SETI@Home Publishes Skymap

An anonymous reader writes "The skymap of where in the night sky to find the most promising SETI@Home signals is reported today, along with the research plan for the March Stellar Countdown project. The dedicated use of the Arecibo Telescope to revisit these spikes, pulses, and steady signals, focused on 166 star candidates. Those 166 were pruned from the five billion signals that have been found since 1999, depending on the signal's persistence, closeness to a known star, and frequency. The next step is particularly fascinating, if a signal appears to have increased since the first observation put that star on the checklist."

Comments

Re:"Star candidates"?

[mbadolato]

Or combine them! Each week we get to vote a new race out of the universe, and at the end, the final two races get married.

And here's the surprise: the newlywed alien couple will have Disaster Area play at their wedding, and be given their own Heart of Gold Spaceship as a wedding present!!

Re:If the signal has INCREASED?

[pizen]

Could you imagine if we managed to discover, decode and re-transmist some alien television or radio signal?

We could all watch Omicron Persei 8's version of Single Female Lawyer.

Aliens

[TrollBridge]

Would interstellar aliens be treated the same as illegal aliens? Unless of course they had passports or green cards, the interstellar aliens I mean. And would illegal aliens be jealous of interstellar aliens? And if they (the interstellar aliens) became citizens, they'd no longer still be interstellar OR aliens, right? Would they (illegal aliens) still receive free healthcare and education? Would the interstellar aliens (who became citizens and are no longer interstellar or aliens) have to pay taxes? Wouldn't the until-recently-interstellar-aliens then be upset that illegal aliens don't?

These are some serious questions that need to be addressed before we invite more aliens into the country, I think.