Posted on 12/09/2018 9:53:48 AM PST by ETL
Following its discovery in October 2017, ‘Oumuamua was the subject of popular speculation about a possible non-natural origin.
Its highly elongated shape and the fact that no coma was observed strengthened this hypothesis for some, as these are uncharacteristic of asteroids and comets.
A recent paper by Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researchers Dr. Shmuel Bialy and Professor Abraham Loeb has also suggested the possibility that ‘Oumuamua is a deliberate construction.
The scientists argued that the slight, unexpected acceleration observed for this object could be caused by pressure from sunlight as ‘Oumumua swung around the Sun. Their hypothesis is that the object might be a light sail, either deliberately or accidentally sent our way. ..."
“We were looking for a signal that would prove that this object incorporates some technology – that it was of artificial origin,” said SETI Institute researcher Dr. Gerry Harp, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Acta Astronautica.
“We didn’t find any such emissions, despite a quite sensitive search. While our observations don’t conclusively rule out a non-natural origin for ‘Oumuamua, they constitute important data in assessing its likely makeup.”
Dr. Harp and co-authors observed ‘Oumuamua when it was about 170 million miles away, or slightly less than the diameter of Earth’s orbit.
The observations were made between November 23 and December 5, 2017, using the wide-band correlator of the ATA at frequencies between 1 and 10 GHz and with a frequency resolution of 100 kHz.
No signals were found at a level that would be produced by an omnidirectional transmitter on-board the object of a power of about 10 watts or more.
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3.14etc is certainly ONE way of expressing the irrational number we call "pi".
Is it the only way of expressing that number?
Please think about my question some more ... first contact with an alien species (if such even exist) will require that we not make unwarranted assumptions about them.
‘ONE way’
Granted...Base this, that or the other....Nevertheless, I assume the first ‘contact’ will be a ‘signal’ and pi, i whatever base, will be universal..and a sign of understanding...
YES!
That's my point ... if we're looking for "pi", or "e", or whatever other "universal number", we need to make sure we'll recognize it when we see it. If "ET" is an octopus, he(?) probably won't use decimal numbers.
eiπ + 1 = 0 would be a great way of saying "I'm intelligent and sufficiently advanced to know math".
This Irish hag would be a babe ...In Boston.
Where they call pretty woman a tourist.
She looks scared or embarrassed.
Very pretty, though.
Might be the equivalent of millennials:
"Like, math is HARD, dude!"
Yankees fan aren’t ya.
My understanding is that SETI listens, it doesn’t transmit. Any pinging would be an issue if SETI actually heard something.
People should be paid to watch baseball, not charged for it.
Both teams should be renamed thou, to reflect their fans.
Boston Red Bolsheviks vs. Yankee Bolsheviks.
When the media was screaming it may be a space ship, we’re sure it is a spaceship, all I could think was that Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama” series was FICTION.
Thanks ETL. One of a kind opportunity, they had to take a look.
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That it came from a primitive civilization which didn’t know the value of pi?
So backward they couldn't figure out how to set the clock on their DVD players. :)
So you’re saying they would use a different base, but still use Hindu numerals? Why would you think that? It’s absurd.
No. I'm saying that even if we manage to figure out their numerals, we shouldn't ass-u-me that they're using the same base as us. I picked ONE (of many) ways to illustrate that even regarding universal constants, "ET" may think enough differently from us to make understanding very difficult. Why would you think otherwise? It's absurd.
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