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UFO Evidence From SOHO Satellite

Anonymous Coward writes "EuroSeti is set to reveal during the week of Jan 24-27 National Space Centre in Leicester, UK scientifically sound and verifiable evidence based on observations taken by the SOHO satellite and other satellites that indicate UFOs are present within our solar system. For the past two years, hundreds of extraordinary UFO-like images have been gleaned by a Spanish-based team using two space-based satellites. NASA initially tried to explain the images away as pixel faults, passing meteors or asteroids, etc., but when a European-led consortium presented them with images that clearly were none of the aforementioned, they 'clamped up.'"

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  1. Who knew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Small Office/Home Office satelite would do something the big commercial, governmental and scientific satelites couldn't! Amazing!

    1. Re:Who knew by Cerlyn · · Score: 3, Funny

      And how do we know that you, my friend, are not part of the conspiracy to cover this up?

      (/me puts on a tinfoil hat on to protect themself from the programming rays put out by the government that they learned to produce from the Du'horti that they learned from the Ma'khal that they learned from the J'dar that are really in control of us all!)

    2. Re:Who knew by IAR80 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Then how do you explain the little green fellow waving from the window?

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    3. Re:Who knew by IAR80 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nope. Just my sister's boyfriend comming to pick her up. :)

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    4. Re:Who knew by WatertonMan · · Score: 4, Funny
      And how do we know that you, my friend, are not part of the conspiracy to cover this up?

      The conspiracy to cover it up involved the DoS attack aka being slashdotted. The boys in the black jackets knew that no one of slashdot would accept the aliens because they used a closed non-open source computing environment and that it had already been done in Star Trek and X-Files. Plus they are all too hard for regular people to understand anyway. Then the UFO site goes down under the load and the government conspiracy can get back to doing trilateral control of the oil reserves.

    5. Re:Who knew by zaqattack911 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why do all alien species have an apostraphy "'" in their name?

      Maybe an alian race has an unusually easy to pronounce name. Like "Bob" or "people of Bob"

    6. Re:Who knew by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "A Small Office/Home Office satelite would do something the big commercial, governmental and scientific satelites couldn't! Amazing!"

      You gotta see how fast their people are though. Look at this guy:

      http://www.ufomag.co.uk/VidFast.jpg

      Now tell me he doesn't look high speed! No wonder they're getting more results than a bunch of beaurocrats!

    7. Re:Who knew by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

      apostrophe.
      The trophy they took from the apos, silly.
      Or maybe they're just Zappa fans.
      Guess we'll know when they begin to serve man.

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    8. Re:Who knew by Iguanaphobic · · Score: 2, Funny

      Guess we'll know when they begin to serve man.

      Really? I hear they're good with onions and a little brown sauce. :-)

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      Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
    9. Re:Who knew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. I had a friend who became Irish, and it no longer is funny.

  2. When UFO's Attack! by OutRigged · · Score: 5, Funny

    And when they come to Earth and systematically wipe us out one city at a time, one brave computer geek will upload a virus to thier mothership, and take the whole alien fleet out! They'll make movies out of this!

    Oh wait, they already did...

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    We're all just noise on the wires..
    1. Re:When UFO's Attack! by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
      And when they come to Earth and systematically wipe us out one city at a time, one brave computer geek will upload a virus to thier mothership, and take the whole alien fleet out! They'll make movies out of this!

      Just remember guys, a few things we know about these aliens so far: They're VERY susceptible to dying from earth based bacteria (War of the Worlds), their computers can be interfaced via Macintosh computers.. although I'm afraid we'll need to use OS9 or Classic mode to do that since they aren't advanced enough to use a BSD kernel yet (Independence Day), and water is deadly to them! (Signs) Remember this when they start invading guys.

    2. Re:When UFO's Attack! by CybSirius · · Score: 5, Funny

      We could just post the URL for the mothership and wait for the Slashdot effect...

    3. Re:When UFO's Attack! by Bicoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      If they try any of that crap, the MPAA will sue their extraterrestrial asses for copyright infringement before they can say "Take me to your leader." After 5 years of extensive lawsuits, do you really think they'll have the will to live, let alone run a massive full-scale invasion?

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  3. Can anyone prove the web-site exists? by Jack+William+Bell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, I know they are claiming that the so-called 'Slashdot Effect' has rendered it invisible, but do we have any independent witnesses? Any physical proof? No...

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  4. Woops they are gone already! by Prince_Ali · · Score: 3, Funny

    Colonel: "They've seen us! Prepare ship for Light Speed."
    Dark Helmet: "No, no, no, Light Speed is too slow."
    Colonel: "Light Speed too slow?"
    Dark Helmet: "Yes. We're going to have to go right to...Ludicrous Speed!"

  5. foo by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    To: Ms. Dana Sculley,

    I told you so.

    Regards,

    Fox

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  6. Profile by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Funny

    Umm... Wouldn't the profile of a flying saucer, viewed from a satellite be, um, circular?

  7. Let's hope they come soon. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple might go really bankrupt sometime and then we have no weapons left to use against them.

    1. Re:Let's hope they come soon. by IAR80 · · Score: 5, Funny

      We could upload them the audigy drivers.

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  8. Consistent Aliens by 1nv4d3r · · Score: 3, Funny
    Good to see they've stuck with the tried and true 'saucer' body style they've used since the 40s. The aliens must be immune to NIH.

    If humans had these ships they'd at least have have fins or something by the next season.

  9. alien economy? by Narcocide · · Score: 3, Funny

    mabye the aliens can give me a job...

    1. Re:alien economy? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      mabye the aliens can give me a job...

      Nah! They only seem to hire wacky celebrities. Plus, they never let Haffa visit home for vacation.

  10. It's about time ... by Raiford · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... I have been getting pretty bored and annoyed with the current lifeforms inhabiting this planet.

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  11. Yeah, and looks like they are in trouble... by Junta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like they've taken damage and are leaking pixie dust.
    Oh no! Tinkerbell's going down!

    Heh, just a memory of MST3K and the cheesy effects of some movie... How can you not laugh your ass off after seeing that 'actual picture'. They should have stuck with weird blurry blobs they could blame on poor atmosphere/camera focus, this is so ridiculous.
    Why is this not 'it's funny, laugh'?

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    XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
  12. They have been ./'dotted by StarTux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can see this adding to their conspiracy theories:

    "The US Govt hit us with a massive denial of service attack after we broke this story, which means they are trying to hide something".

    StarTux

  13. I can't reach the site.... by Ugmo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has it been slashdotted or...

    It's a Government cover-up!!! THEY don't want us to see the evidence so they enlisted Slashdot to nuke their server.

    The truth is out there!

  14. 75% of the Variance in UFO Sightings by Baldrson · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe now that some more people want to start being scientific about UFOs they'll take a look at improving this formula that accounts for 75% of the variance in the frequency of UFO activity per square mile:

    (FemaleStateLegislatorsPercapita2001*CostOfLivingG roceryItems2000*(AIDSTotalPercapitaThru2001/4+Suic idesPercapita1990+10*MurderPercapita2001)*(America n_Indian_Eskimo_or_AleutPercapita1990+Scotch_Irish Percapita1990)/BlacksPercapita1990)

  15. Damn it by geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I have to filter out Timothy too. I'm down to like 2 "editors" left.

  16. Re:Why by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Funny

    Verbing weirds language.

    -- Calvin

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    I write in my journal
  17. Re:There is no group called Euroseti! by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Funny
    Good grief, Slashdot is turning into the National Enquirer.

    I'm thinking of submitting one of these stories:
    • Kabalists Apply Fourier Transform to Torah and Result Proves to be OpenBSD 3.3 Kernel (much sought after UltraSparc III version)!!! !
    • CmdrTaco says: My mother was tentacle raped by a Space Alien (and here I am)
    • Government Mind Control Satellite Rays Make Male Computer Geeks Download Naughty MPEGs
    • Elvis Appears to Bill Gates, Tells him India is Next Market
  18. good link, great pic by Xtifr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I see what they're talking about now. That photo looks exactly like an early eighties video game UFO! No wonder they're convinced this is real! :)

  19. Slashloid? Tabdot? by radpole · · Score: 5, Funny

    New slashdot headlines:

    Britany Spears impregnated by CowboyNeal.

    CmdrTaco blood is made of taco sauce.

    Timothy's brain is removed and no one noticed.

    Oh well thats why I keep reading slashdot you never know what is next.

  20. Re:Why by jc42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A "UFO" is just an unidentified flying object.

    Yeah; I just saw a UFO out of my window here. It landed in a nearby tree. It was probably either a sparrow or a downy woodpecker, both of which are fairly common in this neighborhood. But it's getting dark, and the critter was too far away to identify clearly.

    So it was definitely a UFO.

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  21. Re:alien economy? (+5 Flamebait) by rampant+mac · · Score: 2, Funny
    mabye the aliens can give me a job...

    A little cliche twist...

    On Klacknar, job finds you!

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    I like big butts and I cannot lie.
  22. SOHO satellite hack??? by jamesk · · Score: 2, Funny

    So has anyone taken credit yet for hacking into these SOHO Satellites image databases and inserting these pics???

  23. A Mac, of course... by dcavanaugh · · Score: 3, Funny

    For compatibiity with the alien systems. There may very well be other aliens (using Windoze), but they can't get out of their own galaxy without rebooting or encountering BSOD. The resources these aliens could have used to improve and stabilize their systems were foolishly squandered on DRM.

    1. Re:A Mac, of course... by Cruciform · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or give them Linux... since they'd be using bleeding edge technology it'd be months before they got working drivers, and the death rays would be offline for the interim :)

      Unless Alien hardware developers are more open with their driver specs :)

  24. Re:Yes it does by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's telepathic communication which is quite feasible as well. You think of something and I try to guess it. BTW, I've just read your mind. Guess what? You're clueless.

  25. Re:Shoddy Thinking at it's best. by AeiwiMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because evidence that appears on its face to be strong yet comes from a completely incredible (i.e., not credible) source can usually dismissed without further examination. It's a time-saver.

    This is a techniques which the shadow government use to keep there work secret.

    They mix facts with fiction and release it trough a not credible source.
    The most used source is Hollywood.

    You can find clues about real projects in films/series like.
    X-files
    7 days
    Stargate.
    MIB

  26. Re: Mind Control Lasers vs. Tin Foil technology by MisterMook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Sir,

    Thanks to recent advances in technology mind control lasers have never before been as safe and as effective as they are today. Insights from confidential sources have allowed us to make past limitations in our systems obsolete. Now mind control lasering technology relies on non-material interference bands and goes directly into each subject regardless of most terrestrial technologies jamming efforts.

    Please cease your /. revolutionary activities at once and report to your Control.

    Thank you,
    They

  27. Kang is our leader but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    don't blame me...*I* voted for Kodos!

  28. Re:Not only that by orkysoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, they can receive Fox affilite stations on Omicron Persei 8, which is 1000 light years from here!

    Lrrr: "I don't get it. Why does the largest friend not simply eat the other five?"

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
  29. And, OF COURSE... by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, what a coincidence: the picture shown on that guy's computer (the movies are slashdotted anyway...) resemble... wow, a flying saucer! The same shapes that have been used in all the hoaxes from the last fourty years! Now I'm convinced.

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    1. Re:And, OF COURSE... by geek · · Score: 2, Funny

      No kidding, we all know aliens fly around in giant cubes. I mean, DUH.

  30. Re:How does the virus work? by KewlPC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Assuming that the aliens designed their computers the same way we do, there is still virtually no chance of a virus we made even running on their computers.

    1)Completely different CPU instruction sets
    2)They probably have some form of network security.
    3)Even us stupid human sysops know that you don't just run any old program that you get off the network. You verify that the person who gave you the program is trustworthy, then you verify that the program itself doesn't do anything bad by running it on a standalone system.
    4)The only way to get their computers to run our code would be to root their OS.
    5)Of course, we wouldn't know anything about their OS. And since they're aliens, they probably use EBCDIC instead of ASCII ;)

  31. Re:One question? by VoidEngineer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I don't have a PhD in this subject or anything, so you may be correct.

    As I understand it, however, data can 'travel faster' than photons.

    For instance, assume that we both have direct fiber optic connections from our personal computers to the slashdot servers. So, all information is traveling between us at the speed of light.

    Data theory and logic suggest that in order for us to be communicating at all, via 'the internet', we have to both have a web-browser that can transmit HTML, a network protocol stack, a computer screen and keyboard on which to view this information, and so forth. Further, we could also deduce that the other person is a carbon based life form, which possesses DNA, and has grown up in a social environment, such that it learns 'English'. At the very minimum, this can be encoded as a couple of megabytes of information, if not a gigabyte. All of which was transmitted to me the very second that I looked at your message.

    Now, one response to this may be that all of this information/data is transmitted in parallel, and it hasn't traveled faster than the speed of light.

    On the other hand, there is an argument that information can flow faster than photons.

    Let me put it this way: If you encode information on the photon itself, then the data is confined to the physics of the photon. If you encode the information on the wave-equation of the photon, then one can determine and transmit information about states which exceed the speed of light.

    The real meat of this post, then, goes back to the previously mentioned scenario. Imagine that we are connected via fiber optics from our personal computers to slashdot. Also, assume that our fiber optics actually transmit information at the speed of light without latency. Now then, assume that we set up our computers to recieve 'push' information from Slashdot's servers, and we both stand in front of our monitors. Also, assume that we are 180 degrees from each other. For the purpose of this argument, assume that there is no latency in regards to processing of the packets, and so forth.

    You ------ Slashdot ------ Me

    Here is the thought experiment: Slashdot sends an update to both you and me, at the speed of light, via fiber optics. It does this by sending a network packet out it's network card, which is then split into two identical packets by a splitter (one of those mirrors which seperates polalized light, or some similar contraption). The two packets travel to you and me at exactly the same speed, and arrive at the same time.

    Now then, I claim that it is true that the network packet travels from Slashdot to Me at no greater velocity than the speed of light (c). I also claim that the network packet travels from Slashdot to You at no greater velocity than the speed of light (c). However, I also claim that there is information transmitted between you and me, at that moment in time, regarding the status of the other packet. This information is transmitted via the wave-equation, not the photon. It's transmitted via the context and the nature of the observation, not with the obersvation itself. In this case, I think that the information passed between You and Me, regarding this network update, has traveled at twice the speed of light (2c), due to quantum parity of the network packets.

    If this is not the case, and data is confined by the speed of light, then the thought example must be modified. Perhaps a 1/2 multiplier is needed somewhere within the thought example.

    Anyhow, I don't know all the answers, and I'm not claiming what I've said is absolute. I do know, however, that there are definately other scientists on our planet who believe that information can be encoded on the wave-equation, and not just on the photon. In that instance, as I understand it, data can be transmitted faster than the speed of light.

    Anyhow, I gathered that from reading and studying articles by Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Fermi, Einstein, Chamberlain, Turring, and Knuth. But I'm not on par with them. I hope that it is obvious that this thought experiment is relevent to UFOs and the topic at hand.

    Anyhow, I could be wrong.

  32. Space-based satellites by javajedi · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...a Spanish-based team using two space-based satellites."
    This apparently yielded much better results than the Polish-based team who used two ground-based satellites.

  33. Long-distance communications: by tynman · · Score: 2, Funny

    As the alien spaceship leaves its homeworld, it begins letting out a piece of string. It continues to let out string as it travels, stopping by the occasional asteroid to pick up more raw materials for string. When it reaches its destination, they use the string to communicate with the homeworld. No, dummy, not by talking into a tin can! That would require sound waves, which would be limited to the speed of sound. They tug on the string in Morse Code. Of course, they wouldn't call it Morse, 'cause the person on their homeworld who invented it would be named something like "Boeulrak". So they tug on the string in Boeulrak Code. Instant intergalactic communication! All brought to you by the miracles of a ball of string! (Would this hypothesis of communication be called "String Theory"?)

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  34. Re:One question? by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Three words: you have no clue."

    Three words: you cannot count.

  35. Re:How does the virus work? by micromoog · · Score: 2, Funny
    IAAC (I Am A Coder)

    And you think that gives you some kind of authority? Please, this is Slashdot. We're all a bunch of self-proclaimed coders here.

  36. nasa's hiding something by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 3, Funny
    NASA initially tried to explain the images away as pixel faults, passing meteors or asteroids, etc.

    They are always pulling that kind of rationalization or disinformation.

    Once, when I showed them a picture I had of an alien on the moon, they tried to explain it away as being Buzz Aldrin. When I kept confronting them, they clamped up.

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  37. In other news.... by teridon · · Score: 2, Funny

    a large, flaming head takes a bite out of the sun!

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  38. You forgot... by Eric+Damron · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Just remember guys, a few things we know about these aliens so far: They're VERY susceptible to dying from earth based bacteria (War of the Worlds), their computers can be interfaced via Macintosh computers.. although I'm afraid we'll need to use OS9 or Classic mode to do that since they aren't advanced enough to use a BSD kernel yet (Independence Day), and water is deadly to them! (Signs) Remember this when they start invading guys."

    You forgot one: Country music causes their heads to explode. (Mars attacks) Maybe you left it out because Country music has the same effect on a lot of us too... :-)

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  39. Re:Not it doesn't by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 2, Funny

    we do not analise the wire to get information, we analize the electrtic current patters of on-off-on-off.

    Um, I don't analize shit. er, well, I guess I do.

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  40. Re:How does the virus work? by eatdave13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but how many of us get paid?

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  41. Re:How does the virus work? by JimPooley · · Score: 2, Funny

    You ask the computer for a cup of tea, and it spends all its time thinking why an ape descendant should want dried leaves in boiling water with juice squirted from a cow...

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    "Information wants to be paid"
  42. Re:Cool video by nordicfrost · · Score: 2, Funny

    From realufos.com:
    I asked the world famous psychic Sollog about this video.
    He says it is REAL!


    Well, I'm convinced!

    Seriously; this happens over New York. Is this the only footage of this UFO? At any time, there's so many camera crews in atcion in Manhattan (ref. the WTC plane crash first footage) that someone had to get this on tape in addition to the ones in the helicopter.

    I believe in extraterrestial life, but I also beleive that if you can travel 10 + light years, you don't smash into a planet like a Mars probe (ref. the Roswell incident.) or expose yourself like this.

  43. Spaceship OS's and DRM by HopeOS · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I'm sorry, but your spaceship is operating outside of your home galaxy. Please contact sales for a service upgrade."

    -Hope