"The Arecibo Radio Telescope broadcast the signal on November 16, 1974 during a ceremony marking an upgrade of the Puerto Rico-based telescope. The transmission can be arranged into a diagram showing, among other things, a human stick figure, the solar system, the telescope itself and the DNA molecule. The signal was "about a million times stronger than the typical TV transmission," says Frank Drake, the astronomer who organized the project. As such, he notes, it outshines the sun at a comparable wavelength and could be detected with technology similar to radio telescopes on Earth. The Arecibo message was sent toward M13, a star cluster some 25,000 light-years away, which means that it will take 25,000 years to get there. However, the signal will pass near some 30 stars along the way. Those are the bare facts concerning Frank Drake's transmission from Arecibo during the upgrade of that radio telescope. Sent on November 16, 1974, this radio transmission would have taken less than 16 years, at least a one-way trip of 8 years to reach a destination that could receive, decode, and answer the transmission if the answer is in the crop formation near Hampshire. The signal was a 3-minute digital transmission. We are lulled into thinking it looks like a diagram on paper, but that is a translation of the digital signal into a graphic representation. As for the crop formation near Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire on August 19th, the likely hood that aliens would even know that the graphic representation would be on a rectangular medium, as it is converted to graphic form, and displaying this un-transmitted form back is extremely small to not likely at all. The small changes in the graphic to reflect an alien source are convenient representations of our own lore regarding aliens - short with large heads. The pairing of Earth and Mars seems like a concession to Richard Hoagland. And, if we accept the presence of Grays right here on earth, we could also conjecture that they would simply appear in the night and make their own symbols after picking up the Arecibo transmission from an orbiting spaceship, then decide when the time is right to return an answer. " http://www.rense.com/general13/arc.htm I just find it unlikely anyone would be bright enough and good enough to pull off this hoax....yet, it is equally "out there" to believe the alternative.
Okay then.....perhaps you might expand slightly on your opinion? it is al the very least.....intriguing. [video=youtube;2Q0NjXqAy8M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0NjXqAy8M[/video]
Agreed....they are not required, though in this case they seem as likely as the hoax. This one is also kinda cool: [video=youtube;_L6xGfe_a1s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L6xGfe_a1s[/video]
All true....I was discussing these events, rather than the concept. But, you seem uninterested in this........next?
we know how a couple of farmers made A simple crop circle with crushed stalks...we still don't know how the complex patterns with bent stalks are made.
the WOW signal? it's proof that something weird happened. it could have been a natural signal of something huge like a clump of anti-matter finally finding matter.
This is a possibility most definitely....there are many more as well. Considering the variations of orbit, velocity, galactic static, distances, etc......the chances of such a pulse occurring twice would be slim. And, until it is repeated it is invalid.
