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Notions To Consider When Thinking Of Life In Other Worlds
It?s unlikely that aliens are sitting around fiddling with rabbit ears in attempt to listen to our nonsense, but nevertheless, humans have been sending messages into space for decades. The first AM broadcast was on Christmas Eve, 1906, and Hitler?s broadcasting of the 1936 Olympics is regarded as the first signal powerful enough to be carried into space.
When compared to the vast size of the Milky Way, our presence here on Earth seems insignificant. Even our space-bound messages ? which are traveling at the speed of light ? are dwarfed by the galaxy?s immensity. The image on the left illustrates our ?bubble? of existence, which spans 200 light years in all directions ? but is just a small blip on the cosmic radar.(Via Geekosystem)
Meaning we’ve barely even scratched the surface of our own galaxy with our own human technology that could be left unheard if a more advanced or slightly different technology intercepts it. Yet, there’s still billions of other stars and galaxies to consider within our own vicinity.
There’s a lot of factors to consider before completely denouncing the existence of intelligent life in other planets similar or not similar to ours. Anyone with a general understanding of Astronomy or even Biology will tell you evolution plays a big part in the workings of these subjects. And evolution may not be restrained to Earth, who knows where else it took place and how it processed there.
What those organisms developed into within a different environment. And to push it further, what kind of communications they had. We assume too much down here, that others will develop the same as us and understand the way we perceived data. If they lived under different circumstances and resources would it not be safe to say that their infrastructure might also be initially incomprehensible since their communications and technologies reflect where they developed and how.
A lot of things to consider before claiming we are alone.
I feel in a blogging mood, so here goes!
Hello everyone! Today was a really interesting day for me. ?I did my first stand-up for my broadcasting class. ?Our semester-long assignment is to create a broadcast package, which the stand-up was for. ?Most of us are newbies in the broadcast field and so, this is mostly an introductory course to broadcast and everything pertaining to it (i.e. use of Final Cut Pro). ?
I am not much of a camera person but I must say that filming my stand-up was an enjoyable and learning experience. ?I love to write, so I enjoy print journalism and have aspirations of one day writing for a living or laying out pages (as an editor). ?I had never given much thought to broadcast journalism, but after this experience, I realize how much talent television reporters have. ?I knew they were talented, I just didn’t know how much. ?Now, I do.
I must admit, I went through about 15 re-takes because I could not do it well. ?I stuttered, laughed, froze, and completely messed up along the way. I don’t know how others do it, especially LIVE!
In addition to doing a stand-up today, I also conducted an interview for my package. ?It was a learning experience as well. ?About 90% of my footage had part of my hair in the frame. ?So, I will have to redo parts of the interview again. ?But, as I have emphasized, today was primarily a learning experience.
Goodnight!
Germany marks first phone call anniversary - 15 years before Bell
Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today ? a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable.
The age of telephony was not hailed with Bell?s summons to his assistant, ?Mr Watson come here ? I want to see you? in 1876 ? but by the surreal sentence ?The horse does not eat cucumber salad? spoken on October 26 back in 1861 by Reis.
It was a nonsense phrase which Reis made up during a presentation of his early telephone model ? to prove to the audience that listeners on the receiving end of his device were not parroting a memorized dialogue.
His physics project, bearing the title, ?On the transmission of sounds over optional distances through the switching of galvanic electricity,? which involved a wooden earpiece complemented by a piece of sausage skin to recreate the eardrum, started the string of long-distance communication devices that have revolutionized the transmission of voice and data messages.
Aged just 27 when he transmitted the cucumber salad sentence, Reis was unable to develop his invention further and it remained a one-way device. He died of tuberculosis aged 40. (via The Local)
