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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. 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.

  2. 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!"