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, its the group that spotted the irregular dimming of Tabbys 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 didnt 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 ...
Alien Listening Project Picks Up 11 Unusual Signals
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There have been headlines like this for decades.
I still think we’re the only technological civilization, but I don’t blame people for looking.
I wonder if it is radio transmission, such as ‘Vote Mr Spock for Vulcan Selectmen’. :-) Or maybe Rush Spockbaugh the host of Vulcan’s conservative radio station...
Soon cats will rule the universe!
I hadn’t heard of Tabby until your post. I just read this:
Whatever is blocking the starlight from Tabby’s star is “not surrounding the whole star it must be along our line of sight,” Wright said. “So you can do that if it’s in a disk of some kind. And that hopefully will help constrain what the heck is going on.”
“Wright has a hunch that the answer lies far away from Tabby’s star, out in the dark depths of space.”
The comet theory, blocking the light near the star wouldn’t make sense, but knowing that the Bible says in Revelation 12 that the sun becomes black, the moon red as blood and the stars of the sky fall to the earth like figs from a tree.
So what if this group of rocks are HEADING TOWARDS US? wouldn’t that account for the loss of light from the star growing each year? I just always wondered why no one has seen them. :) Enjoy!
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Heh, dog bites illegal man? Too bad aliens didn’t contact us when Domino’s still had it’s “delivered in 20 minutes or it’s free” deal.
No...it is:’Hi I’m a Klingon Prince and I’ll make you rich, send me your bank account number, social security number and your full name...’ :-)
Nah, I can get that functionality on my smartphone. Srsly, they have magnetic field detectors apps.
It’s the old standard for whether something is newsworthy or not. Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is news.
From a galaxy far, far away?
(Well, it is Star Wars Day, after all.)
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All these years and that’s all I had to know lol.
Let the immortal internet record show, I was the first to welcome our new, stern but fair alien Overlords.
Great find. Yes, Jason Wright is the guy to follow on this. He knows it can’t be comet fragments. The missing IR radiation is the key here. Where is it?
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