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

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Anyone here up to speed on SETI at home?  Are they
> careful to never give out the same segment multiple
> times?

Actually, they do, and for a good reason: so one person can't spoof a
signal. The anomalous signal has been reported by multiple S at H users
who have processed the same segment. What they are careful to do is not
give the same segment to the same person or group twice.

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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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