Posted on 08/29/2016 7:20:51 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Does “a period of 40 days” mean that it orbits the star in only 40 days?
And wouldn’t that make it very close to the star?
And by “warm” Neptune, they mean boiling?
All true. But the signal only comes from the general direction of the warm Neptune planet, the only planet they know about in that system. The signal might actually be coming from another planet that’s in orbit around the star.
At this distance I doubt they could pinpoint the exact location of the signal from the solar system. It’s pretty good that they can pinpoint the system.
Having said that, the Russians sometimes get a little wild with their claims. There is a bit of “National Enquirer” in the Russian soul.
The signal was received on May 15, 2015, 18:01:15.65 (sidereal time),...
Guess it takes a long time to reach the east coast, US.[dst]
Remember what Hawking warned: Maybe we don’t want them to find us
The first commercial radio station, KDKA Pittsburgh, went on-air in 1921.
1921 was 95 years ago.
The star is 95 light years away.
Very interesting indeed!
A Type II civilization that’s only 95 ly away? Not good. They could be benign and the best thing that ever happened to us, or...
Thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks. Weird as hell, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!
It’s probably against Darwin’s Law on a galactic scale to crawl out of your protective covering and try to make friends with another species you know nothing about
Unless there is an FLT solution ... but why stop at twice the SoL?
At 95 light years away, even if they do find us, none of us will be alive by the time they get here, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
Maybe they figured out FTL.
But "it's a cookbook!" anyway.
-PJ
So we are still 95 years from hearing their reaction.
“Remember what Hawking warned: Maybe we don’t want them to find us”
In fact, maybe someday we can retrieve the spacecraft we’ve sent out of the Solar System, to reduce the chance of being found. Obviously, we cannot recall our radio signals, but why advertise.
Heck, I’d be in favor of having TV and radio signals broadcast to space that show us having a nuclear war with each other, killing each other off and poisoning the planet. Maybe “they” will stay away as a result.
We are as ants or cockroaches to any interstellar civilization. Bad sci-fi movies and books notwithstanding, the world’s combined military forces might last somewhere between 5 minutes or a day against such technology.
“It’s probably against Darwin’s Law on a galactic scale to crawl out of your protective covering and try to make friends with another species you know nothing about”
~11 GHz?
Yes but if they are responding to our signal it would need 190 years to get here from the date our signal left Earth.
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