From: "Phil Payne" 

Oddly, I don't seem to have Randy's original message.

And once every eleven years is about right for this sort of thing.

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:nj3s32la3lj20nasiv2rh2khuabg16lqp7{at}4ax.com...
> 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=2831
55
> > >
> > > 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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