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SETI To Release Data To the Public
log1385 writes "SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is releasing its collected data to the public. Jill Tarter, director of SETI, says, 'We hope that a global army of open source code developers, students, and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.'"
Wow!
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Why now? Because now they found the alien mind control signal they have been looking for, the pink laser shining from the stars into the black iron prison. And now, now they unleash it onto the public. The plot thickens...
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
I guess they had their hopes up really high and didn't want the public to know if ET was out there before the government had time to prepare some form of press conference.
But honestly, I think its all a clever ruse. We'll get some bogus data on some random #'ed star, and the open source signal analyzers will derive that there is something there. After an intense round of "Whats going on?" and people wasting their lives away to decode the message, we'll learn that it was all a viral marketting campaign for a new Michael Bay Transformers movie.
Just remember, you heard it here first.
E.T.'s signal-processing technology should be much better than ours. Just ask them for help.
0. I have trouble believing in intelligent life on Earth.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
It's either the brain slug or the hypnotoad that compromised them, IMO.