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Posted on 07/16/2017 11:48:20 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
Astronomers say they've detected "strange signals" coming from the direction of a small, dim star located about 11 light-years from Earth.
Researchers picked up the mysterious signals on May 12 using the Arecibo Observatory, a huge radio telescope built inside of a Puerto Rican sinkhole.
The radio signals appear to be coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star that's not yet known to have any planets and is about 2,800 times dimmer than the sun. Abel Méndez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, said the star was observed for 10 minutes, during which time the signal was picked up and observed to be "almost periodic".
Méndez said it's extremely unlikely that intelligent extraterrestrial life is responsible, but noted that the possibility can't yet be ruled out.
"The SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] groups are aware of the signals," Méndez wrote in an email to Business Insider.
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QPSK?
Yeah, but it might look like this...
3.06636 51432 03613 41102 63402 24465 22266
... if they have seven fingers.
Wonder what frequency the “strange signals” are on?.
My bet is that it’s grant request time...
You are making the quite reasonable assumption that the aliens are no more technologically capable than we are.
Well then, that makes the story "almost interesting."
Massive banks of laser cannon?
No, no. no, if a signal falls in the woods and nobody hears it then, depending on how you look at it, you're a glass half empty/glass half full/glass is twice the size needed for the purpose - kind of guy.
For some reason, the ET crowd always wants to believe that other lifeforms are more advanced. Who is to say we humans aren't the most advanced?
C band... 4-5 Ghz.
Was it Jodie Foster on the phone with her dad?
ROFL! Classic click-bait line. Well played.
My guess, and it's just a guess, is if extraterrestrial life exists, mostly it will be the local equivalent of pond scum, but of the multicellular life that actually got to the point of looking at the stars in wonder, our level of technology is somewhere in the middle.
Perhaps we will actually know some day.
I think there are ‘people’ out there; and with all those stars and possible planets, it makes sense that some might be more advanced than we are. But I’m not sure what picking up their signals would do for us, if we could decipher them; except perhaps to inform our philosophies in some ways.
I can’t get this to work real well, but it’s interesting (works best on Chrome):
True. What the ET crowd mostly doesn't understand is how rare life as we know it is.
“Hello, how are the muslims doing we sent you?”
You already drank yours? ;-P
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