Posted on 06/18/2022 6:22:10 AM PDT by Salman
This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious signal captured with China's "Sky Eye" telescope that might be a transmission from alien technology.
An article reporting the signal was posted on the website of China's state-backed Science and Technology Daily newspaper, but was later removed. So have astronomers finally found evidence of intelligent found life beyond Earth? And is it being hushed up?
We should be intrigued, but not too excited (yet). An interesting signal has to go through a lot of tests to check whether it truly carries the signature of extraterrestrial technology or is just the result of an unexpected source of terrestrial interference.
And as for the deletion: media releases are normally timed for simultaneous release with peer-reviewed results - which are not yet available - so it was likely just released a bit early by mistake.
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Technosignature searches have been ongoing since the 1960s, when the American astronomer Frank Drake pointed the 26-metre Tatel telescope toward two nearby Sun-like stars and scanned them for signs of technology.
Over the years, technosignature searches have become far more rigorous and sensitive. The systems in place at FAST are also able to process billions of times more of the radio spectrum than Drake's experiment.
Despite these advances, we haven't yet found any evidence of life beyond Earth.
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(Excerpt) Read more at spacedaily.com ...
But don't be surprised if one day it's reported that aliens landed on the White House lawn and announced we need to get rid of homophobia before we can join The Galactic Federation. /smirk
Why would Aliens want to talk to the Klingons unless they want to form an alliance ,LOL
(a transmission from alien technology)
“Send more Chuck Berry.”
An article reporting the signal was posted on the website of China’s state-backed Science and Technology Daily newspaper, but was later removed. So have astronomers finally found evidence of intelligent found life beyond Earth? And is it being hushed up?
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And that is pretty much how it began in Cixun Lui’s “Three Body Problem” trilogy ...
We’ll know what’s aliens when it’s their version of I Love Lucy that we are receiving.
[[An interesting signal has to go through a lot of tests to check whether it truly carries the signature of extraterrestrial technology or is just the result of an unexpected source of terrestrial interference. ]]
The thing is that really shmart aliens would disguise their radio communications by making it sound like it’s nothing but terrestrial interference. You just can’t trust aliens. They are sneaky
Probably a radio artifact of some secret Chinese weapon.
“evidence of intelligent found life beyond Earth”
If they are truly intelligent, they will stay far, far away...the wokism virus is contagious and Congress is trying take away our right to keep and bear the wokism vaccines.
Signal path loss is such that, to transmit an intelligible signal across inter-stellar distances, one would need to harness the energy of a star to drive the power amplifier needed to generate such signal.
The only distant signals the assorted radio telescopes around the world hear are those generated by assorted stars, pulsars, quasars, novas, etc.
Somebody opened the microwave oven to get his noodles before the timer beeped and got an alien message.
They heard radio signals that had reflected back at earth.
This is why the Chinese pulled the story ten minutes after it was posted.
Not a new idea. This is what they copied. It was built long ago.
Arecibo Radio Telescope
https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/project/arecibo-radio-telescope
Owner: National Science Foundation
Location: Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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