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- Railer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+94SETI Editor's note: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week.
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -14/+58I for one, welcome our new space overlords.
- edster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35seems a little premature to digg a one sentence announcement page. Might as well just wait until tomorrow and digg the the actual news.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33They have apparently detected radio waves coming from near the center of the galaxy. They come every 77 mins and last for about 10 mins. The radio waves dont appear to be of any known types. This is probably just a new phenomenon and not aliens though.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Fark: "SETI has detected several signals emanating from the center of the galaxy. Offical announcement on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. PST"
- 10001110101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@NinjaBoy: source?
- Kardde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16This is from the e-mail I got from SETI last week:
"There are exciting times for SETI@home. We recently installed a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. Coupled with a new application, SETI@home Enhanced, we've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also testing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.
With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture. " - curunculus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Damn I hope they have found something. It will:
-Make us all realise we all just need to get along on this little blue speck.
-Make us turn our gaze upwards rather than continue the current narrow minded life we currently lead.
-(Hopefully) give us access to workable inter-stellar propulsion technology because our current and foreseable means of propulsion stictly limit us to out own solar system. - redcard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18What gag order? There's no way TO gag SETI, as it's not a singular organization but a worldwide organization. If they did indeed have locations and frequencies of a radio hit and were to the point of a press conference, then they've spent the last week or so confirming it from around the world. The cat is already out of the bag, and that's how SETI'S protocals are designed. They purposefully made it that way so that no government at all could stop the release of the information.
My bet? It's some new conference hall or division or fundraising drive or scanning process or gift of VLA time. - tommoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16@Mworthin
And what's wrong with 'realise', the face that it's not the US English spelling? - organique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson - elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Hopefully we can upload the virus via the alien's USB port.
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1542
That's your major SETI announcement. - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Looks like we still only have the Wow! Signal to go on. :-/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"Nothing new up anymore on the Seti website."
That may be because today is Monday,
(and because seti doesn’t sensationalize their announcements, like the news.) - sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Isn't this how that movie Contact started?
- Flatlineskillz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"We just saved 15% on our saucer insurence"
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11White House....? Meh don't make me laugh. The White House isn't powerful enough to put a gag order on SETI. You want to know the real truth? Church of Scientology is behind this: SETI picked up signals from a massive fleet of rocket powered DC-8's. Its all part of Lord Xenu's escape plan, and will usher in the great return of L. Ron Hubbard. The time is drawing nigh my good friends! Join Scientology now or suffer the wraith of Xenu.
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Damn, beat to the punch again. I've only been able to welcome one overlord (norway crabs), someone always gets to welcome them first.
- JustEvk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I'm going to be really sad if this annoucement isn't about hot green spacewomen.
- DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Actually, the signal found has space alien DRM all over it and SETI is having trouble getting the correct licenses. If you try and decode it yourself space alien RIAA lawyers will sue you. Thats the announcement.
- AlThor880, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
So it's time travel they've discovered. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It'll be a signal that simply says "Hello world !"
- carnytrash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Shouldn't that be "All your base are belong to us"?
You have no chance survive. Make your time. - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@abadincrotch:
I was relying on my memory of the email and it said I hadn't done any work units since some date and all I remember was that it was in the nineties. I was surprised too. I'm not trying to be all "grizzled veteran" here. That is what it said. - maklershed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10SETI's announcement:
Diet Dr. Pepper tastes a lot like regular Dr. Pepper. - slant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If they're anything like those damned Vulcans, you can kiss #3 goodbye.
- tafdc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9There ARE aliens.
Unfortunately, they're interned in Guantanamo and no one is permitted to talk to them... - fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10The muslims will complain.
- jgreene777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6allot - assign: give out or allot
a lot - many, as in: A lot of people are doing business online today. - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pfft, this is the aughties, the aliens all have blue-tooth now.
- caliform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What you say!!!
- aranyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That damn disclaimer shattered all my hopes and dreams of us interrupting a transmission from Omicron Persei 8.
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@sjbdallas
Umm I think you're the only person that would WANT to welcome the norway crab overlord. Something tells me he wouldn't take your presence too peacefully.
sjbdallas: I WELCOME you oh Norway Cr
Norway Crab Overlord: *big pinch*
sjbdallas: *gibb* - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I got an email to an old email address, within the last week or so, from seti@home asking me to "come back" to helping seti. I had been dormant since the 90's in the seti@home program. I also remember that they were touting some new array or signal harvesting methodology as a reason to come back to the program. Perhaps this is the announcement?
Sadly, I don't have the email anymore. - SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It will probably just turn out to be Jodi Fosters dad.
- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That may be the actual announcement, word for word.
Just don't release any white doves when they land... - iSkylla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BOINC is a far superior client to any DC client, UD etc...
However, with that being said, Folding@Home is a better cause. - redcard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'd be very curious to see SOMETHING on the Seti Institute's page regarding this.. they have nothing at all.
- 60days, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4curunculus: going by this subthread... nope.
- kuyakew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ok ok stop thinking everything is a goddamn conspiracy.
you need to go outside, breath some fresh air, meet some women, and live life. but dont forget to ask your mom for permission first though.
p.s.: im really an alien. you can believe that... if you want. - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Look for a message from Kardde lower down this thread. He got the same email I did but he kept his and copied the text from it.
- daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks to 10 years of screen savers working on on finding the pulsing signal.
- Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I was down with SETI@Home until the projects (like UD) started coming out to find a cure for cancer. I'd rather us find it then wait for some galactic overlord to come in and give it to us.
- domusvita, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Aim for their heads! They can't live without their heads!"
- douggmc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Someone set us up the bomb
- somnus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Vulcans didn't get "boo-ed" nearly enough for that one. When a headline about being denied the means for intergalactic propulsion shows up on digg, I will surely mark it as "lame" and post a scathing comment or two!
- flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3ALIENS USE ASCII!!!1!!
I_told_ you other planets were already connected to the Internet. Why do you think everything is so freakin' slow? - GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And boot up your first generation MacBook!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dr Steven Greer, MD states it, so it must be true..?
The man who lists Gaia as an actual singular life form, as opposed to an enclosed environmental self-organizing system, as is generally accepted by those who support the basic Giai hypothesis.
The man who also includes in his list of life-forms: spirits, angels, archangels, 'Ascended enlightened beings' (including Christ, etc)...
All interesting hypotheses, but all unproven ideas only. Beliefs. Not one fact among them.
Don't get me wrong, I believe there are other life-forms out there, just by the sheer numbers of stars/planets, the probability of them NOT existing is so small as to be practically non-existent, but I will not take the word of a instructor of meditation and trauma doctor as gospel to back up my belief...
Besides, anyone who instructs people to "look intently with the eye of oneness" deserves to be confined for all eternity in the pits of obscurity :/ -
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