[longshadow]

man-made artifact, natural process, or is ET phoning home?

[longshadow]

nerd-like ping

[FesterUSMC]

My tinfoil hat is still on from the previous post about the new planets found...

[Roarkdude]

Signal Decoded: Tell John Kerry we KNOW that he was in Vietnam!

[Socratic]

"...or is ET phoning home?"

ET's child is teasing the Earthlings again. "Bad Gork. Stop that!"

[CHICAGOFARMER]

About time we.

I am over 10,000 units and 100,000 hours of computing at Seti.

Smile ET is looking at you.

[marblehead17]

ping

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting.

This one fact more than anything suggests an artefact or anomaly of the array.

[BluSky]

Can we send Jody Foster to investigate . . ., again?

[beezdotcom]

Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.

All your base frequency are belong to us.

[TheLion]

Just think....if it is a signal and we answer it, we will get an answer in about 2000 years! Astronomical distances just boggle the mind.

[searchandrecovery]

"Hello, I'd like a pizza to go, no anchovies."

[Phsstpok]

frequency of Hydrogen and a frequency shift? 1000 light years from the nearest star? Sounds like an interstellar craft, probably a Bussard Ramjet. You need to know the direction and duration of the frequency shift to know whether it's going away, passing at an angle or coming down our throats.

It could also be the deflector dish on a warp rider ship.

Most likely it's a hydrogen jet from an unseen black hole, but I like the other two prospects more (unless they're coming to seek revenge for us having broadcast My Mother The Car 35 years ago). You gotta think outside the box.

[minor49er]

Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization...

SIMPLY SEND 6 TIMES 10 TO THE 50 ATOMS OF HYDROGEN TO THE STAR SYSTEM AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, CROSS OFF THAT STAR SYSTEM, THEN PUT YOUR STAR SYSTEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND SEND IT TO 100 OTHER STAR SYSTEMS. WITHIN ONE TENTH OF A GALACTIC ROTATION YOU WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH HYDROGEN TO POWER YOUR CIVILIZATION UNTIL ENTROPY REACHES ITS MAXIMUM! IT REALLY WORKS!

[rotstan]

This sounds somewhat like the kind of behavior one might expect from a Bracewell Probe. Can't wait to see the followup from mainstream astronomers, if any.

[KevinDavis]

Hmmmmm....

Space Ping! This is the Space Ping List! Let me know if you want on or off this list!

[Physicist]

An SS433-type object, perhaps?

[TADSLOS]

Just AlGore pinging his lock box.

[aruanan]

“If [the aliens] are so smart, they’ll adjust their signal for their planet’s motion.”

The aliens will do whatever we conceive would be the best, most optimum thing to do under any particular circumstances; therefore, nothing that we see that doesn't conform to our expectations can be an indication of alien intelligence. So sad to hear "woulda, shoulda, coulda" emanating so unthinkingly from otherwise eminent pieholes.

[P.O.E.]

A dark dwarf, not part of a binary system, with a hole in its side?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Shigbo-2 or Chigbeaux-deux as the French foppishly call it? Sounds like a good name for a rapper.