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    so tv stations are going to go blank for an hour? we cannot afford to shut down power for 1 hour, what if aliens finally respond to one of your transmittions?
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    1/ TV stations aren't part of the SETI programme.

    2/ The entire globe isn't shutting down at the same time - even if we had full international cooperation, it's between the hours of 20:00-21:00, which varies according to which time zone you're in. So only one time zone would be shut down at any one time.

    3/ If an alien species were really determined to make contact then I'm sure that they would be transmitting for more than just 1 hour!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    3/ If an alien species were really determined to make contact then I'm sure that they would be transmitting for more than just 1 hour!
    but what if an hour in our time is like the equivalent of say 30 hours in alien time......


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    SETI's been running for 48 years now... if aliens aren't willing to make a similar effort then they can go phone off back home.

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    Lessee, I went to work and the wife who was at home watched TV and left the light on. We only usually have 1 light on in the whole house. It's one of those energy saving jobbies too! Damned if I am gonna sit in the dark for that bugger all amount of power.

    I thought the whole idea was a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Borgeman View Post
    what movie did he see it off?

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    None actually. He used to work in a lab and a co-worker showed him some study he found somewhere. He is seriously convinced it's going to happen. So much so he now works in a service station about 25hrs a week so he can enjoy the rest of his life instead of being stuck in some lab working all night.

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    Actually it's not a meteor at that time, by then we should be in an ice age due to the lack of solar activity, which is happening right now. Climate change is cosmically caused and is a cycle.

    Sure it's good to reduce the amount of particles in the air for our own good, but we're not changing anything weather system/cycle wise.

    but what if an hour in our time is like the equivalent of say 30 hours in alien time......
    They may have differently calibrated clocks, that's it. The dimension of time is a constant. The only thing that can "change" time is gravity and speed.
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    time is nothing to the timelords

    a chunk of rock will not kill us, unicron will

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    Well according to these people:

    http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL30158979.html

    The end of the world is supposed to happen late April or May.

    Too bad that the end of the world will be in 2023. I may be too old to go all Mad Max at age 43.

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    Would have been the end of their world from the mud cave collapse at about that time.
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