Internet By Starlight
A report up at the New Scientist site discusses the possibility of ETs using starlight to send messages:
Advanced extraterrestrial civilisations may be sending signals through space by “tickling” stars, new research suggests. The signalling would be the galactic equivalent of the internet.
“If it exists, it might be revealed by an analysis of already-existing stellar data,” says John Learned of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Learned and his colleagues have focused their attention on stars that vary regularly in brightness. Crucially, these “Cepheid variables” are so luminous they can be seen as far away as 60 million light years.
Jolting the star with a kick of energy – possibly by shooting it with a beam of high-energy particles called neutrinos – could advance the pulsation by causing its core to heat up and expand, they say.
Considering new research and theories about quantum entanglement and psi, it would seem that this scenario would be the equivalent of using an aldis lamp to communicate when a cel phone is handy. Even King Fundamentalist Skeptic Seth Shostak agrees with this (in a different way) in a quote at the end of the article.
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Sep 11 2008 
September 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
The assumption that “e.t.s” use “human” science is just the mirror-image of the search for the God particle.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
It may not be the right approach, but I hate that Shostak is always attacking scientists that dare to think outside the box. For me using radio-telescopes and wait thousands of years for a response is even more unlikely; I’m not anti-SETI, but I welcome other avenues to explore inter-stellar chatting.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I am trying to reassemble my bookmarks for UFO sites. So I wanted to ask people, what sites can they recommend?
September 12th, 2008 at 7:25 am
“So I wanted to ask people, what sites can they recommend?”
While it is not UFO exclusive have you bookmarked The Anomalist? Also, the ufo message board at Above Top Secret tends to be pretty hopping. I can’t think of any UFO site that doesn’t have a lot of new age, far out garbage (except for this one of course!), but if there seem to be quite a few level headed folks on the ATS board. I also check out Inexplicata by Scott Corrales- great site about Latin American ufology (in English). Can’t recommend it enough. I sometimes check out UFO Casebook. Also, the Paracast is a great podcast with interesting guests and level headed guests- not ufo exclusive but mainly ufos. Probably my favorite podcast. It also has a fairly active forum.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:05 am
The Daily Grail, of course misteranderson!
September 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’m digging into Paul Laviolette’s new book on antigravity propulsion and I noticed that he previously wrote a book about using pulsars for intergalatic communication. Reinventing the wheel or is it a Jungian archetype?