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SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: Rare excitement spread through the scientific community and the media when data from the Kepler Space Telescope indicated something strange going on around a star 1,500 light years away called KIC 8462852. An analysis of the pattern of light coming from the star suggested that a swarm of smaller objects was orbiting the planet. Scientists narrowed down the possible explanations for the data to either a swarm of comets or a group of alien megastructures. According to a story in Space Daily, an examination of KIC 8462852 by SETI, using the Allen Telescope Array, has failed to find any evidence that ET exists around that particular star.

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  1. Re:In other news, dog bites man, politician corrup by jopsen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just how is SETI not finding a signal in anyway shape or form news ?

    Following the scientific method a negative result is an equally valid result ;)