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SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates*

Posted by Hemos on from the peering-into-the-future dept.

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."

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  1. Re:24 hours? by tupshin · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    -Tupshin

  2. Aw man by ericdano · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  3. father figure by Debian+Troll+Returns · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. First Light! ;-) by richie2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. Whew by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)

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    1. Re:Whew by comet_11 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  6. What the signal will look like? by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!"

  7. Re:24 hours? by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.