Space signal studied for alien contact

[Crothian]

Darn it, and here I was all packed and ready to go!

Just don't drink the Kool Aid.......

 

[Hypersmurf]

Threads merged.

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Methinks this story was squelched a little too early, IYKWIMAITYD.

 

[myrdden]

Unfortunately, reports of this seem to have been premature or inaccurate.

...

So, it seems a case of "reports of the find were somewhat exaggerated".

Just like Roswell or Tuskana?

Sure that's just what the government wants you to think...

 

[Krieg]

6EQUJ5

 

[Ferret]

Before it was quashed I thought it might have been from a voyager style satalite. Maybe it got knock by asteroids or meteroites so thats why it is spining (fast and drifting the signal) and 'bliping'

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

To bad it wasn`t a real signal.
This made me think of something funny:
Maybe sometime we will figure out that all those pulsars actually ARE signals from aliens - they set the pulsars up because they knew no better way how to signal other races over great distances with a strong signal. Unfortunately, the didn`t account for the strange mixture of cleverness and stupidity of human beings, that made us believe pulsars like this would come up naturally...
(Why it would be easier for the aliens to create pulsars than simply visiting each star system is an excercise left to the reader)

 

[Zappo]

(Why it would be easier for the aliens to create pulsars than simply visiting each star system is an excercise left to the reader)

A strange mixture of cleverness and stupidity?

 

[Ferret]

I think the two go hand in hand.

 

[Turanil]

To bad it wasn`t a real signal.

Where is it told it wasn't a real signal? I believed they just didn't have enough observations (the signal is not continuous but random in time) to be able to tell anything valid by now. I thought we would learned more about it during the next week. Is my dream of aliens out there aleady dead? (Well, being 1000 light-years away, it wouldn't change much to it anyway).