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Astronomers have detected 'strange signals' that may come from a star 11 light-years away
Business Insider ^
| 07/14/17
| Dan Mosher
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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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: callingartbell
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To: Artemis Webb
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Disinterested Press ©2017 |
"I offer you this final warning, Make American Great Again." |
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posted on
07/16/2017 2:51:27 PM PDT
by
StAnDeliver
(Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
To: Artemis Webb
I got your frequency right here
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posted on
07/16/2017 3:07:22 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Artemis Webb
63
posted on
07/16/2017 3:09:18 PM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
To: themidnightskulker; litehaus
Yeah, but it might look like this...
3.06636 51432 03613 41102 63402 24465 22266
... if they have seven fingers.
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posted on
07/16/2017 3:15:11 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: Artemis Webb
Wonder what frequency the “strange signals” are on?.
65
posted on
07/16/2017 3:15:13 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacted the most.)
To: Artemis Webb
My bet is that it’s grant request time...
66
posted on
07/16/2017 3:21:02 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: Artemis Webb
67
posted on
07/16/2017 3:23:25 PM PDT
by
skepsel
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: fso301
You are making the quite reasonable assumption that the aliens are no more technologically capable than we are.
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posted on
07/16/2017 3:33:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
(This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
To: Artemis Webb
during which time the signal was picked up and observed to be "almost periodic"Well then, that makes the story "almost interesting."
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posted on
07/16/2017 3:35:18 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: PlateOfShrimp
On the gripping hand... Massive banks of laser cannon?
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posted on
07/16/2017 4:26:10 PM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Bullish
Theyre not signals unless somebody or something is actually sending them. 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.
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posted on
07/16/2017 4:39:54 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
To: null and void
You are making the quite reasonable assumption that the aliens are no more technologically capable than we are.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?
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posted on
07/16/2017 4:51:18 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Vaduz
Wonder what frequency the strange signals are on?.C band... 4-5 Ghz.
73
posted on
07/16/2017 4:56:36 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Artemis Webb
Was it Jodie Foster on the phone with her dad?
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posted on
07/16/2017 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
Noob1999
To: Axenolith
ROFL! Classic click-bait line. Well played.
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posted on
07/16/2017 5:18:15 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: fso301
Not me, but they
apparently can travel here and we certainly can't travel there!
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.
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posted on
07/16/2017 5:54:42 PM PDT
by
null and void
(This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
To: fso301
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):
http://www.lightyear.fm/
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:06:08 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: null and void
Perhaps we will actually know some day. True. What the ET crowd mostly doesn't understand is how rare life as we know it is.
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:13:24 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Artemis Webb
“Hello, how are the muslims doing we sent you?”
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posted on
07/16/2017 8:17:38 PM PDT
by
Molon Labbie
(In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
To: 2banana
You already drank yours? ;-P
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posted on
07/16/2017 8:21:05 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Adoption is God's grace in human action.)
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