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on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:20AM
from the Adding-aliens-to-press-release-to-sound-sexy dept.
from the Adding-aliens-to-press-release-to-sound-sexy dept.
The Breakthrough Listen project discovered what is called a Fast Radio Burst while scanning the skies from Australia as part of the biggest search for extra terrestrial life in the Milky Way and nearby stars.
Breakthrough Listen scientist Danny Price said it was exciting when the burst from billions of light years away was picked up, but it was unlikely aliens were behind it.
[...] It is not the first burst to be detected, with the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope picking up the first one in 2001.
The bursts last for about a millisecond, and sound like an ambulance driving past when picked up by special receivers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-23/search-for-aliens-finds-mysterious-radio-signal/9788202
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 24 2018, @09:09PM (1 child)
You could use radio astronomy to search for signs of intelligent media bouncing off the Moon.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday May 24 2018, @09:13PM
There is no intelligent signal bouncing off the moon. Any signal bouncing off the moon originates either:
1. From an alien civilization, but is too weak, especially after bouncing off the moon, for us to detect.
-OR-
2. Is media from Earth, and therefore does not qualify as intelligent.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.