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To: adorno
"If you can prove that poem came Alpha Centauri, I’ll accept it..."

I can't speak to their poetry, but their radio sucks.

"Last month, a story leaked to the press from the Breakthrough Listen Initiative (BLI), a world-wide decade-long effort to carefully search for artificial radio and optical signals. The story concerned the tentative detection of an artificial signal in the southern sky, observed by the Parkes Telescope in Australia early in 2019. NRAO’s sister instrument, the Green Bank Telescope, an important partner of BLI, is searching the northern skies. The star under observation was Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri triple star system. It’s the closest known star to the Earth, about 4.2 light-years away, but invisible to the naked eye. The signal (named BLC-1) was detected in one channel at 982 MHz. It drifted up slightly in frequency, (an indication that the transmitter is moving, or the electronics generating or receiving the signal are fluctuating somehow), and was only roughly localized in the general direction of Proxima Centauri."

63 posted on 07/23/2023 11:31:44 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt
I can't speak to their poetry, but their radio sucks.

If their radio sucks. their TV likely sucks too. Tell us about their internet. ;)
69 posted on 07/23/2023 12:18:27 PM PDT by adorno
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