Seti@Home picking signals

Mictlantecuhtli · Sep 2, 2004

Well it wasn't my fault because I haven't been calculating Seti@Home since June, but something might be going on:

Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact?
Thu Sep 2, 2004 08:32 AM ET

LONDON (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.

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.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

Masque · Sep 2, 2004

Neat stuff. I'd like to see how this washes out. :grinthumb

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