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

[Zero Powers]

Spike, looks like your skeptic engine is humming along just fine.  No
need for any tune-ups there...

BBC News Online is reporting that a radio signal from deep space is
not from aliens, according to astronomers. The scientists quelled
rumors that spread across the web after New Scientist magazine
reported that a signal picked up by a telescope in Puerto Rico might
be from an alien civilization.

But the Seti at home project's chief scientist, Dr. Dan Wertheimer, told
BBC that, "It's all hype and noise…. We have nothing that is unusual."

The BBC News Online story also cited Dr. Paul Horowitz of Harvard
University. "It's not much of anything at all. We're not investigating
it further," Horowitz said, according to the story. He reportedly said
what the telescope picked up was "not new and definitely not a
signal."

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64818,00.html/wn_ascii

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:12:20 -0700, Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Zero Powers
> >
> > WASHINGTON: Scientists from SETI, the worldwide project for Search for
> > Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence claim to have detected what they
> > believe to be the first radio signal from an alien civilisation.
> ...
> >
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/837354.cms
> 
> Zero, this article is revving my skeptic-engine.  They list
> Dr. Korpela as a "SETI scientist", but all the google hits
> on him show only his involvement with SETI at home.
> 
> Zen koan: SETI at home and SETI are two very different things.
> 
> spike