OT: Signal from aliens?

[sachmo71]

Interesting story on CNN. I doubt it's an ET, but it gets the brain moving...


LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday.

The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.

There are other explanations besides extraterrestrial contact that may explain the signal. New Scientist said the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself.

But the mystery beam has excited astronomers across the world.

"If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England told the magazine.

It was broadcast on the main frequency at which the universe's most common element, hydrogen, absorbs and emits energy, and which astronomers say is the most likely means by which aliens would advertise their presence.

The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI+home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope.



If this has already been posted I apologize.

[rkmsuf]

When is Jeff Goldblum going to weigh in on this?

[sachmo71]

Harvey Fierstein.

http://www2.ice.usp.ac.jp/wklinger/film/jpg/idharvey.jpg


"Oh, I'd better call ma!"

[JeeberD]

Jodi Foster would know what to do...

[Franklinnoble]

Elvis is on his way back.

[rkmsuf]

http://img88.exs.cx/img88/8296/coneheads.jpg

[Kodos]

The signal says:

"Vote Kodos is November!"

[Fonzie]

Woohoo! I may finally get to go home!

[Ben E Lou]

I'm getting a recreational vehicle NOW.

[cthomer5000]

cool.

[heybrad]

I posted on the aliens message board. This signal is just them saying "Heybrad."

[sachmo71]

heybrad

[rkmsuf]

MARS IS ATAKNG1!!! OMG WA MUST PROT3CT H3YBRAD!1!1! OMG LOL

[cthomer5000]

"We must protect. this. house."

[JAG]

They said they come in peace!

[Coffee Warlord]

SETI is now quelling the hype about this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3621608.stm

As horribly paranoid as this sounds, first thing in my head when I read that is 'coverup!'

[Hammer755]

I waited through that entire movie to see the alien, and it was her friggin' father!

[Butter]

Why would they even come here when 75% of this place is WATER?!?!?!?

[rkmsuf]

we should reflect back Achy Breaky Heart. No alien will ever come here.

[Franklinnoble]

I'll let you guys know if I pick up anything on my son's baby monitor when I get home.

[Ben E Lou]

They said they come in peace!And the bastards will leave in pieces!!!

[Coffee Warlord]

I say we nuke the site from orbit.

[rkmsuf]

http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Suc-khoe/2002/11/3B9C290E/mip.jpg

[DanGarion]

President Thomas Whitmore : Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
[Crowd cheers]

We will beat them!

[JeeberD]

http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Suc-khoe/2002/11/3B9C290E/mip.jpg

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They're scarier than I ever could have imagined!!!

[rkmsuf]

Paging Fresh Price...paging Fresh Price.

[Franklinnoble]

I say we nuke the site from orbit.
Lemme go draw some crop circles for you to aim at first...

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

If the same pattern is heard more times then I think it could possibly be a message.
The question now is how do we decipher i
t?

[Franklinnoble]

If the same pattern is heard more times then I think it could possibly be a message.
The question now is how do we decipher i
t?
B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

[Desnudo]

"There are other explanations besides extraterrestrial contact that may explain the signal. New Scientist said the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself."

So it may be a message from millions of miles away...or the telescope talking to itself?

[Franklinnoble]

A schizophrenic telescope... what will they think of next?

[Tigercat]

Its like the old joke that crazy sounding people on the street may indeed be talking to God. We are so skeptical off the bat of something beyond us that we think our telescopes are going crazy!

[Fonzie]

Why would they even come here when 75% of this place is WATER?!?!?!?

Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

[Glengoyne]

B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

Nicely done.

[Shepp]

I'd guess I had better start putting aluminum foil on my head to protect my brain from the alien signals:D

[MikeVic]

Charlie Sheen would also know what to do. Being the scientist that he is.

[JAG]

Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

Well played.

[Franklinnoble]

http://www.wildpinky.8m.com/howard.jpg

[judicial clerk]

I say we nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

[Dutch]

Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

:)

[Kodos]

http://www.movieactors.com/photos-sf/mars.jpeg

ACK-ACCCK-ACK!


"We come in peace! Do not be afraid."

[MizzouRah]

SETI is now quelling the hype about this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3621608.stm

As horribly paranoid as this sounds, first thing in my head when I read that is 'coverup!'
I was wondering when this would happen. I don't think the public would ever know if we did contact another life form.


Todd

[Sectoid Leader]

It was my toaster oven.

Sorry.

[cthomer5000]

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