Posted on 09/02/2004 7:58:28 AM PDT by freedom44
LONDON (Reuters) - An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilisation, New Scientist magazine has reported.
The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.
New Scientist said on Thursday the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself.
But the mystery beam has excited astronomers across the world.
"If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath told the magazine.
It was broadcast on the main frequency at which the universe's most common element, hydrogen, absorbs and emits energy, and which astronomers say is the most likely means by which aliens would advertise their presence.
The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI@home project, which uses programmes running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope.
Gort, Klaatu barada nicto!
I have been running SETI@Home for years now. We have contact !!
"Can you hear me now?"
BTTT
More like Kerry people trying to change the subject.
Kerry's people coming to take him home?
"Don't make me come down there!"
BEGIN TRANSLATION
Dear creatures of Earth
We of the planet XXXXXXX are proud to endorse President George W. Bush for another term in office.
Further, all Earthlings please note that Communism doesn't work here either.
END TRANSLATION
You beat me to it. I was going to say, "Four more years, four more years, ...."
Its from the Land of a Thousand Dances.
I am looking forward to your comments, Dr.
I just don't quite get it. Wouldn't you, as an alien trying to advertise yourself, want to distance yourself from any natural-source explanations of your signal?
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1205361/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1205081/posts
Maybe this will be Hillary's "October Surprise". Her reptilian mothership is coming down to proclaim that she is the true queen of the world. (*donning my tin hat just in case*)
Something about how they're interested in a McDonald's franchise.
"We have Elvis! Can you send more Krispy Kremes!"
Check it out...
MB
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