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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Oumuamua and Tabby' Star. It is part of the human experience to slowly realize we are each an isolated mind in a sea of other isolated minds, and then to spend our lives trying to cross the mighty gulfs between ourselves and others, striving to make a connection. Everybody wants to be found. So it’s natural, as our science has progressed, that the human race should project its collective hopes onto the cosmos and see if anyone else is reaching out to us. The last century is permeated with science fiction of alien visitors, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) is the manifestation of our hopes that someone out there is trying to find us. So great is our desire for contact, we instinctually see aliens in emissions of radiation, in planetary landscapes, and in comets on hyperbolic trajectories. In a sense, we anthropomorphize the universe. The Anthropomorphization of the Universe |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36760 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And some people here are out and out pessimists, quite frankly I wonder why such people get involved with a project such as this in the first place with such negative attitudes. :-( Cheers. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Chris, not every article is from a tabloid. Slate used to be ok. You should be happy for SETI., and all the attention it's getting. Loeb, was on you tube last night. Yes, talked about Oumuamua. Loeb, said he added the light sail comment. Just the rate at which Oumuamua came into our solar system, let alone the rate at which it exited is remarkable. Hoping it will come back. :) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31005 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
If charlatans and hypocrites like Loeb can make a living spouting their drivel, then more fool us for listening to them. Some say it's a shame that ducking stools went out of fashion.For the extremely sad state of science education world wide. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
I saw a report on the science channel last week hinting at the possibility that there is a lot more ordinary matter in the space between the galaxies than had been previous;y estimated. It makes me wonder if and when all the "DARK" matter will be accounted for without making up any new previously unknown particles. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
The Ars Technica community was celebrating (as we will soon) their 20th anniversary a few days ago, mentioning S@h (page 1's last par.) Ars Technica turns 20 years old, and we couldn’t have done it without the community - Jan 14, 2019 Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
Il y a 20 ans : un million d’internautes se lancent aux trousses d'E.T. - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/il-y-a-20-ans-un-million-d-internautes-se-lancent-aux-trousses-d-et-39884751.htm Google Translation (the translation from French to English isn't perfect, far from it, but is good enough to give an idea of the article's content) : Twenty years ago: One Million Internet Users Go After ET https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.fr%2Factualites%2Fil-y-a-20-ans-un-million-d-internautes-se-lancent-aux-trousses-d-et-39884751.htm Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
SETI@home gets a mention in this well rounded, humorous and recently updated article. "The WIRED Guide to Aliens" https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-aliens/ What to Do When ET Phones: There’s a protocol—from the International Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
À la recherche d'ET, les ordinateurs domestiques traitent des données de 200 To | India news, 2019/08/26 https://teles-relay.com/2019/08/26/inde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles/ Translation in English : In Search of ET, Home Computers Handle 200TB Data | India News https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fteles-relay.com%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Finde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles%2F&sandbox=1 Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
NASA's Planet-Hunting Probe Joins the Search for Intelligent Aliens https://www.space.com/breakthrough-listen-nasa-tess-seti-search.html NASA's newest planet hunter is joining the hunt for intelligent aliens. Scientists working on the space agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will collaborate with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI, members of both teams announced today (Oct. 23). "It's exciting that the world's most powerful SETI search, with our partner facilities across the globe, will be collaborating with the TESS team and our most capable planet-hunting machine," Pete Worden, executive director of Breakthrough Initiatives, a program that includes the Breakthrough Listen project, said in a statement. |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
The SETI@home Uses Citizen Scientists to Search for Aliens | By Jenny McGrath, February 1, 2020 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/setihome-citizen-scientists-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ “Over the last 20 years, we’ve gotten billions and billions of potential signals,†said Korpela. “I think at last count, it was close to 20 billion potential signals in our database.†He and the team are working on software to analyze all that information. In some upcoming papers, the team will list the most promising areas of the sky. The software injects signals that the SETI@home team believes mimics what an E.T. would send. Thus far, it hasn’t found anything that resembles this artificial extraterrestrial intelligence. If anything looks interesting, Korpela hopes others might take a look. China’s new FAST Radio Telescope is one of the world’s most powerful. “Maybe if you point a bigger telescope at it, maybe it is interesting,†Korpela said of some of the potential spots. “So that sort of thing might raise the interest of more people, I think.†Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search The head of one of the US's national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs to be taken more seriously. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22526 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
No direct mention of SETI@Home, but it does make interesting listening: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ffzg Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Another British take on the story: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/15/astronomers-to-sweep-entire-sky-for-signs-of-extraterrestrial-life Andrew Siemion has also just given a live interview to BBC News. Both the Guardian and the BBC introduced the story by naming the SETI Institute, although Andrew himself was correctly identified with the Berkeley SETI Centre. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
https://www.foxnews.com/science/search-for-aliens-new-techniques-announced-determine-whether-alone-universe Search for aliens intensifies, new techniques announced to determine 'whether we are alone in the universe' Following the news that scientists discovered a fast radio burst from deep space that is "repeating" every 16 days, experts are increasing their efforts to look for alien life. Scientists at the SETI Institute announced they are working on new techniques to spot "technosignatures" that could potentially indicate the presence of an advanced civilization. SETI will use the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope in New Mexico for their work and provide data to the search system. "The SETI Institute will develop and install an interface on the VLA, permitting unprecedented access to the rich data stream continuously produced by the telescope as it scans the sky," said Andrew Siemion, Breakthrough Listen principal investigator and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI, in a statement. "This interface will allow us to conduct a powerful, wide-area SETI survey that will be vastly more complete than any previous such search." |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Ya Know what fellows and girls ?----Why aren't the following questions being asked and answered ? Maybe they are; but the reporting is extremely poor.
Were subsequent bursts identical to each other. Were the periods exactly the same Was there any modulation within the bursts. What do statistical techniques show about the randomness of the emissions' content. Why then do we even remotely think that the burst s were created by other than natural causes.
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Jon Golding Send message Joined: 20 Apr 00 Posts: 105 Credit: 841,861 RAC: 0 |
Source paper is here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10275.pdf |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Thank you a heap Jon. This answers a good many of my questions--I have printed it out and will study it at length. I will add my ignorance into the question to try to imagine what the source might be . I am fairly well convinced that it must be a periodic event --perhaps one that doesn't emit each rotation. I do expect better reporting and discussion in the lay press and less sensationalism among the poseurs. |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
Dan Werthimer (SETI@home) and Seth Shostak (SETI Institute) feature in the "SoundWorks Collection: Space is a Sound'' documentary https://vimeo.com/390859057 details https://soundworkscollection.com/post/space-is-a-sound Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
In the news not in the way we wanted, but: SETI@Home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues (from Wired) In 1995, the computer scientist David Gedye had an idea that could only originate at a cocktail party. What if the world’s personal computers were linked together on the internet to create a virtual supercomputer that could help with SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence? The network would be able to sort through the massive amounts of data being collected by radio telescopes, seeking signals that might point to an alien civilization around another star. A distributed supercomputer sounded outlandish at the time, but within four years, Gedye and his collaborators had built the software to make it a reality. They called it SETI@home. SETI@home Going into Hibernation (from the SETI Institute) UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI @ home will stop distributing work and go into hibernation on March 31. Two reasons were cited for this action: [The remainder is basically a verbatim of the announcement.] SETI@home to shut down after two decades of crowdsourced alien hunting (from CNet) After March 31, a bunch of amateur alien hunters will regain some personal computing power. The Berkeley SETI Research Center announced Monday that SETI@home, the two-decades-old crowdsourcing effort to hunt for signs of E.T. in radio telescope data using internet-connected computers, is shutting down at the end of the month. |
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