Topic: Fundraising for SETI with bitcoins (Read 2526 times)
Just read this thread and i am stunned by bitrebel idiocies 
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Your post is worthless.
Just read this thread and i am stunned by bitrebel idiocies A true troll he is
A true troll he is 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle
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Bower and Chorley
In 1991, self-professed pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made headlines claiming it was they who started the phenomenon in 1978 by making actual circles on crops with the use of simple tools.[4] After their announcement, in a demonstration the two men made a crop circle in one hour.
It's fun to daydream. In 1991, self-professed pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made headlines claiming it was they who started the phenomenon in 1978 by making actual circles on crops with the use of simple tools.[4] After their announcement, in a demonstration the two men made a crop circle in one hour.
I am more of a skeptic than most. But SETI is a very worthwhile project. This is real science and not some kind of fringe pseudoscience. They are not looking for spaceships or secret conspiracies. They are looking for a patterned EM signal. If someone tried looking at Earth with a radio telescope, they would find us. So why not look?
It's been stated numerous times by many intelligent people that intelligent life would not be using radio waves to communicate. We're almost past that now as humans. If you want to see intelligent communication, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3bo-T1qhA
So, what do the crop circles say? And how is flying through the universe to leave a circle in a field better than radio waves?P.S. The UK based prankster group that made the first crop circles have long ago admitted it was a hoax.
Don't be stupid. You can't make those by hand. If you believe only humans make crop circles with plows in fields, you are very very foolish. Those are mathematical expressions, in geometry, and I would think most coders here would appreciate that.
I am more of a skeptic than most. But SETI is a very worthwhile project. This is real science and not some kind of fringe pseudoscience. They are not looking for spaceships or secret conspiracies. They are looking for a patterned EM signal. If someone tried looking at Earth with a radio telescope, they would find us. So why not look?
It's been stated numerous times by many intelligent people that intelligent life would not be using radio waves to communicate. We're almost past that now as humans. If you want to see intelligent communication, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3bo-T1qhA
So, what do the crop circles say? And how is flying through the universe to leave a circle in a field better than radio waves?P.S. The UK based prankster group that made the first crop circles have long ago admitted it was a hoax.
I never said it was the best form, but obviously one that is already being utilized and overlooked as well. r u serious?
How is it a good form of communication in any way? And what makes you think these are made by aliens?Furthermore, what makes you think you can find UFOs by running around at night with some night vision goggles while men of science struggle to find any sort of evidence that aliens have ever visited the Earth?
Oh wait, let me guess... all scientists work for the Illuminati?
It's been stated numerous times by many intelligent people that intelligent life would not be using radio waves to communicate. We're almost past that now as humans. If you want to see intelligent communication, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3bo-T1qhA
Yes, the best form of communication is clearly crop circles!... seriously?
I never said it was the best form, but obviously one that is already being utilized and overlooked as well. r u sirius?
It's been stated numerous times by many intelligent people that intelligent life would not be using radio waves to communicate. We're almost past that now as humans. If you want to see intelligent communication, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3bo-T1qhA
Yes, the best form of communication is clearly crop circles!... seriously?
I am more of a skeptic than most. But SETI is a very worthwhile project. This is real science and not some kind of fringe pseudoscience. They are not looking for spaceships or secret conspiracies. They are looking for a patterned EM signal. If someone tried looking at Earth with a radio telescope, they would find us. So why not look?
It's been stated numerous times by many intelligent people that intelligent life would not be using radio waves to communicate. We're almost past that now as humans. If you want to see intelligent communication, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3bo-T1qhA
I am more of a skeptic than most. But SETI is a very worthwhile project. This is real science and not some kind of fringe pseudoscience. They are not looking for spaceships or secret conspiracies. They are looking for a patterned EM signal. If someone tried looking at Earth with a radio telescope, they would find us. So why not look?
Go get some Military Grade Night Vision Infrared goggles and go out on a dark night and you'll find all the intelligent life you want to.
Haha, wow, this is great. Tin foil hats are entertaining. 
I think SETI is worthwhile. Any attempt to detect intelligence in the universe is useful. Lord knows we're not stockpiling any here, lol.
It seems a bit odd to use your computer resources to mine bitcoins and then donate them to SETI or folding@home when you could simply donate some computer power to those projects directly.
There are over 50 BOINC projects and some are better or more "worthwhile" than others. SETI might be well known, but many in the BOINC community dislike it for various reasons.
However, running computer time for things like SETI (normally CPU) doesn't pay their bills and feed the interns who often do the day-to-day work. Donating some of the GPU generated coins helps.
It seems a bit odd to use your computer resources to mine bitcoins and then donate them to SETI or folding@home when you could simply donate some computer power to those projects directly.
On the other hand, this way, you are helping both projects. 8D+1
It seems a bit odd to use your computer resources to mine bitcoins and then donate them to SETI or folding@home when you could simply donate some computer power to those projects directly.
On the other hand, this way, you are helping both projects. 8D
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ed+grimsley&aq=f
Watch this in awe, and realize the only search for intelligent life need to be done inside your skull, because my girlfriends 10 year old child knows more about ETs than you or SETI.
Watch this in awe, and realize the only search for intelligent life need to be done inside your skull, because my girlfriends 10 year old child knows more about ETs than you or SETI.
It seems a bit odd to use your computer resources to mine bitcoins and then donate them to SETI or folding@home when you could simply donate some computer power to those projects directly.
... yep there are many way to contribute to a project. Bitcoin donations are just one of the way you can help. I remember installing the SETI client years ago and it blew my mind to think of the project that I was in some small way contributing to. Interesting to think of the bitcoin mining parallels though.
Donate your brain to science to study stupidity and there you go.
It seems a bit odd to use your computer resources to mine bitcoins and then donate them to SETI or folding@home when you could simply donate some computer power to those projects directly.
... yep there are many way to contribute to a project. Bitcoin donations are just one of the way you can help. I remember installing the SETI client years ago and it blew my mind to think of the project that I was in some small way contributing to. Interesting to think of the bitcoin mining parallels though.
Julz I think you are of a more similar mindset to myself than bitrebel but I can appreciate his opinion: finding aliens is not his thing
We set up youtipit to reward people who do interesting and worthwhile things in all areas online.
SETI is a relatively large project but I like what they do and maybe others in the bitcoin community do also. Also this might raise bitcoins profile and show it in a positive light.
We set up youtipit to reward people who do interesting and worthwhile things in all areas online.
SETI is a relatively large project but I like what they do and maybe others in the bitcoin community do also. Also this might raise bitcoins profile and show it in a positive light.
Finding aliens is not my thing?
There are 1000 god damn videos on youtube of alien ships all over the earth and space, live network news shots, over the dome in Israel, over Washington DC, on the 4th of July, videos by children, by grandparents, from, the US, Russia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, germany, france, and every country in the world.....
and you want to send bitcoins to SETI?
This is the reason bitcoin will never succeed, if it dies. Too many bitbrains, or not enough people with half a bit for a brain, like the OP.
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