{
  "id": 237959,
  "title": "Are we trying to see if there are aliens?",
  "url": "/competitions/seti-breakthrough-listen/discussion/237959",
  "author_name": "Bo Peng",
  "post_date": "2021-05-10T20:59:53.712000",
  "votes": 10,
  "comment_count": 12,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p><img src=\"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEZ3m0SFpeTux8e4sV_TLFEqufMkeeBqtl7g&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"Titanic\"></p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1300943,
      "postDate": "2021-05-10T21:14:09.607Z",
      "content": "<p>Or maybe the aliens have created a competition to see if we can find them? 🙉 Good luck everyone! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Or maybe the aliens have created a competition to see if we can find them? 🙉 Good luck everyone! ",
      "votes": 16,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1300969,
          "postDate": "2021-05-10T21:41:01.247Z",
          "content": "<p>\"Kaggle Competition hosted by [redacted, need to know basis only]\"</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "\"Kaggle Competition hosted by [redacted, need to know basis only]\"",
          "votes": 14
        },
        {
          "id": 1301354,
          "postDate": "2021-05-11T03:24:34.300Z",
          "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/inversion\" target=\"_blank\">@inversion</a> </p>\n<p>an unrelated question… whenever I try to upload an image i get an error \"We have disabled uploading forum attachments for the time being. Please use an alternative host for your file, and link to it from your forum post.<br>\nSorry for the inconvenience!\"</p>\n<p>However, I see some like above have images/gifs … what I am doing wrong?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Hi @inversion \n\nan unrelated question... whenever I try to upload an image i get an error \"We have disabled uploading forum attachments for the time being. Please use an alternative host for your file, and link to it from your forum post.\nSorry for the inconvenience!\"\n\nHowever, I see some like above have images/gifs ... what I am doing wrong?",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 1301877,
          "postDate": "2021-05-11T09:34:00.790Z",
          "content": "<p>What if some aliens created a competition \"how to search earth people's signal and cheat it\".</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "What if some aliens created a competition \"how to search earth people's signal and cheat it\".",
          "votes": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1300950,
      "postDate": "2021-05-10T21:21:23.190Z",
      "content": "<p>With tens of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, we think it's pretty likely they're out there somewhere. You're trying to help us build better algorithms to search for them in data from some of our planet's most powerful telescopes.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "With tens of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, we think it's pretty likely they're out there somewhere. You're trying to help us build better algorithms to search for them in data from some of our planet's most powerful telescopes.",
      "votes": 11
    },
    {
      "id": 1300933,
      "postDate": "2021-05-10T20:59:53.713Z",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEZ3m0SFpeTux8e4sV_TLFEqufMkeeBqtl7g&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"Titanic\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "<img src= \"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEZ3m0SFpeTux8e4sV_TLFEqufMkeeBqtl7g&usqp=CAU\" alt =\"Titanic\" style='width: 200px;'>",
      "votes": 10
    },
    {
      "id": 1301350,
      "postDate": "2021-05-11T03:22:20.907Z",
      "content": "<p>“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 1301434,
      "postDate": "2021-05-11T04:40:25.573Z",
      "content": "<p>Never thought I could be a part of finding aliens. It's soooo cool !😍👽😍👽</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Never thought I could be a part of finding aliens. It's soooo cool !😍👽😍👽",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 1304442,
      "postDate": "2021-05-12T16:13:02.180Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://xkcd.com/638/\" target=\"_blank\">https://xkcd.com/638/</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "https://xkcd.com/638/"
    },
    {
      "id": 1302618,
      "postDate": "2021-05-11T16:23:04.990Z",
      "content": "<p>This competition reminds me of \"Men in Black Series\" Lol XD</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This competition reminds me of \"Men in Black Series\" Lol XD"
    },
    {
      "id": 1301455,
      "postDate": "2021-05-11T04:56:47.130Z",
      "content": "<p>so we are looking for aliens with telescope images and some special signal. what if aliens doesn't use signal to communicate on their planet ? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "so we are looking for aliens with telescope images and some special signal. what if aliens doesn't use signal to communicate on their planet ? ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1302584,
          "postDate": "2021-05-11T15:59:55.857Z",
          "content": "<p>If they are not using radio communications, this particular competition won't find them. But it will help us put more stringent upper limits on how many planetary systems have powerful radio transmitters. <a href=\"https://rdcu.be/ckpP8\" target=\"_blank\">As Cocconi and Morrison said in their 1959 paper</a>, \"The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero.\"</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "If they are not using radio communications, this particular competition won't find them. But it will help us put more stringent upper limits on how many planetary systems have powerful radio transmitters. [As Cocconi and Morrison said in their 1959 paper](https://rdcu.be/ckpP8), \"The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero.\"",
          "votes": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1301444,
      "postDate": "2021-05-11T04:47:31.690Z",
      "content": "<p>Excited to discover, other unknown life forms!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Excited to discover, other unknown life forms!"
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1300943,
      "author_name": "Michal Bogacz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-10T21:14:09.607000",
      "content": "<p>Or maybe the aliens have created a competition to see if we can find them? 🙉 Good luck everyone! </p>",
      "votes": 16,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1300969,
          "author_name": "inversion",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2021-05-10T21:41:01.247000",
          "content": "<p>\"Kaggle Competition hosted by [redacted, need to know basis only]\"</p>",
          "votes": 14,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1301354,
          "author_name": "Kamal Das",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2021-05-11T03:24:34.300000",
          "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/inversion\" target=\"_blank\">@inversion</a> </p>\n<p>an unrelated question… whenever I try to upload an image i get an error \"We have disabled uploading forum attachments for the time being. Please use an alternative host for your file, and link to it from your forum post.<br>\nSorry for the inconvenience!\"</p>\n<p>However, I see some like above have images/gifs … what I am doing wrong?</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1301877,
          "author_name": "Last Scene",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2021-05-11T09:34:00.790000",
          "content": "<p>What if some aliens created a competition \"how to search earth people's signal and cheat it\".</p>",
          "votes": 3,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1300950,
      "author_name": "Steve Croft",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-10T21:21:23.190000",
      "content": "<p>With tens of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, we think it's pretty likely they're out there somewhere. You're trying to help us build better algorithms to search for them in data from some of our planet's most powerful telescopes.</p>",
      "votes": 11,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1301350,
      "author_name": "Kamal Das",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-11T03:22:20.907000",
      "content": "<p>“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1301434,
      "author_name": "Finn_Wang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-11T04:40:25.573000",
      "content": "<p>Never thought I could be a part of finding aliens. It's soooo cool !😍👽😍👽</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1304442,
      "author_name": "Paul Fornia",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-12T16:13:02.180000",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://xkcd.com/638/\" target=\"_blank\">https://xkcd.com/638/</a></p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1302618,
      "author_name": "Athar Sayed",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-11T16:23:04.990000",
      "content": "<p>This competition reminds me of \"Men in Black Series\" Lol XD</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1301455,
      "author_name": "Rishabh Chaurasia",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-11T04:56:47.130000",
      "content": "<p>so we are looking for aliens with telescope images and some special signal. what if aliens doesn't use signal to communicate on their planet ? </p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1302584,
          "author_name": "Steve Croft",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2021-05-11T15:59:55.857000",
          "content": "<p>If they are not using radio communications, this particular competition won't find them. But it will help us put more stringent upper limits on how many planetary systems have powerful radio transmitters. <a href=\"https://rdcu.be/ckpP8\" target=\"_blank\">As Cocconi and Morrison said in their 1959 paper</a>, \"The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero.\"</p>",
          "votes": 5,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1301444,
      "author_name": "Becky Behn",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-05-11T04:47:31.690000",
      "content": "<p>Excited to discover, other unknown life forms!</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1300943": "Or maybe the aliens have created a competition to see if we can find them? 🙉 Good luck everyone! ",
    "1300950": "With tens of billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, we think it's pretty likely they're out there somewhere. You're trying to help us build better algorithms to search for them in data from some of our planet's most powerful telescopes.",
    "1300933": "<img src= \"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEZ3m0SFpeTux8e4sV_TLFEqufMkeeBqtl7g&usqp=CAU\" alt =\"Titanic\" style='width: 200px;'>",
    "1301350": "“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson",
    "1301434": "Never thought I could be a part of finding aliens. It's soooo cool !😍👽😍👽",
    "1304442": "https://xkcd.com/638/",
    "1302618": "This competition reminds me of \"Men in Black Series\" Lol XD",
    "1301455": "so we are looking for aliens with telescope images and some special signal. what if aliens doesn't use signal to communicate on their planet ? ",
    "1301444": "Excited to discover, other unknown life forms!"
  }
}