Dr. SETI

最近聽膩筆電裡的音樂了
上班的時候改聽iTunes Radio
 
有個很棒的電台AFM*Radio
是以科學為主的談話性節目 
就是在這個電台聽到Dr. SETI唱的歌
 
知道SETI也是八年前的事了
原來他們也不只是好嚴肅的人呢
 
其實一邊畫CAD也沒有聽得很認真
但一直聽到有人唱ET, speak up, we’re listening!
耳朵都豎起來了...
 
是很可愛的歌伴著輕快的吉它聲
歌名就叫ET, Speak Up
 

ET, Speak Up
lyrics Copyright © 1998 by H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D.

The scientist at her computer considers the Fourier transform:
The same nulls and peaks she's looked at for weeks, and nothing exceeding the norm.
If only an alien signal would fall on her giant array,
The thunder would crash, lights ring and bells flash. But that isn't happening today.

Chorus:

ET, speak up, we're listening, we've waited for far too long.
Send us a sign on the hydrogen line, to show that the skeptics are wrong.
Spectrally pure, so we can be sure it's intelligence singing her song.
Oh ET, we've waited so, (waited so, waited so), ET we've waited so long.

SETI was funded through NASA at twelve million dollars a year.
A bargain, you know. We spend that much dough each Superbowl Sunday, on beer.
But that didn't satisfy Congress. They'd rather the money be spent
Reducing the sum of the deficit fund by point oh oh oh six percent.

Chorus

Now we must privatize SETI. We're starting to muster the troops,
Recruit Star Trek fans, and radio hams, and set up some non-profit groups.
Our common objective is global: an organized survey of space
To ferret out clues which science can use as proof of an alien race.

Chorus

The amateur at his computer is finally getting his wish.
He's starting to see a hint of ET received through his satellite dish.
He'd love to have twelve million dollars, but works with what he can afford.
His hits verified by peers far and wide, their findings cannot be ignored.

Chorus