Yellow Alert! A signal has been Detected
Project SETI, after 60 years of listening, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) organization acknowledged that in April and May 2019 radio signals were received by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope run by CSIRO in South Wales, Australia. As usual when listening on many frequencies a vast variety of radio signals are received during any observational period. Normally several months of work are required to isolate and analyze each separate signal to determine it's origin. The current endeavor is called Project Breakthrough Listen which collects and analyses signals from many participating radio observatories around the planet. In the case of this particular signal (known as BLC-1) the analysis of the signal did not occur until October 2019.The radio signal is a not modulated (non-informational) tone that was broadcast on a frequency of 982 Megahertz. The tone was broadcast for about a half hour. Data from other radio observatories and listening stations was then collected and the presence of the signal in their recordings also was confirmed.
Triangulation reveals the point of origin appears to be in the direction of Proximi Centauri, a nearby star 4.3 light years away Doppler radio analysis indicates the signal was blue shifting (i.e., moving). No known natural process can produce a unwavering radio signal of the nature received. .Because the same data was found on multiple radio listening points, some thousands of miles apart a local man made source near the Parkes Observatory was soon ruled out. Subsequent investigation has determined no satellite launched by Earth has ever been set up to transmit on a frequency of 892MhZ. Further, no known satellites launched from Earth are known to be in the position of the sky the signal was determined to be originating from.
Continued monitoring of the frequency has not resulted in any further signal being received.
Scientists are continuing to monitor that area of the sky and are also preparing papers speculating about what may have caused the signal and what it may mean.
Verification:
National Geographic
Scientific American
Private Analysis: So while CNN, NBC, RT and FOX worry about President Trump, President Elect Biden, and Covid19 masks, over 4 years ago, someone or something pressed a car horn for a half hour. I say car horn because that is fairly similar to what was done. When a human leans on a car horn for awhile, we are usually doing so in an attempt to signal something to someone. Three questions fill my mind. Was the signal meant for us? If not, then what did the signal signify and to who (or what)? What kind of response to the signal is to be anticipated?
Tik-Tok whatever the response will be, depending on how far away that listening point manned by the sending species is, it is possible the response is already underway.
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The curious thing to me is not that they don't find the universe teaming with easily detectable radio waves containing intelligence. If intelligent life is common, then I would think that would be too.
It's one more clue that advanced life is probably not common in the universe if it exists at all. Good evidence to support for the religious believers who think that human life on earth is the only intelligent life in the universe and that we are unique.
I remember him excited and agitated at having contact with someone behind the in curtain in the 70's.
I remember being sworn to infantile secrecy, as his contact risked his life simply to communicate with the outside world. I know my dad felt the honour of being trusted with such a communication and understood the significance of the rebellion: it was about the right to exist, to be present in the consciousness of another human being.
If aliens landed, my dad would be beeping Morse Code and waving semaphore like a good'un.
As far as our tech, in a hundred years (if we still exist) we will be so advanced we will have difficulty relation to our ancestors.
These thoughts help me to not worry about aliens coming to take our women or worse, to behave like us. I believe in ET more than Alien.
It would be great if real. I have waited for Seti my whole life and at this point, come to the conclusion that we are it...Seti waits in vain.
Vierkaesehoch - I kind of agree. I think only a very primitive species (like us) would bother to try to navigate those distances with space ships traveling the vast voids. For it to even begin to be practical the ship would have to be traveling at near light speed and the only way we can conceive of doing that would be with a ram ship. But although the time on the ship would minimal, the sun of the planet the ship occupants left behind them would have probably nova'd long before a destination was reached.
A ship traveling anything over 80% of light speed would have immense mass, sufficient mass to induce gravitational distortion of any light source behind it. We have for the past 10 years been searching the heavens for evidence of such a distortion. The work involves comparing the stars position today against old photographs, some going back to the 1920s, looking for changes in position. Although gravitational lensing has been identified, all of it has thus far been attributed to natural phenomena such as white dwarfs, or suspected black holes. Not one space ship has been detected.
We now know the moon of Jupiter we call Europa has both liquid and frozen water on it. The tidal effects of orbiting Jupiter generate enough internal heat that life under the 10 mile thick ice crust possibly exists
Anyway, regarding travel between the stars, we can speculate about a way to move from point A to point C without passing through point B. We so far lack that technology. That doesn't mean something else doesn't have it. There is a lot of discussion about that. So many issues. Even if you could create a stable worm hole, and make it large enough to use it to transport materials, where would you get the energy to keep it open? Plot the X, Y, Z, and T coordinates of the other side... Good luck with that because your T would not be a constant. Relativity messes up the math. The same theory that allows a worm hole also allows it to open on the other end at any time and even into another Universe. But for the worm hole to be usable you would have to know exactly which else when the other side was opened to. So if it exists, if there are other races using such things so they can take a summer vacation on a planet orbiting Rigel, then go to work on Monday on a planet orbiting Epsilon Auragae (for instance), then there math is HECK of a lot more advanced than our math.
Most US physical experimentation at real world wormholes was suspended back in 2002 after a super laser experiment in Sandia National Labs accidentally opened a 1 centimeter portal for about 3 seconds into what was/is now believed to be the heart of a star. Luckily the experiment took place inside an unoccupied concrete blockhouse. Because the experiment had the potential of igniting a Deuterium capsule also being subjected to hyper intense magnetic fields to produce fusion, temperature gauge probes capable of recording temperatures of 25,000 degrees Fahrenheit were present. They melted. So did the concrete blockhouse and most of the equipment. One scientist watching from afar stated, "we were aghast and didn't know how to stop it, I remember thinking we need to call someone but, who do you call, and how do you tell the Governor you just accidentally melted his state? Luckily it stopped on it's own when the everything near it vaporized and the energy input needed to keep it open vanished, because we had no way of stopping that."
Further experiments of that nature were suspended until such time as they could be done off planet, possibly on Mars or beyond with greater control as to where the other end of the portal would be.
Could you explain exactly how the "Wow Signal" was different? I mean they both indicate potential alien life, don't they?
Diamonds are not rare at all. They are kept in a state of artificial scarcity in order to keep the price up, though it has been changing in recent years.
But more to the point, those would be giant gaseous planets. Your plans for mining gases, or even the unlikely case where a solid core exists.
Step aside, and let a man who can see, saw, see? SEMIN-ary indeed. Chock full of Father's Ben Dover.
Knucklehead. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Not quite 60 years ago.
Our planet and the human race are coming to the end of its cycle, the evidence is all around us..
I don't know about mining, many other planets minerals could be easier to mine than here on earth;; but then again Ken they may as well mine our munted planet, rather than start destroying another planet..