SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates*

Neuropol writes "In the most rescent Seti@home news letter. Seti recieved (only!) 24 hours of telescope time at Arecibo to investigate interesting points in the sky where signals have not only shown up once but several times in data crunches in the last 4 years. The Planetary Society web site has an excellent summary of the reobservations. The Seti web site lists the reobservation targets and the 7,000 users whose computations directly contributed to finding them."

Comments

Eh?

[The Bungi]

rescent

What you say?

Re:Eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody set up you the Troll.

Re:Eh?

[more fool you]

recieved
rescent
reobservation

Thank god for the "Editor" union...

Re:24 hours?

[tupshin]

Ummmm...read the article. Three days, eight hours each. They sound very non-geeky ;-)

-Tupshin

Aw man

[ericdano]

My name is not on the list. Damn. Oh well, I hope we find something regardless.

father figure

[Debian Troll Returns]

let's just hope that if they ever find anything using SETI that it's not fucking jodie foster's dad.

Re:father figure

[Debian Troll Returns]

speaking of contact, did anyone else notice that in the scene where jodie foster is sitting on the bonnet of her car with her laptop that she's actually updating her apt.sources to include the SETI@home client? thank you.

Re:father figure

[drdink]

Impressive, seeing the movie came out in 1997 and Seti@Home was released May 17, 1999. I'm sure Jodie knew that Debian would have that package 2+ years later, though...

Re:father figure

[xdroop]

let's just hope that if they ever find anything using SETI that it's not fucking jodie foster's dad.

I think we all hope that what ever it is, it has better things to do than that.

Re:24 hours?

[Exiler]

Yea, I read that right after I posted. At least I'm normal for a slashdotter. ;P

First Light! ;-)

[richie2000]

Telescope geeks rejoice. But what should one say for a radio telescope? "First wave"?

Re:Last 100 years has been about flight, next.. sp

[pe1rxq]

I'm only 30, heavy smoker but I think with stem cell research I can always get a new pair of lungs long enough to see the day I can fly me to the moon.


With an attitude like this you can better hope for stem cell research to come up with an artificial brain....

Jeroen

Whew

[Timesprout]

Thank god they did not have more telescope time or they might have found my secret super villian orbital base where I am currently using the weightless environment to concoct a series of deadly patents which will allow me to take over the world.
(insert evil laugh here)

Re:Whew

[comet_11]

I'm sorry, I've already thought of and patented the process of hatching an evil scheme.

What the signal will look like?

[jabbadabbadoo]

It'll be "intelligent noise". Any civilization capabable of sending radio signals will be poluting the universe with signals from various sources, just like we've done for the past 80 years.

Perhaps if we're lucky, we'll receive the first episode of their SCI-FI series - "Pale Men From Earth!"

Re:24 hours?

[Dr. Photo]

Ummmm...read the article. Three days, eight hours each. They sound very non-geeky ;-)

That's terrible!

Don't these people realize they're looking for signals from the stars, and the stars only come out at night?!

And even if they do find something, anything an alien civilization happens to broadcast during daylight hours is likely to be nothing more than soap operas, talk shows and infomercials.

I insist that the scientists wait until prime-time, and equip the telescope with a cable descrambler, to catch all the good alien shows.

Re:24 hours?

[edgrale]

I insist that the scientists wait until prime-time, and equip the telescope with a cable descrambler, to catch all the good alien shows.

Nothing like Good Alien Pron. I hope they're green =)

Re:i thought

[JonnyCalcutta]

I just assumed that since every Brit get's a free trip to either Moonbase Alpha or Gallifrey every year that it happened in the USA as well. I guess that's why they told us to keep it under our hats.

I can imagine the fun

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Seti: "Hey Look - We can confirm that this is a radio signal!"

World:(begins to panic)"Really? How far away are they? How old's the signal?"

Seti: "Well, these signals came from that star cluster over there about 950,000 years ago."

World:(disappointed)"Almost a million years ago - and they never invented space travel"

World: //scraps space plans

Re:24 hours?

[Aliencow]

But then they'll get sued by some kind of Super alien DMCA... I wonder if their encryption is like DVD, crackable with a few lines of perl... Actually maybe they code in english, and talk in perl...they're aliens and probably sound like it anyways..

Re:Water's not the only liquid in universe

[tigersha]

And what, may I ask are you going to do with an Alien? Screw it/her? Not bloody likely. This is not Startrek, you know, its Real Life!

Let's start a pool

[Anonymous Coward]

What will happen first? SETI will find proof of extra terrestrial intelligence, or weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq? Perhaps we need WMD@Home. WMD in Iraq has a lot fewer candidate sites, but so far the odds look about the same.