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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:39AM (#396475)

    The champion for planet Earth should be:

    • Harrison Ford
    • William Shatner
    • Will Smith
    • Charlton Heston
    • Matt Damon
    • Somebody else

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:52AM (#396484)

    CowboyNeal, naturally.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:58AM (#396490)

      CowboyNeal, naturally.

      NCommander will be most displeased with your disloyalty!

  • (Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Friday September 02 2016, @06:58AM

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Friday September 02 2016, @06:58AM (#396579)

    Goatse.
    Let's see the aliens escape that black hole.

    In fact, someone else can watch and see if they escape. I'll be blindfolded as I've already had my monthly quote of brain-bleach.

    --
    Genius by birth. Evil by choice.

  • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Friday September 02 2016, @03:27PM

    by Webweasel (567) on Friday September 02 2016, @03:27PM (#396673) Homepage Journal

    Not Homer Simpson?

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    Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956