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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:15PM
Nonono. The lizard people are from Thuban [wikipedia.org], not Nibiru! They have a communications relay on Saturn with a downlink to the moon, but that all doesn't seem very well in the vicinity of the Hercules constellation where HD 164595 can be found. It looks like the moon and Saturn will be in decent alignment around the 8th [earthsky.org], so I'd expect a data burst then.
Everybody make sure to wear turquoise on the 8th!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:31PM
Awesome and thanks for sharing. I will build a large antenna into my girlfriends phoenician purple dildo and insert it deep into my anus so that I may receive Hilary's wisdom and adequately prepare for another Clinton presidency and this years Saturnalia.