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An Anomalous SETI Signal
NASA ^ | Feb. 6, 2011 | SETI/NASA

Posted on 02/09/2011 11:52:43 AM PST by The Comedian

Explanation: No one knows for sure what caused this signal.

There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here on Earth by a radio telescope involved in a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

A search for these signals is ongoing by several groups including volunteer members of the SETI League.

Time labels the vertical axis of the above plot, and frequency marks the horizontal axis.

Although this strong signal was never positively identified, astronomers have identified in it many attributes characteristic of a more mundane and ultimately terrestrial origin.

In this case, a leading possibility is that the signal originates from an unusual modulation between a GPS satellite and an unidentified Earth-based source.

Many unusual signals from space remain unidentified.

No signal has yet been strong enough or run long enough to be unambiguously identified as originating from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

(image at link)


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: nasa; seti; space; xplanets
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It's probably not. But it isn't definitely not.
1 posted on 02/09/2011 11:52:52 AM PST by The Comedian
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To: The Comedian

Could be the Mother Ship.


2 posted on 02/09/2011 11:54:08 AM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: SunkenCiv; CJ Wolf; houeto; Quix; null and void; B4Ranch; Whenifhow; Silentgypsy; FromLori; ...
Disclosure ping.

"Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping.


Ping list dealing with odd space phenomena and solar events.

FReepmail me if you want on or off

The Comedian's "Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping list...


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

3 posted on 02/09/2011 11:55:29 AM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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“It’s full of stars.”


4 posted on 02/09/2011 11:55:47 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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Isn’t that what flying saucers sounded like in bad movies from the 1950’s?


5 posted on 02/09/2011 11:55:55 AM PST by MeganC (Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: The Comedian

They want to know if the enchiladas taste like they do at home.


6 posted on 02/09/2011 11:56:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (BO + MB = BOMB -- The One will make sure they get one.)
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To: The Comedian

Have they finally picked up our transmissions of The Honeymooners?


7 posted on 02/09/2011 11:56:32 AM PST by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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I have a feeling the signals from that distance would be weaker rather than stronger than terrestial ones.


8 posted on 02/09/2011 11:57:51 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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i hope they eat the Kardashians.


9 posted on 02/09/2011 11:58:17 AM PST by exist
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“SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY!”


10 posted on 02/09/2011 11:58:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: The Comedian

“Eat At Gorp’s”


11 posted on 02/09/2011 11:59:28 AM PST by skeeter
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I have a feeling if a mile-wide flying saucer hovered over L.A. for a few hours in broad daylight that SETI would be reporting nothing from its “listening”.


12 posted on 02/09/2011 11:59:38 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: The Comedian

13 posted on 02/09/2011 12:00:44 PM PST by cajuncow
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Isn’t that what flying saucers sounded like in bad movies from the 1950’s?

My first thought.

14 posted on 02/09/2011 12:02:03 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: The Comedian

Wait until “The Chevy Chase show” hits them. We will be summarily exterminated.


15 posted on 02/09/2011 12:02:11 PM PST by Spruce
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If there are alien civilizations, my guess would be they’d have faster than light comms to talk across interstellar distances on some kind of real time basis. Meaning not RF based so we’d have no way to capture them till we have that tech as well. They could be all around us and we’d never know it.


16 posted on 02/09/2011 12:04:52 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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Isn’t that what flying saucers sounded like in bad movies from the 1950’s?

It also sounds exactly like the background noise you hear at night on Aviation HF radios while flying across the North Atlantic...

17 posted on 02/09/2011 12:13:10 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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L

18 posted on 02/09/2011 12:13:18 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: The Comedian
They are recalling their defective probe unit.


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

19 posted on 02/09/2011 12:14:51 PM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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NASA is a joke with Islam, global warming, CO2 and claiming their is water on Mars or the Moon. Total effing joke.

No one takes them seriously anymore. NASA was good when the Germans ran it.


20 posted on 02/09/2011 12:15:35 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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