{"id":6086,"date":"2011-12-05T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/messaging-et-meti-and-silicon-based-life-forms\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:19:19","slug":"messaging-et-meti-and-silicon-based-life-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/messaging-et-meti-and-silicon-based-life-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Messaging ET (METI),  and Silicon-based Life Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/War-of-the-worlds-tripod.jpg.pagespeed.ce_._Y3vwqXXOp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/War-of-the-worlds-tripod.jpg.pagespeed.ce_._Y3vwqXXOp.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682584164988483986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">My fellow beacon fans will like this one. The ultimate (REALLY ultimate) beacon! <\/span> <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21236-lets-build-a-beacon-to-tell-aliens-who-we-were.html?page=1\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21236-lets-build-a-beacon-to-tell-aliens-who-we-were.html?page=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And then there is this article about silicon-based life forms. (At first I thought they were talking about us!) <\/span> <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/91449\/why-silicon-based-aliens-would-rather-eat-our-cities-than-us-thoughts-on-non-carbon-astrobiology\/\">http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/91449\/why-silicon-based-aliens-would-rather-eat-our-cities-than-us-thoughts-on-non-carbon-astrobiology\/<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our Book Store: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow beacon fans will like this one. The ultimate (REALLY ultimate) beacon! http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21236-lets-build-a-beacon-to-tell-aliens-who-we-were.html?page=1 And then there is this article about silicon-based life forms. (At first I thought they were talking about us!) http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/91449\/why-silicon-based-aliens-would-rather-eat-our-cities-than-us-thoughts-on-non-carbon-astrobiology\/ Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htmOur coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmokeOur Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beacon","category-seti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}