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sachmo71 09-02-2004 01:25 PM
OT: Signal from aliens?
 
Interesting story on CNN. I doubt it's an ET, but it gets the brain moving...

Quote:
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 09-02-2004 01:26 PM
When is Jeff Goldblum going to weigh in on this?

sachmo71 09-02-2004 01:27 PM
Harvey Fierstein.




"Oh, I'd better call ma!"

JeeberD 09-02-2004 01:32 PM
Jodi Foster would know what to do...

Franklinnoble 09-02-2004 01:41 PM
Elvis is on his way back.

rkmsuf 09-02-2004 01:44 PM

Kodos 09-02-2004 01:46 PM
The signal says:

"Vote Kodos is November!"

Fonzie 09-02-2004 01:53 PM
Woohoo! I may finally get to go home!

Ben E Lou 09-02-2004 01:54 PM
I'm getting a recreational vehicle NOW.

cthomer5000 09-02-2004 01:55 PM
cool.

heybrad 09-02-2004 01:56 PM
I posted on the aliens message board. This signal is just them saying "Heybrad."

sachmo71 09-02-2004 02:01 PM
heybrad

rkmsuf 09-02-2004 02:01 PM
MARS IS ATAKNG1!!! OMG WA MUST PROT3CT H3YBRAD!1!1! OMG LOL

cthomer5000 09-02-2004 02:05 PM
"We must protect. this. house."

JAG 09-02-2004 02:09 PM
They said they come in peace!

Coffee Warlord 09-02-2004 02:11 PM
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 09-02-2004 02:11 PM
I waited through that entire movie to see the alien, and it was her friggin' father!

Butter 09-02-2004 02:15 PM
Why would they even come here when 75% of this place is WATER?!?!?!?

rkmsuf 09-02-2004 02:16 PM
we should reflect back Achy Breaky Heart. No alien will ever come here.

Franklinnoble 09-02-2004 02:17 PM
I'll let you guys know if I pick up anything on my son's baby monitor when I get home.

Ben E Lou 09-02-2004 02:22 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JAG
They said they come in peace!
And the bastards will leave in pieces!!!

Coffee Warlord 09-02-2004 02:26 PM
I say we nuke the site from orbit.

rkmsuf 09-02-2004 02:32 PM

DanGarion 09-02-2004 02:35 PM
Quote:
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 09-02-2004 02:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rkmsuf

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

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

rkmsuf 09-02-2004 02:37 PM
Paging Fresh Price...paging Fresh Price.

Franklinnoble 09-02-2004 02:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord
I say we nuke the site from orbit.

Lemme go draw some crop circles for you to aim at first...

CHEMICAL SOLDIER 09-02-2004 02:45 PM
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 09-02-2004 03:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by 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?

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 09-02-2004 03:11 PM
"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 09-02-2004 03:21 PM
A schizophrenic telescope... what will they think of next?

Tigercat 09-02-2004 03:26 PM
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 09-02-2004 03:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Butter_of_69
Why would they even come here when 75% of this place is WATER?!?!?!?

Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

Glengoyne 09-02-2004 03:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklinnoble
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 09-02-2004 04:17 PM
I'd guess I had better start putting aluminum foil on my head to protect my brain from the alien signals:D

MikeVic 09-02-2004 04:20 PM
Charlie Sheen would also know what to do. Being the scientist that he is.

JAG 09-02-2004 04:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fonzie
Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

Well played.

Franklinnoble 09-02-2004 04:44 PM

judicial clerk 09-02-2004 05:42 PM
Quote:
I say we nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Dutch 09-02-2004 05:51 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fonzie
Good heavens. Did we learn nothing from V?

:)

Kodos 09-02-2004 06:16 PM


ACK-ACCCK-ACK!


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

MizzouRah 09-02-2004 06:28 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by 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!'

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 09-02-2004 06:36 PM
It was my toaster oven.

Sorry.

cthomer5000 09-02-2004 06:50 PM





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