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I love it how gullible people truly believe some visitor or a distant planet would want or care to communicate with earth.....these people must assume humans are so special,,,,ahhhh
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
My understanding as a previous participant of the SETIatHome program is that false positives are quite common.
Originally posted by infiniteankh
But false positives don't appear all that common, so we shall see, I guess.
The reason you don't hear them announced, is that SETI folks realize they are common, and do all kinds of screening on all the positives that are identified.
After all the screening is done, I wouldn't say false positives are rare, I'd say they are nonexistent, because there has never been a positive announcement, so how could any of them be false if there aren't any? The "WOW" signal mentioned previously was very interesting, but never confirmed, which is a requirement.
It sounds like they didn't word things as clearly as they might have initially, and have corrected it.
Originally posted by ConspiracyTruth
reply to post by Illustronic
The WOW signal was never proven to be a false alarm, though, it was just never followed up by confirmation and was presumed to be a non-ET anomaly. Note, back before SETI was more private it had to report such news to government first before going public. So, who knows if they discovered more than we ever learned about. : )
PS, I recommend reading the source of this article - seti.berkeley.edu... - over the article about it.edit on 6-1-2012 by ConspiracyTruth because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by dilly1
I love it how gullible people truly believe some visitor or a distant planet would want or care to communicate with earth.....these people must assume humans are so special,,,,ahhhh
Why not? We send signals into space.. There could be many alien races out there, that are at a similar stage of evolution to us..
Originally posted by R3KR
Kinda strange, you find an alien signal and make a PDF of the wave form....who does that ? Why is there not a wav file or a video ?
Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by dilly1
I love it how gullible people truly believe some visitor or a distant planet would want or care to communicate with earth.....these people must assume humans are so special,,,,ahhhh
Why not? We send signals into space.. There could be many alien races out there, that are at a similar stage of evolution to us..
Originally posted by Kr0nZ
btw if we ever made contact with an ET race, i dont think it would be with radio transmissions, radio is SLOW like REALLY SLOW
Originally posted by cloaked4u
co you realize what seti is?
Originally posted by cloaked4u
Originally posted by cloaked4u
co you realize what seti is?
my dad's brother designed it.
Originally posted by cloaked4u
Originally posted by cloaked4u
Originally posted by cloaked4u
co you realize what seti is?
my dad's brother designed it.
he goes by many names, gene, oscar died. and my father went to the south pole. [/quot
yeah , f # with that.