ET phoned home?

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...telescopes-toward-possible-signal-from-space/

Russian scientists have detected a signal that might be of extraterrestrial in origin. Other (radio) telescopes are taking up the search too/to confirm.

Click to read more...

 

[FLYLine27*]

Detected in in 2015 and it only leaked out now?

More government coverups.

 

[Oscar Acosta]

What a confident bet the guy has, a cup of Starbucks if they find alien life in the next 24 years! Those guys play for keeps in that office.

 

[Seb]

And if scientists here do pick up that extra energy on a radio dial?

“All we’d know is that there’s somebody and in this case 95 light years away – that’s 600 trillion millions by the way that’s a long way, who’s got a radio transmitter,†says Shostak. “So we’re not the only kids on the block, there’s something else intelligent out there.â€

It just made me woosh

 

[Hivemind]

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

I'm sure that many of you have seen the news reports of a "SETI signal" detected from the star HD 164595

I was one of the many people who received the the email with the subject "Candidate SETI SIGNAL DETECTED by Russians from star HD 164595 by virtue of RATAN-600 radio telescope." Since the email did come from known SETI researchers, I looked over the presentation. I was unimpressed. In one out of 39 scans that passed over star showed a signal at about 4.5 times the mean noise power with a profile somewhat like the beam profile. Of course SETI@home has seen millions of potential signals with similar characteristics, but it takes more than that to make a good candidate. Multiple detections are a minimum criterion.

Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there's really nothing about this "signal" that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it's relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.

But, of course, it's been announced to the media. Reporters won't have the background to know it's not interesting. Because the media has it, and since this business runs on media, everyone will look at it. ATA is looking at it. I assume Breakthrough will look at it. Someone will look at it with Arecibo, and we'll be along for the ride. And I'll check the SETI@home database around that position. And we'll all find nothing. It's not our first time at this rodeo, so we know how it works.

Bolding is mine. In short, this signal is not out of the ordinary for SETI, and is likely nothing at all.

 

[FLYLine27*]

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/



Bolding is mine. In short, this signal is not out of the ordinary for SETI, and is likely nothing at all.

Stop coming here to burst our bubble