Attempts to Contact Aliens Date Back 150 Years


	Attempts to Contact Aliens Date Back 150 Years

tabsey

1-29-2009 10:13 PM

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And we know the penalties imposed by the church were quicker and more painful than an encounter with a hungry croc.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ed9127b-b326-42f1-85f7-df46dd3389f7/2268FB27-69F3-42DF-8D09-4C8AEF92D3CA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090129-am-seti-history.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090129-am-seti-history.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090129-am-seti-history.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The desire to contact intelligent
life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the SETI movement.
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possible Martians and Venusians.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090129-am-seti-history.html"><SPAN>These early proposals - which
predate by 150 years the first extraterrestrial message that was sent in 1974 -
were based on visual signals, as the invention of radio was still decades away.
 <O:P></O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090129-am-seti-history.html"><SPAN>In fact, as history shows, <A href="http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=b001024_sp_arecibo1&plugin=f&redirOk=1">ideas
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