Skybuck Flying wrote:

Hi,

Seeing all the bullshit in this newsgroup or maybe sci-fi... or maybe future
technology I thought I add some of mine hehehehe.

My idea is to use the SUN as a way to send a message to aliens ;)

We build a big shield around the sun. And then we can turn it on and off
like a lamp.

   It's very easy to write a sentence like that.....

   A shield made of what? Surrounding how much of the Sun? At what
distance (which will have a lot to do with its mass)? Are you talking
about some kind of billion-mile wide Venetian Blind? Have you any sort
of idea about how hard it would be to make something like this move in
unison?

   And you think *we* talk bullshit?

   Strong, very directional radio waves are easy to generate, and some
parts of the spectrum (do a search on "SETI"+"water hole") are usefully
quiet.

   It's my understanding that the Aricebo readitelescope could
communicate with another device like itself on the other side of the
galaxy. If we had the will, we could build something even bigger/higher
gain in free-fall and/or on the Lunar farside. ETs that have radio at
all, likely could do even better.
 

Yeah... because I don't believe that radio signals would ever get to the
other side of the galaxy... to much noise and stuff... so it's unrecnogzible
blabla whatever :D

   But you believe one oddly-flickering g-class star will be seen over
the same distances?

So instead one needs a BIG, POWERFULL, SIGNAL ;)

And I think the sun is a pretty good BIG,POWERFULL, SIGNAL ;)

   In a sky full of similar 'big powerful signals.'

 

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Has anybody ever though about analyzing stars ????

   Plenty of people already look for variable stars, nova/supernova, and
planetary searchers might well spot something like this, too.

   The idea of large lasers, intermittently transmitting at a wavelength
that's in one of the Sun's spectral absorbtion lines, makes more sense,
though you must then pick very specific targets.
 

Maybe other aliens have already though up the same idea ;)

Maybe aliens are already trying to send a message to us by using the stars
!!!

Since we CAN see the STARS ! even from earth hehehehehehe.

So has anybody really analyzed the light from stars... if they contain
messages from aliens ?

Bye,
  Skybuck.

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