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"chibiabos" |
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02 Sep 2004 05:04:24 PM |
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OT: Arecibo; Are they talking to us? |
Heard a blurb on the radio at noon today. Seems the folks at Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico are interested in some radio signals coming
from interstellar space. All I heard was that they'd received the
signals at two distinct times, and that the SETI folks were intrigued.
Anybody else heard about this? Where can I go to get the latest
information?
-chib
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Member of SMASH
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(email: change out to in)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arecibo; Are they talking to us? |
03 Sep 2004 10:02:01 AM |
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:04:24 -0700 in episode
<020920041504243485%chib@outreach.com> we saw our hero chibiabos
<chib@outreach.com>:
Heard a blurb on the radio at noon today. Seems the folks at Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico are interested in some radio signals coming
from interstellar space. All I heard was that they'd received the signals
at two distinct times, and that the SETI folks were intrigued.
Anybody else heard about this? Where can I go to get the latest
information?
Right now, you can go to the Google news search thingie, type SETI, and
get a batch of recent articles about the flap. Apparently, it's just a Net
rumor that was sparked by a "New Scientist" article. Which article wasn't
even all that hyper about the signal. It was kind of a "isn't that
interesting" kind of thing. But nobody was doing cartwheels or anything.
<g>
Here's an article on the Planetary Society's website:
http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html
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| User: "C. Wilson" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arecibo; Are they talking to us? |
02 Sep 2004 05:55:58 PM |
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:04:24 -0700, chibiabos <chib@outreach.com>
wrote the following in alt.atheism:
Heard a blurb on the radio at noon today. Seems the folks at Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico are interested in some radio signals coming
from interstellar space. All I heard was that they'd received the
signals at two distinct times, and that the SETI folks were intrigued.
Anybody else heard about this? Where can I go to get the latest
information?
-chib
Try http://www.seti-inst.edu/
Not sure how often they update their info though.
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| User: "nobody" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arecibo; Are they talking to us? |
02 Sep 2004 07:52:56 PM |
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chibiabos <chib@outreach.com> wrote:
Heard a blurb on the radio at noon today. Seems the folks at Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico are interested in some radio signals coming
from interstellar space. All I heard was that they'd received the
signals at two distinct times, and that the SETI folks were intrigued.
Anybody else heard about this? Where can I go to get the latest
information?
It's internet legend:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3621608.stm
SETI has a snowball's chance in hell of detecting a signal. It's also
a distinct possibility that our technological civilization is a fluke.
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