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SETI@Home Publishes Skymap

Posted by michael on from the long-distance-call dept.

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."

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  1. FP! by Fazer · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP!

    1. Re:FP! by gfody · · Score: -1, Troll

      YoU fAiL iT! ..sorry, just burning karma

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  2. first post! by Skates1616 · · Score: -1, Troll

    and who actually cares???

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BOOYA!!!

  4. Breaking News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goatse publishes Goat Map!

  5. I AM BARRY BONDS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Suck my huge black cock or I'm going to hit you with my bat.

  6. SETI... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...is totally gay

  7. Um, excuse me, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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    Excuse me, but has Seti found any signs of intelligent life out there? No?

    So, why are they advising us where we should look?

  8. SETI is a crock- here's why by SuperBanana · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know what? These people are a disgrace. They're little more than cultists, and to quote Contact, "Yep, looking for little green men".

    Here's why.

    • Chance of physically intercepting the signal is next to nothing. They don't get much radio time, and they can't cover much of the sky.
    • Now chances of actually recognizing the signal as intelligent life are unknown. They've got some great theories. Who knows if they're right?
    • Ok, maybe you see it and you recognize it. Can you decode it?
    • Alright, so who cares if you decode it, you FOUND INTELLIGENT LIFE that existed at least several hundred of years ago
    • Ok, so you send a reply. You figure out where that source planet will be when the signal finally reaches it.
    • "The aliens get it" requires the same hurdles. Mainly, they have a SETI program, they've got their ears pointed in the right direction, they identify the reply as intelligent life, etc. Hell, it assumes they haven't nuked themselves into extinction like we're on the steady path towards.
    • Now, lets say they decide to reply(ie, they're not xenophobic, they don't think it's pointless, etc). It takes another couple hundred years to get back to earth, assuming they aim right etc.
    • Now you're assuming someone here on earth actually is still listening. In a couple hundred years, is anyone going to remember SETI? We have trouble keeping languages around!
    • Great, someone's actually listening and gets the signal. You've just had the century-long equivalent of the 20 second bar conversation. "Hi". "Hi". "So, uh, send radio signals often?"

    SETI people conveniently ignore almost all of these obvious problems that make the entire search pointless.

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  9. Re:Should we be concerned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You dopey fuck. You're the basic slashdot reader - don't actually know anything so why bother asking questions? It's like you're trying to act like you're aware of the subject, but in reality, barely know anything. Go back to burger flipping. You dumb fuck.

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  11. Signals from space by Lost+Penguin · · Score: 0, Troll

    All the signals from space are messages:

    Penis enlargements
    Breast enhancements
    Displaced aliens with large amounts of money that need YOUR bank numbers.

    Do we REALLY want to reply?

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  12. Re:Testes testes, 1..2.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Screw #slashdot. What a ghey channel. All people do is talk about anal sex and blow jobs from goats. Usually these types of comments originate from drdink himself. The conclusion is that drdink is a flaming-buttfucking-cumburping-ass-puppet-all-hogt ied-up-with-no-place-to-go who's happily been on the receiving end of many a good bukkake session from time to time. He sits at home masturbating his cock all over his area51.slashnet.org server in anticipation of hoping to get another pizza boy to come over and lick sauce off of his swolen-and-blistered-from-too-much-jacking-off cock while dressed as a little school girl whore with a buttplug in his hairy ass late at night.

  13. Pointless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seti is like watching a slow motion food fight at a school for the retarded. You can see every step coming and it's just tiresome, pointless and messy.

  14. Re:Should we be concerned... by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ha ha ha. Nobody but me gets the joke, so here's the answer: Only if they're black.

    I'm gonna get modded a troll for this, but it was so worth it. Good reference, bc90021.

  15. Re:I'm NOT trolling by mikedaisey · · Score: 0, Troll


    They marking you "troll" because of the idiocy of your opinions, and the asinine way you construct your arguments.

  16. Re:Goatse Receiver, ass contortionist, dead at 55 by broeman · · Score: -1, Troll

    you have to much time to spend. Get a job! or at least help in a community center or something.

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