Comments on: Watch the skies http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mrcrookes1 http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10688 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:52:30 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10688 the SETI are we alone podcast is my favourite thing on the internet

seth shostak cohosts it

this episode from a while ago has the same theme
http://radio.seti.org/episodes/SETI_Now_What_

]]> By: Peter Silk http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10674 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:14:51 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10674 Nice little piece. Bit unfair to lay the blame on the BBC for the restrictions on iPlayer though, even if it was just a light gag.

They’d love to be able to release everything for as long as is feasible. It’s all the various rights holders and the unions that represent them that need to be convinced that this is a good deal for them.

]]> By: Rufus White http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10672 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:52:40 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10672 More on the tech Seti uses:

http://www.silicon.com/technology/hardware/2010/09/18/the-search-for-alien-intelligence-why-et-has-nowhere-left-to-hide-39746138/

]]> By: Tom Davenport http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10671 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:48:42 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10671 I was fortunate enough to decide I should fall asleep to Radio 4 last night. Glad I did, because this program was brilliant, particularly the insight into why they bother looking at all. Yes, it may be almost futile, but it is noble and appropriate to say in the future that we were not ignorant of our neighbours.

]]> By: gregory lent http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10635 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:05:38 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10635 did you ever do a story on chemtrails?

]]> By: fairyhedgehog http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/23/watch-the-skies/#comment-10634 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:02:11 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=14314#comment-10634 It’s always puzzled me how we think we’ll recognise alien intelligence if we meet it. We’re not too quick to recognise intelligence in the other animals we share the planet with.

Most of the techniques for communicating with aliens seem to rely on them having similar thought processes to ours, plus in many cases similar senses. I don’t know how the evidence stacks up to show the probability of this.

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