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SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 30 2016, @08:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the perhaps-they-ARE-out-there dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-drill-seti-is-investigating-a-possible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/

An international team of scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation Hercules—95 light years away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.

The unusual signal was originally detected on May 15, 2015, by the Russian Academy of Science-operated RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia, but was kept secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of "a strong signal in the direction of HD164595."

The mysterious star's designation is HD164595, and it's considered to be sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to our own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been discovered in its orbit—HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, "There could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system."

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:31PM (#395448)

    YAP: Yet Another Psyop to keep space relevant, and keep the hoax of 'globe Earth', 'outer space', 'exoplanets' and 'aliens' going. Those people will hopelessly keep kicking this can along the road for as much as possible.

    An international team of scientists

    [..] Russia, but was kept secret from the international community.

    Oh my. A true conspiracy. Not like other conspiracies that are clearly hoaxes.

    (from TFA) This particular civilization’s social structure is theorized to be completely globalized and interconnected.

    Cue the 'globalist' part of the psyop: Startrek-like governments, that even after utopia and being beyond money, somehow demand a strict military pyramid to function, where orders cascade down from the top, barely questioned.

    There are no 'aliens'. There is no 'outer space'.

    Shit's flat as fuck!

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:42PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:42PM (#395453)

    Sirius is a spotlight attached to the dome, and at the end of the ocean is a wall...