XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.atheism, alt.paranormal   
   XPost: alt.alien.research   
   From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:29:50 -0700, the following appeared   
   in sci.skeptic, posted by % :   
      
   >Skeeter OG wrote:   
   >> In article > LKwMX1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com>, pursent100@gmail.com   
   >> says...   
   >>>   
   >>> JTEM wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> P.S.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm certain to a comfortable degree that alien tech has reached   
   >>>> us. It's simply a matter of odds. I do not believe anyone today   
   >>>> has ever witnessed it much less recovered any of it but I do   
   >>>> believe aliens had to have sent technology -- probes -- our way.   
   >>>> Again, simply a matter of odds...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Do the Google on biosignatures, the search thereof. Humans can   
   >>>> already detect biosignatures out beyond 100 light years away, and   
   >>>> we've only started this journey with the discovery of our first   
   >>>> exoplanet roughly 30 years ago!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> NOTE:  "Biosignatures" is not Latin for "Found aliens!"  CO2 is   
   >>>> expelled by living things, for example (we breath it out), but   
   >>>> it also comes from volcanic activity. Both put CO2 into the   
   >>>> atmosphere. These biosignatures really just identify "Candidate"   
   >>>> planets in our search for life, to varying degree of probabilities.   
   >>>> Some biosignatures have no known origins apart from life, and the   
   >>>> combination of signatures is always useful...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The earth has been broadcasting biosignatures for billions of   
   >>>> years. Turn back the clock some 2 billion years and any aliens   
   >>>> even out our humble level of technological achievement would   
   >>>> know that we're here, if they were within 100 light years or   
   >>>> more. They wouldn't know what kind of life, only that the earth   
   >>>> was a life bearing world. But that would be enough to mark us   
   >>>> for exploration. So if there are civilization out there, and   
   >>>> just one of them sent one probe every million years, it happened   
   >>>> no more often than that, we can estimate 2,000 probes sent at   
   >>>> us since The Great Oxidation Event. Some or all of them may   
   >>>> have reached the surface of the earth.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Want to say it happens only once ever 10 million years? Okay   
   >>>> there's been 200 alienspacecraft sent towards the earth... every   
   >>>> 100 million year then there's been 20 alien probes sent at us   
   >>>> since The Great Oxidation Event.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Playing the same odds game here; the chances of finding a piece   
   >>>> of one lie somewhere between zero & nil. The planet is   
   >>>> geologically active.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> if your belief makes you happy , believe it   
   >>   
   >> wats a jtem   
   >>   
   >it's french for i love you   
   >   
   Only if you can't spell. Perhaps you're thinking(?) of "je   
   t'aime"?   
   >   
   >don't you remember the song   
   --   
      
   Bob C.   
      
   "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,   
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not   
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"   
      
   - Isaac Asimov   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)