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Aliens. They're finally here. (1 Viewer)

If we ever find something legit, it will likely be so anti-climatic.  We'll pick up on something that we think is alien but we can't understand.  We'll then consider sending them a message that might take, like, 95 years to arrive.

 
Now the I think about it, Trump's hair is eerily similar to that old 50's film where aliens controlled humans with lettuce on their heads.

 
From the news section at SETI@home...

"Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above.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. 
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The interesting part is that it was detected by Russians...  :tinfoilhat:

 
Juxtatarot said:
If we ever find something legit, it will likely be so anti-climatic.  We'll pick up on something that we think is alien but we can't understand.  We'll then consider sending them a message that might take, like, 95 years to arrive.
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Still sounds pretty thrilling to me. Regardless of the message, the intercepting of any message from the universe would be amazing even if it was just some ######## alien yelling "get in the hole."

 
I hope the aliens like to came out of the toilet and gave presents to everyone with a lot of fiber in their diet.

 
Dickies said:
If they are seeing dozens of signals from aliens all the time then we're ####ed.
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Maybe the signals are all about 6 alien friends that live a major alien metropolis and hang around a lot in an alien beverage shop.

 
They've decoded the message.

It says they are coming to Earth to serve man.

I can't wait for them to get here.

I want to be the first man served. 

 
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