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(And What It Has to Do With Aliens) Hint: nothing. Why the need to bring aliens into it? I like how this isn't in the topic here, because it's really clickba

by cbanek 6y ago

(And What It Has to Do With Aliens) Hint: nothing. Why the need to bring aliens into it? I like how this isn't in the topic here, because it's really clickbait. I didn't find one mention of any talk about aliens in the whole thing. But it is a great article about radio astronomy.

BTCOG 6y ago
I assume that you are wholly unfamiliar with Vice to be able to say this. Ok, since I constantly get downvotes for no reason. Vice, runs tons of stuff about aliens. They're a meme news outfit that runs shows such as "Fuck, that's delicious" and shows with Action Bronson and friends who get really high and do commentary on episodes of "Ancient Aliens." So again, you have to be totally unfamiliar with Vice, to say "Why aliens?"
Jtsummers 6y ago
> Somehow the news got around that here was this new way of listening to little green men on Mars. This is what radio astronomy seemed to the ordinary public. And the FCC was preventing it from being developed in the United States. We got rumors, George particularly from friends he knew, that gradually a huge accumulation of letters arrived at the FCC, protesting against this nonsupport of this new science, whatever it was. And that this finally persuaded the FCC that they’d better give in. Nobody knows. [emphasis added] That's the part about aliens. McVittie's perception that the popular understanding of radio astronomy (listening to Martians) influenced the FCC decision (which, at least officially as described in the next quote, was not the case).
tantalor 6y ago
It's never aliens.
- deleted 6y ago
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- ebcode 6y ago
  Until it is.
  - imoverclocked 6y ago
    In that case, eventually ... it's only aliens.
tekromancr 6y ago
Well, there is this thing that some humans do called "humor" where one party will perform some action that serves as a benign violation, usually of another party's expectations. When this benign violation is revealed to be in jest, both parties receive a rush of endorphins; which many find pleasurable.
- heleninboodler 6y ago
  Your comment resulted in such an endorphin rush in me, resulting in a brief but audible involuntary outburst.
chias 6y ago
> Why the need to bring aliens into it? If the cynic in me wants to assume the copy-editor who was tasked with coming up with the title skimmed the article, saw the phrase "and found it had an extraterrestrial source", and interpreted the wrong definition for "extraterrestrial".
- boomboomsubban 6y ago
  Thinking an editor made an honest mistake isn't a very cynical outlook. Average cynicism would assume the editor knew the difference and played up the angle as clickbait, hardcore cynics would assume the editor changed something like the radio waves "originated off planet" to "were extraterrestrial" to force click bait in.

by cbanek 6y ago

BTCOG 6y ago

I assume that you are wholly unfamiliar with Vice to be able to say this. Ok, since I constantly get downvotes for no reason. Vice, runs tons of stuff about aliens. They're a meme news outfit that runs shows such as "Fuck, that's delicious" and shows with Action Bronson and friends who get really high and do commentary on episodes of "Ancient Aliens." So again, you have to be totally unfamiliar with Vice, to say "Why aliens?"

Jtsummers 6y ago

> Somehow the news got around that here was this new way of listening to little green men on Mars. This is what radio astronomy seemed to the ordinary public. And the FCC was preventing it from being developed in the United States. We got rumors, George particularly from friends he knew, that gradually a huge accumulation of letters arrived at the FCC, protesting against this nonsupport of this new science, whatever it was. And that this finally persuaded the FCC that they’d better give in. Nobody knows. [emphasis added] That's the part about aliens. McVittie's perception that the popular understanding of radio astronomy (listening to Martians) influenced the FCC decision (which, at least officially as described in the next quote, was not the case).

tantalor 6y ago

It's never aliens.

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ebcode 6y ago
Until it is.
- imoverclocked 6y ago
  In that case, eventually ... it's only aliens.

tekromancr 6y ago

Well, there is this thing that some humans do called "humor" where one party will perform some action that serves as a benign violation, usually of another party's expectations. When this benign violation is revealed to be in jest, both parties receive a rush of endorphins; which many find pleasurable.

heleninboodler 6y ago
Your comment resulted in such an endorphin rush in me, resulting in a brief but audible involuntary outburst.

chias 6y ago

> Why the need to bring aliens into it? If the cynic in me wants to assume the copy-editor who was tasked with coming up with the title skimmed the article, saw the phrase "and found it had an extraterrestrial source", and interpreted the wrong definition for "extraterrestrial".

boomboomsubban 6y ago
Thinking an editor made an honest mistake isn't a very cynical outlook. Average cynicism would assume the editor knew the difference and played up the angle as clickbait, hardcore cynics would assume the editor changed something like the radio waves "originated off planet" to "were extraterrestrial" to force click bait in.