Re: What practical jokes would you pull w/time machine?


Mike Combs wrote:
>"Mike Williams" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>Sagan and Drake designed the plaque a long time before anyone thought of
>>the idea that pulsars were narrow beams. They thought that you could see
>>the same pulsars from just about anywhere, and that their directional
>>information could be decoded by someone with similar starcharting
>>capability to our own.

>Ah. Thanks for filling me in.

>Makes you wonder about so many other presently-reasonable-sounding
>assumptions that SETI is proceeding from.

It makes me wonder what reasonable astronomy mistakes we might
see in an alien plaque or SETI message.

Isaac Kuo

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