No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 7, 2013 @09:44AM from the romantic-illusions dept.

astroengine writes "By focusing the Green Bank radio telescope on stars hosting (candidate) exoplanets identified by NASA's Kepler space telescope, it is hoped that one of those star systems may also play host to a sufficiently evolved alien race capable of transmitting radio signals into space. But in a study headed by ex-SETI chief Jill Tarter, the conclusion of this first attempt is blunt: 'No signals of extraterrestrial origin were found.' But this is the just first of the 'directed' SETI searches that has put some very important limits on the probability of finding sufficiently advanced alien civilizations in our galaxy."

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Re:They're hiding... by MaskedSlacker · 2013-02-07 17:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

Remember, we used to think the sound barrier was past us.
Uggh. I hate this stupid meme.
We NEVER thought the sound barrier was impossible to break. We thought it might be impossible at the time to build an aircraft that could handle the structural stress with the materials available at that time. We knew the sound barrier could be broken--bullets had been breaking it for decades. The two are NOT comparable in any way.