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Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims (iop.org)
"Strange pulses of cosmic light might be signals from hundreds of different alien civilizations -- or just the latest false alarm in the tortuous search for E.T.," reports Space.com. Slashdot reader Okian Warrior shares this excerpt from the paper which argues that the signals "cannot be caused by instrumental or data analysis effects."
Finally, we consider the possibility, predicted in a previous published paper, that the signals are caused by light pulses generated by extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to makes us aware of their existence. We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis. The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the Sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis.
The researchers add that "at this stage, this hypothesis needs to be confirmed with further work," and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI, tells Space.com that "If I were a betting guy, I'd bet this is an artifact of the way they processed their data."
The researchers add that "at this stage, this hypothesis needs to be confirmed with further work," and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI, tells Space.com that "If I were a betting guy, I'd bet this is an artifact of the way they processed their data."
Anonymous Coward getting a first post, study claims.
For once we should learn from our planet. If you are in a vast ocean of space and see a faint light it is ... Anglerfish - run!
> The SETI question has large potential for positive change in society in general.
If by "potential" you mean where we learn that governments have covered up the truth for decades, that humans were genetically engineered, that we don't own the dam planet, that we aren't the sharpest tool in the galaxy by a long shot, that some advanced species treat as us mere animals and a delicacy, that every religion is man made, that our mathematics is extremely linear, that our politics is a complete and total joke, that our science is primitive (at best), that almost everyone has a false belief that "There is never enough", and that we STILL haven't figured out how to get along on a planet without money when animals have done this for millions of years, then OK.
Oh wait, you mean that cloaking, FTL, teleportation, and time travel is possible, the discovery that consciousness IS the underlying energy, that there are 6 fundamental forces, that we can heal every disease given the plant variety we have, that there are "levels" to consciousness, that white holes recycle the energy from black holes, that our experiments with high energy physics is damaging our planet, that the physical reality is only one sub-set, that money will be come completely valueless due to zero point energy, that creativity is the greatest gift that we can offer, etc., then yeah, we'll learn all that good stuff too.
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First Contact is coming ~2024. Are you ready for a new cosmic paradigm?
The signal decodes as one repeating byte, 101010. Now to find out exactly what the question was...
Wow. That was shockingly incoherent. Congratulations.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .