Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

[SlyPokerDog]

http://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-d...ible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Update for 9:30 p.m. PT Aug. 28: Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., weighed in on HD 164595 in an email to GeekWire:

“This is a bit of a puzzling story, as the Russians found this signal a year ago or so, but just didn’t let others know. That’s not good policy, as what you really want is confirmation at another telescope, but… Is it real? The signal may be real, but I suspect it’s not ET. There are other possibilities for a wide-band signal such as this, and they’re caused by natural sources (or even terrestrial interference).

“I just did a quick calculation of how much wattage they’d need to wield from 94 light-years (I think that’s the distance) in order to produce the apparently received signal, and that would be a big utility bill, even if they were directing the transmission (as opposed to broadcasting equally in all directions). It’s also the case that the known planet around the star is in an awfully tight orbit, which means it’s probably a place that’s hotter than Seattle’s best restaurant. Of course, there could be other planets there …

“So, not too much to say so far. However, we’re looking at this object with the Allen (not Alan) Telescope Array as I speak to you!”

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/

 

[julius]

wake me when they find signs of intelligent life on THIS planet.


/grumpy old comedian

 

[HailBlazers]

No different than NASA, Never A Straight Answer.

 

[PDXFonz]

Message reads "Yo momma so stupid..."

 

[blue32]

The mooninites on a patrol. Nbd

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

http://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-d...ible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/

If I told you it was an alien reddit feed you'd have it decoded and plastered all over this board in an hour.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

If I told you it was an alien reddit feed you'd have it decoded and plastered all over this board in an hour.

I'm interested in SETI and have posted links to Seth Shostak's podcast many times in this forum including just last week.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I hope aliens exist, and they are all white people. That would be awesome.

Or they are all black and tell us the inferior whites died off millions of years ago. Just aliens of any color would be cool if they don't wanna kill us.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I hope aliens exist, and they are all white people. That would be awesome.

Or they are all black and tell us the inferior whites died off millions of years ago. Just aliens of any color would be cool if they don't wanna kill us.

I hope they're pork eating Muslim nudists who announce that Mecca is actually in Salt Lake City.

 

[riverman]

I warned you guys about the alien cockroach, slug people from Zemo.....they are probably an advanced species without any need for weaponry

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[riverman]

Trump ran for president and they said....WAIT A MINUTE!!!! We better go back down there...I told you not to take those weird white people down there after the ice age

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I hope they're pork eating Muslim nudists who announce that Mecca is actually in Salt Lake City.

That seems like it was a South Park episode, or something similar.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Maybe they know that we know they pushed Lucy out of a tree 3 plus million years ago and they're coming back to silence us.

 

[Denny Crane]

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20091019074452AA6cWHx

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

So it's alien Hitler coming this way?

 

[ripcityboy]

It would be so funny if incidents like the WOW! Signal and this example were alien equivalents of faternity pranks. Just trying to f-ck with us. If they have any intellegence at all they'll stay away fom the human disgrace. The only thing our species spreads is death, greed and monumental stupidity.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So it's alien Hitler coming this way?

Denny hopes so.

 

[riverman]

Hopefully it's alien therapists, doctors, scientists, teachers and diplomats....with those MIB erase the memory things...eraser head aliens

 

[riverman]

I'm going to watch Contact tonight just for the hell of it

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm going to watch Contact tonight just for the hell of it

Wanna take a ride?

 

[Denny Crane]

Denny hopes so.

Hope they come here and make the oceans great (alive) again.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Hope they come here and make the oceans great (alive) again.

So do I!

 

[ripcityboy]

Hope they come here and make the oceans great (alive) again.

Didn't they do that in the Abyss? Oh no. That's right. Ed Harris has to save them when Michael Biehn goes apeshit from the decompression chamber. Maybe we should send him and Sigourney Weaver as emissaries to the aliens? They have a lot of experience with that sort of thing!

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm going to watch Contact tonight just for the hell of it

Lamest.

Ending.

Ever.

 

[riverman]

Lamest.

Ending.

Ever.

nobody can compete with Mars Attack anyway...

 

[e_blazer]

So, if I'm understanding this right, first we have to decode this and figure out if this is really a message from an alien civilization capable of building a Dyson sphere. Then we have to come up with a way to focus a high energy reply in their direction (thank goodness we don't have to build a Dyson sphere ourselves. We can't even build a wall along our southern border.) Then we have to send the message, probably saying, "Hi there! We're your dumb-shit cousins who can't even build a Dyson sphere. Just thought we'd introduce ourselves. Please don't eat us." Then we sit back and wait 95 years for the message to get there and who knows how many more generations for a response.

We've really got to get cracking on the sub-space communication system. And the warp drive and phasers.

 

[Natebishop3]

I have to be honest.... if we ever receive a generic message from an alien civilization, I vote not to respond back. It's possible they are just spamming the message (much like how we do it) and responding back might give them a new target.

 

[Chris Craig]

Ancient Alien theorists say yes