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Aug 8, 2011 14:59:49 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 8, 2011 14:59:49 GMT -6
i have to laugh at this too.... ;D .... i think they should just pack it in....
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Jan 7, 2012 11:07:57 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jan 7, 2012 11:07:57 GMT -6
US Scientists Work to Decipher Possible 'Alien' SignalsFriday, 06 Jan 2012 (NewsCore) - Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley have taken the first step in attempting to decipher signals they believe could have been sent by aliens. New research from the university's Kepler team, a division of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, suggests that certain radio signals picked up by the project's telescope may have been transmitted by extraterrestrials. "These signals look similar to what we think might be produced from an extraterrestrial technology," researchers wrote on the project's website Friday. "They are narrow in frequency, much narrower than would be produced by any known astrophysical phenomena, and they drift in frequency with time, as we would expect because of the Doppler effect imposed by the relative motion of the transmitter and the receiving radio telescope." But scientists conducting the research were quick to point out that the signals could -- and likely do -- mean nothing. "It's not fair to say we've taken the very first step in finding extraterrestrials. I think it's fair to say that we made some progress in the analysis of the new data," said Andrew Siemion, a University of California-Berkeley Ph.D. candidate and lead researcher on the study. Other astronomers also stressed that the signals detected could very well be telecommunications signals sent by a familiar species -- us. "They're definitely picking up an intelligent species, but one that's likely well known to us -- ourselves," said Dr. Seth Shostak, a SETI senior astronomer. "This is very common. It would require quite a bit of follow-up to determine whether it's E.T. or just AT&T." Copyright 2012, the Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/us-scientists-work-to-decipher-possible-alien-signals-dpgonc-20110106-to_16861681
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Jan 7, 2012 15:03:58 GMT -6
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Jan 7, 2012 15:13:47 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 7, 2012 15:13:47 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/4mWEgG/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/01/image-of-the-day-1st-kepler-search-for-extraterestrial-intelligence-seti-signals-recieved.htmlJanuary 07, 2012 Image of the Day: 1st Kepler "Search for Extraterestrial Intelligence" (SETI) Signals Received[/color] The image above shows the radio signal detected by the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia while scanning the exoplanetary candidate KOI 817 discovered by the Kepler mission. This is the kind of signal SETI scientists would expect to find if an alien civilization is transmitting. "We've started searching our Kepler SETI observations and our analyses have generated some of our first candidate signals, which areundoubtedly examples of terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI)," scientists of the University of California, Berkeley announced on Friday.The detection of these artificial signal provides the UC Berkeley SETI team with a great opportunity to understand the kind of artificial signals they hope to eventually discover. "These signals look similar to what we think might be produced from an extraterrestrial technology. They are narrow in frequency, much narrower than would be produced by any known astrophysical phenomena, and they drift in frequency with time, as we would expect because of the Doppler effect imposed by the relative motion of the transmitter and the receiving radio telescope," according to the Berkeley team. For the world to be confirmed, it needs to complete four transits. As one of Kepler's prime mission objectives is to discover Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting within the habitable zone of sun-like stars, we have to wait 3.5 years until Kepler can confirm their existence. If this extraterrestrial life is going through the "radio transmitting" technology phase, then perhaps we might detect them on one of these exoplanets. Like the Age of Copernicus, the Kepler space telescope's survey of one small swath of the Milky Way is changing mankind's view of the Universe: dramatically increasing popular awareness of the likelihood that life exits beyond our Solar System. On December 5, NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets. Previous research hinted at the existence of near-Earth-size planets in habitable zones, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Two other small planets orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our sun recently were confirmed on the very edges of the habitable zone, with orbits more closely resembling those of Venus and Mars. CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/4mWEgG/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/01/image-of-the-day-1st-kepler-search-for-extraterestrial-intelligence-seti-signals-recieved.html
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Jan 7, 2012 16:19:01 GMT -6
Post by Steve on Jan 7, 2012 16:19:01 GMT -6
Perhaps at last? No 'wow' event, but....... Some more careful confirmation.
If true, then with Kepler 22B being 600 light years away, we then know the signals are 600 years old - what technology perhaps has developed there long since before Columbus discovered 'the new world' here?
I don't know why really, but this story holds more promise to me than most. I think evidence of ET life elsewhere will more likely be not a single dramatic event, but many little bits of evidence that sneaks up on us instead.
In a few years, then the next step would be to watch theoretical physics and it's new discoveries, confirmed with new instruments like CERN in Switzerland. If we know life exists, and has technology there, the only question then is are they capable of traveling here in some form of timely fashion.
If our theoretical physicists can show there is a way (or even several ways), then Ufology might through a back door gain some scientific credibility about a phenomenon here many have already experienced first hand.
We will just have to be quietly patient and not expect a surprise.
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Jan 7, 2012 21:58:06 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2012 21:58:06 GMT -6
The Wow! signal,august 1977,detected with the "big ear telescope". It was a 72 sec. signal at (notice) 1420.356 MHz. in the constellation of sagittarius. Some astronomers say it couldv'e been from E.T. origin while others speculate and suggest it could be an earth source reflected off space debris.
Another radio source SHGb02+14a is another candidate for SETI discovered in march of 2003 and observed 3 times at a frequency of(notice again) about 1420 MHz. Again, there is skepticism involving this candidate . Its speculated this may have been a reflection of a pulsar across a guissian belt , cosmic background noise , or even a "glitch" in the technology .
Now this one at 1440 MHz.
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Jan 7, 2012 22:15:52 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Jan 7, 2012 22:15:52 GMT -6
What's the point in these SETI people looking for radio signals if every time they find one they explain it away as something other than a radio signal? That's like a UFO investigator spending his life looking for UFOs and then saying they are all swamp gas and weather balloons.
I think this signal is interesting. I'm a little bit suspicious of it being "only" 600 years old though because I really can't imagine two civilizations on different planets developing their technology at the same level only 600 years apart while the planets themselves have existed for billions of years...unless the ETs possibly had something to do with it.
If they were using radio signals 600 years ago then it is possible that over the next several hundred years they might have developed the ability to travel through space. If we assume that the crash at Roswell allowed us to make technological advancements such as memory metal and fibre-optic cables, could a similar crash or incident a hundred or so years ago have given us the technological know how to create the radio?
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Jan 7, 2012 22:42:40 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jan 7, 2012 22:42:40 GMT -6
Sorry, Sky: First Kepler SETI Signals ID'd: No AliensBy David Murphy January 7, 2012 Here's the good news: You can turn off the loop of the song from Close Encounters of the Third Kind that you've been playing for the past hour and a half. The bad news has come to pass; We haven't found aliens yet. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project has started its first analyses of its scans of the 86 exoplanet candidates uncovered by the Kepler space telescope. And scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, announced Friday that SETI found its first batch of "hits" within the data. However, additional analyses have shown that the project's first candidate signals are just plain ol' terrestrial radio frequency interference. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. "Even though these signals are interference, detecting events with similar characteristics to what we expect from [extraterrestrial technology] is a good indication that the first steps of our detection algorithms are working properly," reads a blog post on SETI's site. In this case, the narrow, shifting frequency of the observed signal matched the characteristics that researchers were expecting to see in an artificial radio signal generated from space. However, these characteristics are also shared by the radio signals created from humanity's own satellites orbiting Earth. To test whether the radio signals were truly extraterrestrial, or just us, researchers moved the telescope they were using to scan the skies. After all, if a radio signal is being generated by a source up in space, then pointing the telescope elsewhere would eliminate its ability to detect the signal. In the case of SETI's discovered signals, however, they persisted: A sign that a human-launched satellite was generating a strong enough of a signal to be picked up by the telescope regardless of where it was pointing. In short, no aliens. The SETI project plans to continue to analyze the nearly 50 terabytes of data generated from its Kepler observations, and the group will update its blog with any additional results that pop up throughout the next many months. www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398546,00.asp
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Jan 7, 2012 22:58:02 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Jan 7, 2012 22:58:02 GMT -6
Typical government operation. When they fail they consider it a success because now they know how to recognize when they fail. I still say that if they want to find alien life they need to turn that sucker around and point it at the Earth!
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Jan 13, 2012 2:43:23 GMT -6
Post by AaronFarquhar on Jan 13, 2012 2:43:23 GMT -6
It makes me think, Does anyone actually believe what comes out of Seti? I mean im not sure whether this is a Government or Civilian Program but either way im more then 100% sure that the government has some type of interference or participation in the Seti Program. If we always talk about how the government keeps information about extraterrestrial life from us, Then why would they allow Seti to sit back and find things and disclose it to the world? I think the government is using SETI as there portal to release what information when they feel like it. But i will always keep my eyes on the SETI site and will always support the program i guess.
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Jan 28, 2012 10:21:02 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jan 28, 2012 10:21:02 GMT -6
Projects: SETI Radio Searches
The Quest for the "WOW!"
One Man's search for SETI's Most Promising Signal
Review of Robert H. Gray, The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial intelligence (Chicago: Palmer Square Press, 2011). A Radio SETI update by Amir Alexander January 27, 2012 The signal from the stars arrived at the Big Ear radio observatory in Ohio at 11:16 p.m. on the night of August 15, 1977. It came in loud and crisp, reaching at least 30 times the volume of the background noise and occupying a single 10 kilohertz-wide band on the observatory’s receiver. Its middle part lasted 38 seconds – the time it takes Big Ear’s radio band to traverse a single point in the sky – and it landed almost precisely at the frequency at which SETI scientists were hoping to find it: 1420 kilohertz, the emission frequency of hydrogen. It was exactly what SETI scientists had been waiting for – a seemingly artificial signal from the stars, one that could carry a message from alien beings light-years away. No one was there to receive the signal when it came in. The telescope’s beam silently scanned the skies, the receiver and spectrometer registered and analyzed the data, and a printer rattled in the darkness, recording it all in a continuous stream of numbers and letters. But when Big Ear volunteer Jerry Ehman looked over the printout a few days later, the sequence recording the signal leaped off the page at him: 6 E Q U J 5. Ehman circled the sequence and in the margins jotted a pure, barely articulate, expression of wonder: “Wow!” That was the first time the Wow! signal was detected. To this day, it is also the last. Strong and clear though it was, the Wow! signal disappeared almost as soon as it was found. It was received by one of Big Ear’s two beams which follow each other across the sky in close succession, but not by the other. This alone means that it was not a long continuous signal, but an intermittent one. Even an intermittent signal should be found again eventually, and Big Ear’s team returned to the location in the sky where the Wow! signal originated more than 50 times hoping to catch it. They found nothing. To most SETI scientists the Wow! is the single most intriguing result ever produced by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. But with no follow-up detections there is simply no way to know whether it was truly a signal from the stars. No one has spent more time and energy searching for the Wow! signal than Bob Gray, author of The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Gray is not a professional astronomer, the kind that works in an academic department and receives a steady paycheck from a university or an observatory. Gray makes his living as a data analyst, which means that in radio-astronomy he is technically an amateur – in the best sense of the word: one who does his work as a labor of love. But when it comes to the nuts and bolts of mounting a search for extraterrestrial intelligence, he is as professional as they come. Gray first heard of the Wow! signal a few years after its detection, and was fascinated by its potential implications. He contacted the Ohio team, visited Big Ear, and had long conversations with Jerry Ehman, as well as with Bob Dixon, who was the director of the SETI project, and John Kraus, the telescope’s designer. The discussions convinced him that the Wow! was not a hoax or a case of terrestrial interference, and most likely originated from the stars. But he also learned that apart from the Big Ear team’s own sporadic efforts no one else had actually tried to find it again. Gray was surprised. Given the momentous nature of what the Wow! signal could reveal, he expected astronomers to be clamoring for a chance to study it. But this was clearly not the case. The reason, he came to realize, is that observing time on the world’s great radio telescopes is a rare and much sought-after commodity. Once scientists secure a few hours or days on one of those great dishes, they understandably use every minute of it to pursue their own research projects. They simply have no time for romantic pursuits like a search for aliens. But as an outsider, Gray was not burdened with the usual pressures of academic life. He didn’t have to worry about publication counts, grant applications, or review committees, and was free to pursue what he saw as the most important question of all: Are we alone? Not willing to wait for the professionals to get around to it, he came to a decision: He would search for the Wow! signal on his own. In the first part of The Elusive Wow Gray tells the story of his 22-year quest for the Wow! signal. Read More: www.planetary.org/programs/projects/seti_radio_searches/20120127.html
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2012 12:01:27 GMT -6
There is something mathematically too coincidental about this frequency. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. What makes the Wow! signal so significant is get this,,,the hydrogen line in the electromagnetic spectrum is exactly 1420.40575177 MHz. 2 different values for the Wow ! signal (1420.356MHz and 1420.4556 MHz ) are the same distance apart to the hydrogen line. The 1st is 0.0498 MHz less than and the 2nd is 0.0498 MHz more than the hydrogen line !! Just a coincidence ? I personally dont think so.
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Apr 30, 2012 20:17:34 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Apr 30, 2012 20:17:34 GMT -6
Ran across this blog post. Thought it was interesting that Seth is not quite as sarcastic and pompous in this dissertation as he has been in the past. Searching For UFOs, Instead We Find OurselvesSubmitted by Henry on April 30, 2012 Seth Shostak is a respected researcher and commentator on the subject of the search for alien life. He has written a very well thought out article on the hunt for UFOs, and about the people who report them, for the Huffington Post. I thought I would share it here. Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there’s no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously. Plenty of people think they have convincing evidence for other-worldly visitors, and they want me to know. Allow me to first note that this is a phenomenon worthy of attention. If aliens are really hanging out in our ‘hood, it’s hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they’re here? Note that few, if any, of these emails are penned by hoaxers. The correspondents are sincere, and many simply wish to help us in our search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Others are ticked off, usually at me. It’s a fire hose of correspondence, but stepping back a bit from the massive electronic corpus, it strikes me that virtually all of it falls into one of four categories. For the curious and interested, I list these subject areas below, together with a modestly elaborated description of each. Sightings. The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence. Unfortunately, it’s hard to say much about these stories. After all, I wasn’t there. I much prefer the photos and videos that are sometimes offered. The UFOs generally appear small, but contrary to frequent assumption, this doesn’t prove that they’re at high altitude moving at high speed (consider bugs and birds). Many of the images are artifacts of photography. One gentleman sent me dozens of nighttime photos of city streets, featuring big, blobby and bright UFOs. But these luminous aliens only showed themselves when there was a street lamp in the shot. I suggested that they were internal reflections in the camera lens, and not alien ships behaving like moths. He disagreed… Suggestions. Some people just want to feed the suggestion box. They’ve got information on how we can do our job better, such as telling us to swing our antennas in the direction of a particular star system where they’re sure aliens are awaiting discovery. A favorite suggested target is the star system Zeta Reticuli, a locale made popular by the famous UFO case of Betty and Barney Hill. As it happens, we have examined Zeta Reticuli with our antennas — not because of Betty and Barney, but because it’s close (39 light-years). We didn’t hear any Reticulans. Other mails ask why we still look for radio signals when advanced aliens would surely communicate via hyperdimensional physics. Whatever that is. Others urge us to tune our receivers to the “frequency of DNA.” Whatever that is. Strange stuff. Why are we wasting time hunting for signals, say some correspondents, when extraterrestrials have left calling cards all over the planet? Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? The Washington Monument — also pointy — is not considered an alien artifact as it was built by Americans who, of course, can manage this sort of project without extraterrestrial contractors. Another story I get several times a month is that Homo sapiens is a deliberate creation of other-worldly beings. We’re E.T.’s science fair project. The fact that our DNA is 98 percent the same as that of chimps implies that either the aliens must have also created our simian pals, or they were content to make us only very slightly better than what Nature had already served up. A final category of strange stuff includes the correspondents who repeatedly claim that they are aliens. I wonder if they enjoy equal protection under the law. Slams. While the above correspondence is interesting, it’s not particularly unnerving. That cannot be said for those folks who like to excoriate me for being skeptical about alien visitation. They generally argue that the only reasons that few scientists give much credence to the visitation idea are these: (1) The government is keeping all the good evidence under wraps, and (2) Scientists are knee-jerk debunkers, unwilling to take any of this stuff seriously. It’s hard to believe that the aliens have cleverly arranged things so that only governments can find convincing evidence of their presence. And, of course, if you accept that premise, it follows that all the UFO reports by ordinary citizens are inadequate to establish the truth of aliens-on-Earth (a bummer of a message for organizations like MUFON). As for the idea that scientists are either dumb or deliberately mum — well hey, that’s a slur both silly and personally wounding. Imagine if Bigfoot enthusiasts blamed their failure to convince zoologists of the existence of these elusive beasts on (1) the state of Washington, which was deliberately covering up the really good evidence, and (2) forest rangers, who were derelict in their duty because they don’t relentlessly investigate these hirsute hominids. Would such arguments convince you that Bigfoot was afoot? The fact is, if you’re certain that our planet is hosting alien visitors, the way to gain acceptance for your point of view is to prove it, not insist that the problem lies with third parties. The blame game is a cop-out. www.ghosttheory.com/2012/04/30/searching-for-ufos-instead-we-find-ourselves
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May 1, 2012 17:39:09 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on May 1, 2012 17:39:09 GMT -6
He still doesn't listen though. I've told them a thousand times if they want to hear aliens they need to turn that antenna around and point it at the earth but do they do it? Nooooooooo.
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May 3, 2012 0:13:29 GMT -6
Post by ufo4peace on May 3, 2012 0:13:29 GMT -6
The thing about SETI is if some UFOs are ET and I believe they are then it makes their organization irrlevant.
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May 17, 2012 12:24:53 GMT -6
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May 17, 2012 19:35:25 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on May 17, 2012 19:35:25 GMT -6
Stephen Hawking has been warning about that very thing for some time now. It's kind of ironic that some of the same scientists who say aliens don't exist are now warning that we shouldn't send out signals because they might attract aliens. I don't really think it makes any difference. We send signals out every day whether we mean to or not. All of the radio and television signals that are bouncing around the planet are also being beamed off into space. There might be aliens out there somewhere right now watching reruns of I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island as they speed their attack ships in our direction getting ready to destroy us all.
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May 17, 2012 20:37:51 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 20:37:51 GMT -6
I hope they're watching Gilligan reruns and not Hellraiser or Jason ;D
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May 17, 2012 20:57:01 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 20:57:01 GMT -6
I like Shostak's two questions ;D
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May 22, 2012 10:01:16 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on May 22, 2012 10:01:16 GMT -6
Alien hunter retires after 35-year quest for E.T. Published May 22, 2012 Jodie Foster may have seen proof of alien lands in the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film “Contact,” but the real life astronomer the filmmakers based their sci-fi odyssey on didn’t find so much as a tentacle. And after 35 years of fruitless hunting, director of SETI Research Jill Tarter is giving up the quest -- but she’s not giving up hope. After all, life abounds in the strangest places, she told FoxNews.com. “We find it in boiling battery acid, at the bottom of the ocean where there’s huge pressure, there are microbes that make their living where the sun doesn’t shine -- and they’re quite happy there,” Tarter said. And life out there would tell us a lot about back here. Besides, the quest hasn’t been entirely in vain: In fact, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has made tremendous leaps in the past few years, notably with the advent of the Kepler Space Telescope, which in recent months discovered two dozen alien planets and thousands of potential planets in the nearby skies. "Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the whole sky," Doug Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. "Now, in just two years staring at a patch of sky not much bigger than your fist, Kepler has discovered more than 60 planets and more than 2,300 planet candidates." Each of those are great places to look for the telltale signs of little green men: biosignatures. “Do a chemical assay, look and see whether that [planet’s] chemical signature is out of equilibrium -- as it is here on Earth,” she told FoxNews.com. Thanks to the life teeming on our spinning blue orb, the planet’s ordinary biorhythm is slightly off-kilter. “We have such a strong biological force function on the surface of the planet -- from microbes and biological life -- that it throws off the planet’s atmosphere,” she said. Such an effect is something scientists should be able to perceive, even on a planet light-years away, although doing so will take a whole lot of technology that we may not even have yet. “The universe looks more and more biofriendly. It’s looking more habitable. It’s exciting,” she told FoxNews.com. And so the quest will go on -- without Tarter. After 35 years of searching the skies for signs of intelligence beyond Earth, Tarter is turning over the research reins to new leadership at the non-profit SETI Institute and assuming a new role: chief fundraiser. Chief among the fundraising efforts is the upcoming SETIcon II, held June 22-24 at the Santa Clara Hyatt in California. At the last such event, held August 13 - 15, 2010, more than 1,000 enthusiasts met astronauts and scientists to discuss the quest for life. Hopefully the event will raise money for the SETI Institute, which Tarter said requires $2 million per year to run -- a pittance for a program that could have such potential ramifications. “It will impact everyone on the planet, so the whole planet should be supporting this.” “Columbus didn’t wait for a 747 -- he got across the Atlantic in a leaky wooden boat. The tools we have may be adequate to the job,” she said. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/22/alien-hunter-retires-after-35-year-quest-for-et/?test=latestnews#ixzz1vc6awlBl
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May 23, 2012 11:01:29 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on May 23, 2012 11:01:29 GMT -6
I keep telling those SETI people that if they want to detect ET life they need to turn that thing around and point it at the earth. Maybe the new people in charge will listen to me.
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Mar 31, 2013 8:28:20 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Mar 31, 2013 8:28:20 GMT -6
Android Phones Used By Scientists In Exploring The UniverseGiancarlo Perlas | March 30, 2013 Users of Android phones can now help scientists learn about whether or not extraterrestrial life exists by donating unused processing power from their tablets or mobile phones to the Einstein@Home project. To do this, Android users would have to download a software called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing or the BOINC platform. This software will let you contribute unused processing power from your Android devices that will help analyze data for Einstein@Home, a project which aims to find pulsars, black holes and gravitational waves. Your contribution may also feed other researches on IBM’s World Community Grid. This platform has been around since the late 1990s when it ran on more than one million personal computers. The premise, of course, is to pool as much unused processing power as possible so that researchers can use such power to find extraterrestrial life. It initially crunched data for SETI@home project, an open source software platform. The platform was started by David Anderson, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. One of his grad students in 1995 asked him about the possibility of using the extra juice from the processing power of personal computers around the world in tracking extraterrestrial. And although Anderson wasn’t really interested about extraterrestrial, he began the project to work on pooling the resources of computers around the world and powering a research. The platform’s popularity, however, eventually died down. But with the existence of over half a billion Android phones, Anderson has suddenly become optimistic again to take the project forward. Understandably, this is a lot to ask from Android users. However, the platform won’t take too much of your phone’s battery life since i t will only run when your phone is charging. Also, your mobile plan won’t suddenly balloon since the data-crunching will happen only when you are connected to a wireless network. And to protect your phone, the software’s developer made the code smart enough to detect when your phone’s temperature is too high. It will automatically shut down. Also, the interface has a lot more graphics than the previous version. It may be a little weird that Anderson devised this new BOINC platform to juice processing power from Android phones, but he figured out how such devices can contribute to the project since they now have powerful CPUs and processors. When it comes to iPhones and iPads though, Anderson said it wouldn’t be possible since Apple does not allow the creation of an app within its app store. Also, the BOINC software would need to tap into the processor—something that Apple will surely not allow. And since Apple is highly restrictive, Anderson said it would impede in the whole point of BOINC’s open platform. In a report by Wired, Anderson said he believes the contribution of Android phones alone can help the project get back to its feet. He also has faith that the social tools now being used by smartphones and tablets users will drive the distribution of the software to new heights. And if you ever feel weirded out by this project, maybe knowing that you are helping scientists in their research will put your mind at ease. Read more at thedroidguy.com/2013/03/android-phones-used-by-scientist-in-exploring-the-universe/#hIlVlHCpokadeqAJ.99
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Sept 1, 2013 13:00:06 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 1, 2013 13:00:06 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/if-et-calls-0901September 01, 2013 IF ET CALLS...By Nick Pope In my previous column I examined the difficult relationship between ufology and SETI. In particular, I highlighted the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope, an instrument so powerful, that when fully operational, in 2024, it will be able to detect an airport radar at a distance of 50 light years. I speculated that this might be the moment at which the human race learns of the existence of other civilizations. My previous column proved controversial and many people expressed surprise that I was giving publicity to SETI’s search for life ‘out there’, when – as they believe – it’s already ‘down here’. I don’t know about that, but given the fact that if there’s a detectable civilization anywhere in our small part of the galaxy, the SKA may be the tool that finds it, it seems prudent that ufologists give some thought to this. Because make no mistake about it, this would be a scientific proof that would tick all the boxes in terms of universal, undeniable verifiability. All too often, it seems to me, the UFO community gets so hung up on trying to prove the reality of extraterrestrial visitation (and the associated government cover-up that they believe keeps this knowledge from the public), that it fails to ask the killer question: what next? What would happen if we really did get absolute and undeniable proof of the existence not just of alien life, but of other civilizations? There are, of course, a few hoannable exceptions. While I disagree with many of their points, Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel attempted to ask “what next?” in their book “AD. After Disclosure”. Steve Bassett has discussed some of what he sees as the implications in various lectures and interviews. My own view is that a lot of this gets bogged down in discussions about the political and legal consequences of there having been a UFO cover-up, e.g. sanctions or amnesties for those who were part of the conspiracy, depending upon the reasons for the cover-up. But what if there is no cover-up? What if 2024 genuinely is the first time that anyone in government and the scientific community learns that we’re not alone? What then? Let’s take this as our start point: in 2024 the SKA detects a signal. What next? SETI has a document on this, revised on September 30, 2010, entitled “Declaration of Principles Concerning the Conduct of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”. Essentially, it states that if a candidate signal is detected, there should be proper verification, followed by a public announcement. It concludes by stating “In the case of the confirmed detection of a signal, signatories to this declaration will not respond without first seeking guidance and consent of a broadly representative international body, such as the United Nations” There are three problems with this. Firstly, it’s not a legally binding document. Secondly, it largely omits the role of governments. Thirdly, it’s a classic example of what the military would call a plan that wouldn’t survive contact with the enemy – what I mean by this last point is that word would almost certainly leak out within hours, if not minutes, whatever the aspirations.
CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/if-et-calls-0901
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Sept 4, 2013 10:59:49 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 10:59:49 GMT -6
Well lately no matter who I call I'm put on hold for at least a half hour..I'm guessing ET will get bored and hang up
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Jan 31, 2014 14:59:41 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 31, 2014 14:59:41 GMT -6
www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/02/28/5-reasons-e-t-would-already-know-were-here/ 5 Reasons E.T. Would Already Know We're Hereby Bruce Dorminey, Contributor 2/28/2013 Enrico Fermi’s much ballyhooed paradox — the aging saw that “If E.T. is out there and technologically-advanced, why aren’t they here?” — now seems a tad simplistic. It’s a conundrum that has plagued SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers since their first radio searches began more than a half century ago. But the lack of verifiable SETI signals should not be held up as evidence that they simply aren’t there. In this age of planetary plenty, when by some estimates there may be as many as 100 billion planets in our galaxy alone, it’s still premature to think that we have cornered the Milky Way’s market on intelligence. That’s not to say that anyone need keep one eye open for bug-eyed aliens skulking about the foot of their bed. But if technologically-advanced extraterrestrials are out there, there is ample reason to believe that they will have long known we’re here. Here are five reasons why: www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/02/28/5-reasons-e-t-would-already-know-were-here/
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Feb 25, 2014 13:01:19 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 25, 2014 13:01:19 GMT -6
www.veteranstoday.com/2014/02/23/why-seti-system-dont-pick-up-ufos/ Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 Why SETI system don’t pick up UFO’sPosted by Gordon Duff world_newsWORLD NEWS TOMORROW-Arizona USA - New intelligence research information surges that our global communications systems are far behind of that possibly used by other species on other planets who is capable of visiting planet earth. Most people are aware of our wave communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. The components of a communications system serve a common purpose, are technically compatible, use common procedures, respond to controls, and operate in union, or at least so it was thought, but now science might proof this all wrong. What if they the grays, our visitors of space, uses a telecommunications method of communication that is hard wired to the brain. Can we still read the massaging or hear it? If correct, it will mean that mankind’s has still got a long way to go to develop symbiotic wave communications systems. Yup, you heard right, Symbiotic wave communications systems, a giant step into the future of telecommunications systems. As embarrassing as it might be, governments cant admit to knowing anything, simply because they don’t have the technology yet, or do they? Well according to a public youtube video by David Adair, a witness testimony the US government had a Symbiotic engine in their possession since 1971. Apparently, it wasn’t till 1976 that they figured out how it works. Now assume this is true, how long will it be before symbiotic wave communications systems will be in use on our blue line planet? If our Alien brothers and sisters from outer space uses symbiotic wave communications technology, then it would answer why the billion dollar program of SETI, who are responsible for searching life in outer space has not yet had any call from ET. Maybe ET already knows our communication systems are out-dated and why would ET fax home to tell us anyway ? If correct, then we could ask if we are heading for a Symbiotic Computer as well ? The fact that the NSA are looking at the quantum computer tells us that we are a far way of as mankind to have the age of the Symbiotic Computer. When WNT news spoke to Global Security Threat analyst Baron Baretzky for his opinion. He said that we are already living in an age where symbiotic weapons and computers are being created to integrated with human capability. ” The risks we face is that somebody or something has already done it and can use it against us.” If his words are true, then we can predict a very different future that most believe. What is important is the fact that we are way out of date according to some experts and if we are visited by ET, we are simply not in position to fight any battles and most likely governments will want to acquire such technology as secretly and discreetly as possible. They would be able to come and go as they please and few would even notice it due to the lack of our capability to developed symbiotic wave communications technology. Is this perhaps the answer to the problem of phoning ET ? Either way, many has reported seeing ET but few has had a phone conversation with IT. Exclusive for World News Tomorrow by James Lee IFJ Member. www.veteranstoday.com/2014/02/23/why-seti-system-dont-pick-up-ufos/
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Feb 25, 2014 14:23:12 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 25, 2014 14:23:12 GMT -6
www.davidreneke.com/new-way-to-hear-ets-signals/ New Way To Hear ET’s Signals Dave Reneke Feb 24th, 2014 Despite there being no ‘intelligent’ signal detected coming from Gliese 581, the new technique could prove useful to future SETI projects (Source: M Kornmesser/ESO) The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has a powerful new tool at its disposal, Australian scientists report. Australian astronomers picked out one star and really listened to it for signs. What they’re looking for are the signs of ET making local phone calls… or at least making some noise.For the first time, a group led by astronomer Professor Steven Tingay from Curtin University have used a sensitive type of radio telescope, known as a very long baseline interferometer, to listen out for radio signals coming from a distant planet. For eight hours in June 2007, they trained one of these interferometers – the Australian Long Baseline Array – toward a nearby star known as Gliese 581, which is thought to have two potentially life-sustaining planets orbiting it. Although the foray drew a blank, the researchers say their approach holds promise for the future. Their report, posted on the pre-press website arXiv.org, is due to be published in The Astronomical Journal. “We’ve proved the concept,” says Tingay. “Although it’s a null result, it’s good to be able to show that the technique works.” Very long baseline interferometers are well suited to the search for radio signals from space because they are made up of multiple telescopes separated by large distances. The three Australian Long Baseline Array dishes used in this instance were spread around NSW. “One of the problems with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that if a telescope picks up a narrow band radio signal, ultimately you don’t know if it’s coming from a distant planet, or the TV antenna 20 kilometres away,” explains Tingay. The benefit of interferometers such as the ALBA – or the upcoming Square Kilometre Array – is that any human interference likely would be confined to one or two of those antennas, he says. “Even if you did see it on more, you could very quickly eliminate it as coming from the part of the sky where the planet is.” Tingay and colleagues, including PhD student Hayden Rampadarath, focused their search on a small part of the radio frequency spectrum – from 1230 to 1544 MHz. “That’s the region of spectrum that contains the hydrogen line emission, which people think is a reasonable place to look,” says Tingay. “But it’s a tiny, tiny sliver of the radio frequency.” The astronomers detected 222 potential alien signals during their observation. However they were able to rule out all of these using automated analysis techniques. Still, the negative finding does not definitively show there are no alien civilisations orbiting Gliese 581, notes Tingay. What it does mean is that during the period they were observing, there were no powerful radio signals directed from that planetary system toward Earth. “We would have seen a signal brighter than 7 megawatts per hertz, but that is a pretty strong signal,” he says. “Who knows, maybe it was a public holiday on that planet or something and we missed out.” The findings also show that the Square Kilometre Array would be a good addition to the hunt for alien intelligence, he notes. “The real value of this is in showing the technique works and you could feasibly run this kind of program on the SKA for almost zero cost.” Source; ABC Science www.davidreneke.com/new-way-to-hear-ets-signals/
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Feb 28, 2014 12:49:16 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 12:49:16 GMT -6
It wont surprise me if life on other planets is found within the next few years. I have this feeling that the James Webb telescope will find evidence of that, or perhaps updated technological advances using other techniques.
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Feb 28, 2014 14:47:57 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 14:47:57 GMT -6
Problem may be that we already have alerted many to our presence. So far..aside from a bit of poking, prodding, kidnapping and fluid gathering..we don't know of any harm done..but..stick our noses out and sniff the wrong guys..well..it's still kind of a pretty place to live and I've grown used to it.
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