Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away
"But it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent aliens in the nearly six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope."
Astronomers deny ET signal report
"'It's all hype and noise,' said its chief scientist, Dr Dan Wertheimer. 'We have nothing that is unusual. It's all out of proportion.'"
First we're told how weird it is. Then we're told that it's "hype and noise." Would Wertheimer care to be more specific? It most likely isn't an ET signal, but I'd like to know how this apparent conclusion was determined.
More ominously, I've always suspected that SETI scientists would cringe in alarm if they ever did find something interesting. Radio SETI is a very nice theoretical exercise, but heads might roll if anything were actually discovered.
No comments:
Post a Comment