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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 03, 2004 8:13
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] SETI: First
radio signal from alien</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>--- Patrick Wilken <<A
href="mailto:Patrick.Wilken@Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE">Patrick.Wilken@Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>> Actually if you read the <A
href="mailto:Seti@Home">Seti@Home</A> site this looks to be a typical <BR>>
internet storm caused by the original NS article:<BR>> <BR>> <A
href="http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html">http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html</A><BR>>
<BR>> On 3 Sep 2004, at 16:31, Patrick Wilken wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >
The New Scientist article is more informative:<BR>> > <A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341">http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341</A><BR>>
> One of the odd things is that its apparently nowhere near any
known<BR>> > stars. Its seems like the <A
href="mailto:SETI@Home">SETI@Home</A> folks are taking it in their <BR>>
> strides and want to rule out other obvious artifacts before
getting<BR>> > too excited. It would be cool even if they had just found
an <BR>> > interesting natural phenomenon.<BR><BR>Actually, the critics
are thinking that the signal may just be a<BR>Listening Room effect, that the
apparent source may be way out there,<BR>but it's actually an artifact of
something close to the telescope<BR>bouncing off the shell twice. This is
possible.<BR><BR>What I find so intriguing is that they say that every time
you lock<BR>onto the signal, it is at that 1140 ghz freq (?) and then it
hunts<BR>around 30 or so hz range. That it always starts at this freq no
matter<BR>when you start listening, implies to me that it might be an example
of<BR>an entangled photon FTL comm device, that it instantaneously
senses<BR>when someone is listening and starts shifting its freq then.
Perhaps<BR>the physicists here could comment on this
possibility...<BR><BR>Such a dull but odd signal with FTL capabilities would
be ideal for<BR>interstellar nav beacons...<BR><BR>=====<BR>Mike
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