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No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space

Posted by Soulskill on from the feel-free-to-panic-anyway-though dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Rumors are going around that SETI astronomers have detected possible alien signals from space. Bottom line: signals were detected when the Green Bank Telescope was pointed at target planets discovered by Kepler, but the signals are almost certainly interference from man-made satellites orbiting the Earth. This happens pretty often, so we need to be aware that these kinds of false positives pop up."

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  1. Nothing to see here. Please move along. by cashman73 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What they heard was actually just a jumbled and garbled transmission of a Ron Paul speech, lost in the medium of our satellites caused by the release of sewer gas into the upper atmosphere by supporters of Rick Santorum. Oh, wait, it wasn't scrambled, but it was still a Ron Paul speech, so it still made no sense to anyone on this planet. More at 11!