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A news story from television station KTVU, Oakland (California) that appeared on the internet on January 15 has led some to believe that a credible radio signal from space may have been recently detected - a signal that might be ascribable to extraterrestrial intelligence.
This story, while obviously exciting, is somewhat misleading, and derives from some miscommunication between the reporter and Dan Werthimer, who runs the University of California, Berkeley SETI program.
Dan was describing Berkeley's new instrumentation for detecting very short radio pulses - a signal type that might be used by extraterrestrials to "ping" our world to get attention. He also mentioned the detection of such a pulse, a few months ago (not "last week", as reported in the internet story). That pulse was actually recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope, in New South Wales, Australia several years ago during a search for pulsars, but only recently looked at by researchers at West Virginia University as they sifted through these old data. Their results were published on September 27 of last year.
Originally posted by dgtempe
When i think i wasted so much memory downloading that silly SETI software and then i had a hard time getting rid of it too, it makes me mad.
Why have people monitor along when the truth will never be acknowledged?
Originally posted by dgtempe
Why have people monitor along when the truth will never be acknowledged? What are we, stupid?
Originally posted by dimensional
I was listening as well Area51Compound when Art said that statement. It was quick, but he said that Dr. Steven Greer had some information on a recently picked up (hush hush) signal by SETI that could very well be of extraterrestrial origin. Art said that was one of the things (hopefully true) that Dr. Greer would be speaking on further this Sunday (mar 30, 2008).