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SETI@Home Revisits Its 100 Best Signals

Posted by Hemos on from the one-from-the-vaults dept.

cmbrothe writes "The Planetary Society is running an article about SETI@Home's plan to revisit its 100 most promising signal candidates. The article also outlines the criteria for selecting the candidates."

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  1. The "Wow" Signal by szquirrel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just for fun, I googled the 1977 "Wow" signal mentioned in the article and every so often in SETI news. Found this good BBC article on the subject.

    This blatant karma whoring is brought to you by the letters "ET".

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  2. Tycho2 vs. Hipparcos by KjetilK · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm a bit surprised that they refer to the Hipparcos catalogue as the most comprehensive star catalogue, when the Tycho 2 catalogue is far bigger.

    Sure, the astrometry (positions) in Hipparcos are better than in Tycho 2, and Hipparcos contains more information about the stars than Tycho 2 (e.g. variability), but still. I would in fact think that Tycho 2 would be better for SETI than Hipparcos, but they may have their reasons.

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