussing magically replacing cores... why not?
September 24, 2015 21:18:39 · Reply
Jamie Rich Don't give the star any coffee in the morning!
September 28, 2015 17:31:12 · Reply
Susannah V Griffin Funny you should ask........I saw a cluster of them burn out earlier today.
September 28, 2015 21:25:04 · Reply