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UCLA wants your help searching for extraterrestrial life
KTLA ^

Posted on 02/14/2023 7:15:48 AM PST by BenLurkin

UCLA’s SETI group will launch a new project on Tuesday that allows the public to assist scientists in classifying radio signals that could be signs of extraterrestrial life, a news release said.

Participants will then be asked to select an image, provided by researchers, that closely resembles the radio signal they previously saw.

The goal is to match the signals to the “common classes of radio frequency interference,” a news release said.

Scientists with the group have observed about 42,000 stars and over 64 million radio signals and have technology that discards about 99.5% of the signals that are either “produced deliberately or as side effects of human technologies,” such as communication systems, satellites, aircraft and more.

The remaining detections can signify a life force outside of Earth.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; california; ktla; science; seti; ucla; ufo; ufos

1 posted on 02/14/2023 7:15:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Dumb question: Wouldn’t computers do a better job of this?


2 posted on 02/14/2023 7:16:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Check the BNBA All-Star Game.


3 posted on 02/14/2023 7:17:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: BenLurkin

There are tons of aliens around UCLA that arrived here from far away planets like Mexico and Columbia.


4 posted on 02/14/2023 7:18:28 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BenLurkin; All

THIS IS TOTALLY NOT A DISTRACTION. REMAIN GLUED TO YOUR TV SET AND STAY INDOORS.


5 posted on 02/14/2023 7:19:05 AM PST by Scarlett156 (My aluminum baseball bat keeps telling me it wants to talk to J3rry S3infeld. )
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To: BenLurkin
lt-gov-john-fetterman-running-for-u-s-senate

I found one

6 posted on 02/14/2023 7:21:52 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: BenLurkin

But first, UCLA wants your help searching for unicorns, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and zombies.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 7:28:16 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Tell It Right

Don’t forget the Middle East and Central America.


8 posted on 02/14/2023 7:28:32 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: BenLurkin

Just the other day I was hearing voices. Pay me.


9 posted on 02/14/2023 7:33:51 AM PST by Migraine
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To: BenLurkin
SETI? Are they still trying to direct attention away from where the evidence is pointing? No one is suggesting these things (to the extent they are even real) are coming from deep space.

We might as well look for bigfoot in a shoe store or a "Big and Tall Men's" shop.

10 posted on 02/14/2023 7:34:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Agreed—the entire SETI enterprise is a disinformation gig.

We all feel a lot safer knowing that aliens might be “out there” rather than permanently living right here.

It keeps everybody calm and supporting .gov.


11 posted on 02/14/2023 7:37:19 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin
Just look at your student body...I am sure you will find them there...


12 posted on 02/14/2023 7:44:30 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: PGR88

In just six replies, too !


13 posted on 02/14/2023 7:45:10 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: PGR88
Old Boston TV horror show was hosted by a character named FEEP.



14 posted on 02/14/2023 7:47:48 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: cgbg
As it used to be said, human beings find that maintaining an open mind is very uncomfortable. It actually hurts not to have an answer.

Hence the willingness of a lot of people to behave illogically and adopt positions and biases before the evidence has been collected and presented.

As Mr. Spock would say, "humans are most illogical." ;-)

15 posted on 02/14/2023 7:48:28 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Scarlett156

>> REMAIN GLUED TO YOUR TV SET AND STAY INDOORS.

OH NO. SHOULD I WEAR MY MASK??!? ONE, OR DOUBLE?

lol


16 posted on 02/14/2023 7:49:22 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Zombies? See above and visit Kensington, Ave in Philly.


17 posted on 02/14/2023 7:50:37 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: RoosterRedux

That is the key to influencing humans.

If you can affect their emotions then they will act.

After they act then they follow or create belief systems/narratives to justify their actions.


18 posted on 02/14/2023 7:50:38 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Yep.


19 posted on 02/14/2023 7:52:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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