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12-30-2008, 01:41 PM
"Troll," not in the usual forum context, but in the piscatorial use of the word.
Through a google search I turned up a link to a series of documents, old BBS ones, stored over at Sacred Texts .com. I am easily entertained by the "stuff you find on the way to other stuff", always have been.
The files are un-indexed, meaning if you go to the main page of this section:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/
you won't see any links to them. But they are there, and the only real method of navigation is a "hide-n-seek" set of links, "next - previous", at the top of each one. So....
Being your basic snoop, I did what comes natural. I followed my nose, and saved off 20, or so, to read.
What prompted the post was something I dont see too often, a scientific mind actually waxing poetic. This from radio Astronomer Frank Drake:
"In the silence of dead monitors, the hardcopy hums into trays, signal
after signal from the chaos, the various voices are collected, and after
the final signal, one can listen and wait for the encoded call of the
void..."
For anyone with a PhD, that is heady stuff! :bananen_smilies029:
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Full text:
-=> Quoted from SETI <=-
In 1961, radio astronomer Frank Drake presented the following equation
to a conference of scientists gathered to discuss the search for
intelligent life in the milky way galaxy. That conference, and other
discussions like it, eventually led to SETI, the search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence.
N = (R*) (fp) (ne) (fl) (fj) (fc) (L)
N = Number of communicating civilizations from the void, the product of
the following seven factors. The Drake equation presents a range
for N between 100 and 100,000.
R* = Rate of starbirths. It is conjectured that an average of ten stars
is believed to form each year in the lifetime of the galaxy; the
value of for R* is 10.
f.p = Star with planets it is believed all stars develop a system of
planets, setting the value of f.p at 1.
n.e = Planets with life-supporting environments. It was accepted that
each star system has a likelihood of producing an average of one
inhabitable planet, setting the value of n.e. at 1.
f.l = Planets with life. It is assumed that all planets capable of
supporting life with eventually possess it. Making the value of
f.l at 1.
f.i = Intelligent life. Estimates suggest that life will evolve to
setience on 10% of the planets with life, thus setting f.i at 1.
f.c = Communicating societies. Variable possibilities for the proper
technologies and a willingness to send messages are estimated at
roughly 10%; the value for f.c was set at 1.
L = Civilization life span. The length of time during which an
advanced, intelligent civilization may broadcast is limited by the
amount of time, in years, it exists; the value for L ranges from
1,000 to 1,000,000,000.
In the silence of dead monitors, the hardcopy hums into trays, signal
after signal from the chaos, the various voices are collected, and after
the final signal, one can listen and wait for the encoded call of the
void...
Should the spirits move you to go look around, you can start with the link to this one, then use the "next/previous" to heart's content.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/seti-e.htm
Enjoy,
Fred
I'll post one more in a sec, here.
Through a google search I turned up a link to a series of documents, old BBS ones, stored over at Sacred Texts .com. I am easily entertained by the "stuff you find on the way to other stuff", always have been.
The files are un-indexed, meaning if you go to the main page of this section:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/
you won't see any links to them. But they are there, and the only real method of navigation is a "hide-n-seek" set of links, "next - previous", at the top of each one. So....
Being your basic snoop, I did what comes natural. I followed my nose, and saved off 20, or so, to read.
What prompted the post was something I dont see too often, a scientific mind actually waxing poetic. This from radio Astronomer Frank Drake:
"In the silence of dead monitors, the hardcopy hums into trays, signal
after signal from the chaos, the various voices are collected, and after
the final signal, one can listen and wait for the encoded call of the
void..."
For anyone with a PhD, that is heady stuff! :bananen_smilies029:
______________________________
Full text:
-=> Quoted from SETI <=-
In 1961, radio astronomer Frank Drake presented the following equation
to a conference of scientists gathered to discuss the search for
intelligent life in the milky way galaxy. That conference, and other
discussions like it, eventually led to SETI, the search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence.
N = (R*) (fp) (ne) (fl) (fj) (fc) (L)
N = Number of communicating civilizations from the void, the product of
the following seven factors. The Drake equation presents a range
for N between 100 and 100,000.
R* = Rate of starbirths. It is conjectured that an average of ten stars
is believed to form each year in the lifetime of the galaxy; the
value of for R* is 10.
f.p = Star with planets it is believed all stars develop a system of
planets, setting the value of f.p at 1.
n.e = Planets with life-supporting environments. It was accepted that
each star system has a likelihood of producing an average of one
inhabitable planet, setting the value of n.e. at 1.
f.l = Planets with life. It is assumed that all planets capable of
supporting life with eventually possess it. Making the value of
f.l at 1.
f.i = Intelligent life. Estimates suggest that life will evolve to
setience on 10% of the planets with life, thus setting f.i at 1.
f.c = Communicating societies. Variable possibilities for the proper
technologies and a willingness to send messages are estimated at
roughly 10%; the value for f.c was set at 1.
L = Civilization life span. The length of time during which an
advanced, intelligent civilization may broadcast is limited by the
amount of time, in years, it exists; the value for L ranges from
1,000 to 1,000,000,000.
In the silence of dead monitors, the hardcopy hums into trays, signal
after signal from the chaos, the various voices are collected, and after
the final signal, one can listen and wait for the encoded call of the
void...
Should the spirits move you to go look around, you can start with the link to this one, then use the "next/previous" to heart's content.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/seti-e.htm
Enjoy,
Fred
I'll post one more in a sec, here.