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."

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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.

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

[AvantLegion]

I think in the next 50 years we will see space travel as common as transcontinental passenger jets are today.

Doubtful. The thing about passenger jets is that they take you to places that you have business going to - places with stuff like oxygen.

How long will it be before "common" space flight is even possible, let alone with destinations to go to?

50 years is far too short.

Only?

[eericson]

I know 24 hours may not sound like a lot, but just consider all they other "hard" science projects out there competing for resources. Getting 3 days on one of the largest radiotelescopes in the world is actually quite an achievement. Especially if you consider than most scientists consider SETI to be a bunch of crackpots.

-E2