From: John Beckett 

That's a great catch, but I'm happy for Phil to repeat a good story every
eleven years.

John

Randy  wrote in message news::
> Phil Payne wrote:
> >> You know, it may well be that from our POV we really are alone in the
> >> universe, not that nobody else exists but that the distances
are so great
> >> that it would take longer than the life span of civilizations to ever
> >> communicate.
> >
> >
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/189280302X/103-0108512-0179003?v=glance&n=
283155
> >
> > Another spectacular read.
> >
> > Sagan made the point that the Earth is warmer than the Sun at several
points
> > in the spectrum, specifically around 1200kHz (middle America's medium wave
> > transmitters) and at the methane resonance.
> >
> > It's a sobering thought, according to Sagan, that the main clues of life on
> > Earth from the point of view of an approaching alien spacecraft are country
> > music and cow farts.
> >
> > (And he has the math to back that up.)
> >
>
> Hard to believe it's been 11 years:
>
> #: 361796 S6/The OS Wars
>      03-Apr-95  02:38:46
> Sb: #361490-NEC abandons OS/2?
> Fm: Phil Payne 100012,1660
> To: Randy Holcomb 76507,156
>
>   > CO2 or methane? Newsweek said methane.
>
> What's a termite?
>
> I've heard of US-centric, but this is ridiculous.  True, the insect order
> outweighs the mammalian order on this planet by an order of magnitude or
> two.
>   But termites make up such a miniscule fraction of the total - and don't
> produce that much methane anyway.
>
> Carl Sagan has observed that ungulates produce a lot of methane, and
> that the
> Mid West of America is populated with very large medium wave transmitters.
> Both result in very strong lines in the Earth's spectrum - in fact, at
> 1.4MHz
> or so, the Earth is considerably hotter than the sun.
>
> But, as Sagan says, it's a sobering thought that cow farts and country &
> western music will be the first sign an approaching alien gets of life on
> Earth.
>
>   phil{at}sievers.com
>   Vice Chair, UKCMG
>   +44 385302803

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