SETI -- Searching the Cosmos by auntietk

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Aug 26, 2010

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Sometimes I worry about myself. I come up with the weirdest stuff! Maybe I should explain why this is funny. On the other hand, maybe I should just leave well enough alone! LOL! For those of you whose first language is not English ... SETI is the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. It's a research organization that is literally searching the cosmos (or the universe, also known as space) for signs of intelligent life. SETI uses satellite radio dish receivers in their work, and those receivers tend to point in the same direction in order to amplify any signal that might be coming in. These flowers are shaped much like a radio dish receiver. For those of you who are botanically challenged no matter what language you speak ... this flower is called a cosmos. So my photograph and its title form a little pun. :D

Comments (28)

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Faemike55

12:02AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Nice work, Tara! I'm a firm supporter for the SETI project! Of course the Cosmos is the 'official' flower

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barbdennist

12:11AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

I like your humor as much as I like your photography. Have you seen the movie Contact? If not, you should watch it. Oh, and before I forget, Cosmos is one of my favorite flowers and I love your photo of it.

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Katraz

1:18AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

I've always loved these flowers.

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bazza

1:47AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Nice shot and title lol well done!!

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lyron

1:54AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Beautiful!!

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helanker

2:31AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

HA ! I see what you mean, now that you explained what SETI means. Thank you :-)

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durleybeachbum

2:50AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Hilarious! I can now imagine them swinging very slowly round in unison. Hey, my sunflowers do that..what are they up to?

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Mondwin

3:27AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Amazing shot!!!!!!!!bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma

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DAVER2112

6:27AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Very nicely composed and captured. :)

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bmac62

7:18AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

What a great connection you've made. Faemike55 has it well in hand. These blooms are very pretty and indeed looking for something...a spot of sunshine too:)

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MrsRatbag

8:44AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

A LITTLE pun? LOL! Fantastic title, and a beautiful shot!

MrsLubner

8:51AM | Fri, 27 August 2010

A very pure and innocent looking flower and you worked your magic with the Power of 3.

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beachzz

12:37PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

I speak English and had no idea what SETI was, so ty for the 411!! Gorgeous shot, too, btw!!!

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Meisiekind

12:46PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Hehe... I know SETI from the film Independence Day!!! We also have cosmos flowers here every April! They grow wild next to most roads in our province! Even in Afrikaans they are pronouced the same just spelled with a K... Kosmos! Wonderful image of one of my fav flowers Tara!

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billcody

4:54PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Hehe......I am not speaking English, I only act like I`m speaking English.... Yes, I know what SETI is, they try to telephone to the stars, but nobody calls back! No arms, no legs, or no tentacles? Or no interests? But SETI is soooooo small? I thought it is giantic....hehehe Wonderful flowers pic, Tara, I do not know how we call this beauties here..

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Chipka

6:23PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

Ya know, there's there are plants out there that might actually have the ability to pick up radio transmissions...something to do with sensitivity to the EM spectrum of which visible light is only a very narrow band. No one has yet proved that plants do synthesize foods from other forms of EM radiation...they probably don't, but wouldn't it be a hoot if SETI was listening for radio transmission bubbles from alien societies as chatty as we are only to learn that those pretty flower thingies over in Ethel Higgens' garden have been picking up the Miss Universe beauty pageant for decades...okay, time delayed Miss Universe, back when the contestant from Proxima Centauri was disqualified because it was learned that her tentacles were fake, and that she was only female for half the year. But anyway...I'm rambling. I love the shot and the complex pun in terms of its name. Knowing the name of these flowers, and their habit of pointing in one direction, I'm now in the mood to listen to some music by Vangellis and maybe search YouTube for clips of the Cosmos tv series...just so that I can hear Carl Sagan talking about "billions and billions" of stars..."more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on the planet earth." Or something like that.

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jocko500

8:51PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

very lovely

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hipps13

11:28PM | Fri, 27 August 2010

wonderful colors warm hugs, Linda Kaye

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cannonn

9:13AM | Sat, 28 August 2010

beautiful!!

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CoreyBlack

8:41PM | Sat, 28 August 2010

I believe there are BILLIONS and BILLIONS of flowers in the cosmos. Nice shot. I'm still waiting to be beamed up by the way.

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RodS

1:02PM | Sun, 29 August 2010

Beautiful photo, and I love your tie-in with Cosmos and SETI! I had to chuckle at chipka's comments - I loved that show, and listening to Dr. Sagan and his "billions and bilions..." I truly do hope we find intelligent life somewhere out there - there's not much of it on this planet anymore... Of course, the 64,000 dollar question is: If we recieve a signal from somewhere 350,000 light-years away, are they still there? Wadd'ya think, Dr. Hawking, Dr. Kaku?

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