[extropy-chat] SETI: First radio signal from alien

[Gina Miller]

http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Lorrey 
  To: ExI chat list 
  Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] SETI: First radio signal from alien



  --- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:

  > Actually if you read the Seti at Home site this looks to be a typical 
  > internet storm caused by the original NS article:
  > 
  > http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html
  > 
  > On 3 Sep 2004, at 16:31, Patrick Wilken wrote:
  > 
  > > The New Scientist article is more informative:
  > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341
  > > One of the odd things is that its apparently nowhere near any known
  > > stars. Its seems like the SETI at Home folks are taking it in their 
  > > strides and want to rule out other obvious artifacts before getting
  > > too excited. It would be cool even if they had just found an 
  > > interesting natural phenomenon.

  Actually, the critics are thinking that the signal may just be a
  Listening Room effect, that the apparent source may be way out there,
  but it's actually an artifact of something close to the telescope
  bouncing off the shell twice. This is possible.

  What I find so intriguing is that they say that every time you lock
  onto the signal, it is at that 1140 ghz freq (?) and then it hunts
  around 30 or so hz range. That it always starts at this freq no matter
  when you start listening, implies to me that it might be an example of
  an entangled photon FTL comm device, that it instantaneously senses
  when someone is listening and starts shifting its freq then. Perhaps
  the physicists here could comment on this possibility...

  Such a dull but odd signal with FTL capabilities would be ideal for
  interstellar nav beacons...

  =====
  Mike Lorrey
  Chairman, Free Town Land Development
  "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                           -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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