Rumor: SETI has (supposably) found a signal emanating from the center of the universe

SETI ^ | 16 Oct 2006

[aft_lizard]

An official announcement is expected tommorow.

http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=4200

http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178899

[N. Theknow]

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[Diogenesis]

[Young Werther]

In the novel "The Mind Parasites" the Lunar Leaches Lose their Leash on Mankind! After the final battle the winners sense an intelligent being in a spacecraft passing our solar system just outside the orbit of Pluto!

Is this a precursor to that contact or..., (Star Trek First Contact was on SciFi this weekend. Might this be the {gulp} BORG!)

[Skywarner]

This just in...

SETI confirms: Keith Olberman is an alien.

Film at 11.

[Seriously, I hope the rumor that started this thread is true.]

[FostersExport]

What ever happened to this story anyway?

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6341

Presumably it came to nothing.

[exile]

Again with this pic? You seem to be a bit preoccupied.

[exile]

SETI could only pic out one word...EXTERMINATE!

[Arkinsaw]

Editor's update: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.

[Psycho_Bunny]

10:00 - 11:00 am PDT

Editor's note: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. 


Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US

[HitmanLV]

The editor of the first link posted this:

Editor's note: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week.

So there you go.

[exile]

"this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else."

Way to ruin the fun. Ruiner.

[kenth]

Okay. Well, I'll stop speculating, but there's no way I'm gonna stop waving my arms around.

[Constitution Day]

Editor's update: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.


Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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Also, I think you meant 'supposedly'. :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

From: http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=4200

Editor's update: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.


Don't mean to break your chops, but FWIW, according to the latest cosmological theories, the notion of the center of the universe is meaningless. Anywhere in the known universe is as good a center as any other.

[Dead Dog]

Especially if it is a disernable language, send in the open, un-encrypted. I've always been a bit concerned with the signals we've picked up before that were short bursts..never to be repeated. Kinda like military comm sets that sweep frequencies.

[the OlLine Rebel]

"(P.S. I never knew there was a center to the universe)"


Well, Bill Clinton is apparently the center of the universe, for 1.

[Constitution Day]

Okay. Well, I'll stop speculating, but there's no way I'm gonna stop waving my arms around.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Transmission begins:


"All your base are belong to us"


End of transmission


(I can't believe I was the first to post this!)

[DoctorMichael]

"......signal emanating from the center of the universe......."

Sorry, but this very phrase throws this story into serious doubt IMHO.

"......An official announcement is expected tommorow......"

See ya tomorrow.

[rwfromkansas]

I still wonder what it is even though it sounds like nothing significant