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| 2004-09-02 |
| AMATEUR radio hams are usually excited by the faint buzz of a distant shortwave station, but a group of scientists believe they have received a message from extra-terrestrials. Astronomers think that a signal picked up by a radio telescope last year shows the highest probability yet that ET's family may have returned his call. In February 2003, scientists involved in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the huge radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at about 200 sections of the sky. Unexplained radio signals had been detected twice by the same telescope in these areas and scientists were trying to confirm the findings. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #26 I'm getting a signal... it says... "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!" |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-09-02 11:46:08 PM |
| #25 Jeeez.... I'll bet it's nothing but interstellar CB. Breaker, Breaker 193847365029375937 this is the AgurilianLovePatrol got your flagerrettes in a high glossy? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-02 4:35:33 PM |
| #24 LOL Well my house just recently quit looking like a Russian "trawler" Now I am down to just 7 antennas. I have been listening to 1420 megahertz here all day. It us populated by some wheezy old fart congratulating each other on the bowel movement they just had. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 4:06:03 PM |
| #23 You had radio signals coming out of your ass? Weird. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-09-02 1:45:19 PM |
| #22 I had an enigma when I had a colonoscopy. I didn't like it. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-09-02 1:39:00 PM |
| #21 Classic thread already? |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-09-02 10:58:54 AM |
| #20 Detected on three separate occasions, the signal is "an enigma", say researchers. Old Duran Duran records, I bet; nothing interesting to see / hear here... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-09-02 10:38:14 AM |
| #19 Two months? More like two days. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-09-02 10:31:09 AM |
| #18 Actually the wavelength emission is a new physical particle called Democraticum with a half life of two months. It is characterized by it's ability to flip flop neutrons to protons back and forth again at an alarming rate, resulting in the complete annihilation of any matter associated with it. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-09-02 9:58:15 AM |
| #17 The unexplained signal appears to be emanating from a point between the constellations of Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, "That's no moon..." |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-02 9:28:37 AM |
| #16 Yep. I knew it. The tobacco industry, Haliburton, Big Oil. They're all behind the dinaosaurs' demise. I bet the Joooos were somehow involved, too. And Cheney. |
| Posted by: nada 2004-09-02 8:41:44 AM |
| #15 .com I will never let a robot assist me down the stairs. I don't need protection from that terrible secret of space. I better go to bed. My son in law is comming at noon so we can Install a win32 FORTRAN 77 compiler on his laptop. I am a glutton for punishment. I feel like handing him a "Learn C in 24 Hours" book and a computer with Debian on it "It's POSIX but it's free" (Don't pay any attention to the Moonbats son, don't poke them and they will leave you alone. Never tell them you are a Republican and a Marine. They will get so frothy mouthed it's bound to damage some valuable equipment.) |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 7:47:27 AM |
| #14 .com - Don't do that, I'm trying to quit! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-02 7:32:41 AM |
| #13 It's well known that the dinosaurs were good with geometry - so the elegance of 1x4x9 would not be a stretch for them... As Bowman said, "How naive to think the sequence stopped in 3 dimensions". You've heard of The Terrible Secret of Space, right? Well, here's the Terrible Secret of the Dinosaurs. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-02 6:32:27 AM |
| #12 Specalist researchers have studied the big black monolith and stated "It's a huge dinosaur turd." |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 6:15:39 AM |
| #11 Or they might just do the "2001: A Space Odyssey" thing and stumble in awe around the big black monolith. Oh, wait... Effing witty, Bulldog! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-02 6:07:25 AM |
| #10 Imagine the Iranian response... "Death to Planet Zopos!" etc. With the usual chance of success. Or they might just do the "2001: A Space Odyssey" thing and stumble in awe around the big black monolith. Oh, wait... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-02 6:01:27 AM |
| #9 "Extraterrestrial life discovered; women, minorities hardest hit..." That's probably what they would write too. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-09-02 5:51:53 AM |
| #8 Lol! The Slamists would suddenly find some fucking sura that Mohammed predicted it - and that they're Muslims at heart. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-02 5:39:49 AM |
| #7 Imagine the Iranian response to proven ET life - IT SHALL BE DESTROYED INTSHALLAN. HERESY! They'd cut the nuke programme and invest in sending up suicide spaceships to ravage the sky-borne infidel. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-02 4:31:56 AM |
| #6 How good for fragile human self-esteem would it be to find that we share the universe with extraterrestrial life forms so advanced they make the smartest members of our species seem comparable to cockroaches. I'm not convinced it would go down well. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-02 4:20:07 AM |
| #5 NEWS JUST IN!!! They have identified the source of the radio signal!!!!! It's Terry McAuliffe barely heard above the roar of the Republican train!! |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-09-02 2:15:18 AM |
| #4 A6166 = Zenster |
| Posted by: Anonymous6166 2004-09-02 1:58:10 AM |
| #3 If any of you want to help with this project, go to SETI@home and download their screensaver. You computer will process their data during any idle time. My own has been running almost 300 hours worth of Arecibo data blocks for the last several months. Imagine if it was your own computer that cracked the first extraterrestrial signal. That would be bragging rights for a lifetime and your 'puter would probably end up in the Smithsonion. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6166 2004-09-02 1:57:32 AM |
| #2 Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey claim that beaming a radio signal that can be detected 10,000 light years away would demand a million billion times as much energy as just shooting out matter on which the data is inscribed. Assuming, of course, that your "target" civilization could find the matter on which the data is inscribed. Or that there aren't higher-bandwidth methods of sending the data via EM waves, once you know where the system is (like, for instance, laser comm links). Although I'm disappointed in the headlines; I thought the NYT would report something like "Extraterrestrial life discovered; women, minorities hardest hit..." |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-09-02 1:48:22 AM |
| #1 With all that is and isn't a part of the matrix, Sheesh! I want flying things; Mexico, Tecates, sketchy videos, things darting about. But some damned radio signal that sayz, 12121212121212 don't cut it, MAN! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-02 12:57:26 AM |
