Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

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    Update for 9:30 p.m. PT Aug. 28: Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., weighed in on HD 164595 in an email to GeekWire:

    “This is a bit of a puzzling story, as the Russians found this signal a year ago or so, but just didn’t let others know. That’s not good policy, as what you really want is confirmation at another telescope, but… Is it real? The signal may be real, but I suspect it’s not ET. There are other possibilities for a wide-band signal such as this, and they’re caused by natural sources (or even terrestrial interference).

    “I just did a quick calculation of how much wattage they’d need to wield from 94 light-years (I think that’s the distance) in order to produce the apparently received signal, and that would be a big utility bill, even if they were directing the transmission (as opposed to broadcasting equally in all directions). It’s also the case that the known planet around the star is in an awfully tight orbit, which means it’s probably a place that’s hotter than Seattle’s best restaurant. Of course, there could be other planets there …

    “So, not too much to say so far. However, we’re looking at this object with the Allen (not Alan) Telescope Array as I speak to you!”

    http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/
     
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    I'm interested in SETI and have posted links to Seth Shostak's podcast many times in this forum including just last week.
     
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    I hope aliens exist, and they are all white people. That would be awesome.

    Or they are all black and tell us the inferior whites died off millions of years ago. Just aliens of any color would be cool if they don't wanna kill us.
     
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    I hope they're pork eating Muslim nudists who announce that Mecca is actually in Salt Lake City.
     
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    I warned you guys about the alien cockroach, slug people from Zemo.....they are probably an advanced species without any need for weaponry
     
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    Trump ran for president and they said....WAIT A MINUTE!!!! We better go back down there...I told you not to take those weird white people down there after the ice age
     
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    That seems like it was a South Park episode, or something similar.
     
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    Maybe they know that we know they pushed Lucy out of a tree 3 plus million years ago and they're coming back to silence us.
     
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    So it's alien Hitler coming this way?
     
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    It would be so funny if incidents like the WOW! Signal and this example were alien equivalents of faternity pranks. Just trying to f-ck with us. If they have any intellegence at all they'll stay away fom the human disgrace. The only thing our species spreads is death, greed and monumental stupidity.
     
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    Denny hopes so.
     
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    Hopefully it's alien therapists, doctors, scientists, teachers and diplomats....with those MIB erase the memory things...eraser head aliens
     
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