Posted on 05/04/2017 12:23:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Breakthrough Listen project is managed by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, SETI Research Center and uses the Parkes Telescope in Australia, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Automated Planet Finder optical telescope at Lick Observatory in California to collect radio signal data – a LOT of radio signal data. In just two years, the project has accumulated eight petabytes (8 million gigabytes) of data from observations of just 692 stars that have been designated as possible candidates for alien life – a total of 1709 stars have been selected for the project. Each is observed for three five-minute periods and the stars fall into one of two categories: a) within 16 light years from our Sun or b) up to 163 light years away.
If the Breakthrough Listen project sounds familiar, it’s the group that spotted the irregular dimming of Tabby’s Star. It has since been determined that the dimming is not due to a Dyson sphere or other alien activity but is caused by comet fragments interfering with signals.
What about the 11 other signals that didn’t fit the usual pattern? The Green Bank Telescope looks for signals in frequencies ranging from 1.1 to 1.9 GHz where artificial ones can be distinguished from natural sources like pulsars, quasars, radio galaxies and Cosmic Microwave Background – the electromagnetic radiation left over from the time of recombination in Big Bang cosmology (and a great name for a band). The eleven events rose above the threshold for significance and ranged from to 25.4 to 3376.9 SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio).
(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...
I suspect any signal coming from outside our solar system would be “unusual”.
Polar bear farts from the planet Zenos that is being destroyed by insectoid made global warming....
OBAMA.IS.A.KENYAN.MUSLIM.WE.HAVE.HIS.REAL.BIRTH.CERTIFICATE.
Actually if you read the article it’s quite the norm.
“Send more cat videos. We love dem.”
Is this the ‘Allen-Parsons Project’ that Dr. Evil spoke about?
The Truth is Out There.
Oh. THAT kind of Alien. Not ‘run 4 the border!’ type Aliens.
$17.95 seems a little steep but.....worth every penny I’m sure.
Strangely all 11 of them seemed to be saying..... Send more money.
What does this have to do with the Klingons around Uranus?
Sounds Sirius...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0ZISBYidI
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
“Actually if you read the article it’s quite the norm.”
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I see - it’s the usual “dog bites man” story. Hard for me to get too excited about something normal happening. I mean, you can only be told “water is wet” so many times before the novelty wears off.
Jodie Foster please pick up he white courtesy phone.
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