Probably nothing but... weird spike in the screensaver

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Message 1566958 - Posted: 4 Sep 2014, 12:57:04 UTC
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I was just by random looking at the screen saver of the workunit 21dc08ah.25672.10706.438086664205.12.238_0 , when I saw a huge power spike acroos all the time axis in one line, didn't react in time to save a scrennshot, but I can share this data about that workunit:


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Message 1566963 - Posted: 4 Sep 2014, 13:15:54 UTC

Spikes and pulses are pretty common while analyzing the data. There are also signals recorded terrestrial satellites sometimes. I think most of those are filtered out before we see them, but they may not all be.

If the screen saver works like it did 15 years ago on classic. You are not going to see a signal from ET on the screen saver output.
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Message 1566964 - Posted: 4 Sep 2014, 13:18:15 UTC - in response to Message 1566963.  

Yes, I agree, but after all this time running SETI this was the first time seeing something so weird in the screensaver, so it got my atention :)
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