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It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal was Actually Just Terrestrial

posted by CoolHand on Thursday September 01 2016, @10:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-we-want-our-little-green-men dept.
Following up on our August 30th SETI story, Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

We thought aliens were making first contact, but it looks like Earth has been caught out by a case of phantom phone vibration on a cosmic scale.

The latest radio signal picked up by SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had excited some folks, but it turns out the signal came from Earth.

Earlier this week, our SETI senses were tingling over news that Russian scientists had discovered a "strong signal" coming out of a star system 95 light-years away. The signal was reportedly picked up by the Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope more than a year ago, coming from the direction of the star HD 164595.

While news sites around the world started calling Jodi Foster for comment on this real-life "Contact" situation, the rest of us (CNET included) were pretty skeptical. For starters, the Russians reportedly only picked up the signal once in 39 tries, and they'd sat on the seemingly exciting news for a year.

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  • (Score: 2) by julian on Thursday September 01 2016, @10:48PM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 01 2016, @10:48PM (#396435)

    Then who was phone?

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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday September 02 2016, @12:49AM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Friday September 02 2016, @12:49AM (#396482) Journal

    Donald Trumps hair piece of course...

    http://trumpdonald.org/ [trumpdonald.org]

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by ilPapa on Friday September 02 2016, @02:22AM

      by ilPapa (2366) on Friday September 02 2016, @02:22AM (#396520) Journal

      I think that whatever that thing is, it's far to grand to call it a mere "hairpiece". We're talking tonsorial architecture here. But it's something he gets from his mother's side of the family (TW: hold on to your hats for this photo of Trump's mom)

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbMi4SGWIAAqORo.jpg [twimg.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Friday September 02 2016, @06:55AM

        by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Friday September 02 2016, @06:55AM (#396578)

        Looks like that photo was taken just after someone started playing Slim Whitmans "Indian Love Song", and just before her head exploded.

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