Potential SETI signal

[TerraHertz]

http://www.orrazz.com/2016/08/not-drill-seti-is-investigating.html
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) are 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.


http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248
An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules
by Paul Gilster on August 27, 2016
A candidate signal for SETI is a welcome sign that our efforts in that direction may one day pay off. An international team of researchers has announced the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595” in a document now being circulated through contact person Alexander Panov. The detection was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic of Russia, not far from the border with Georgia in the Caucasus.
The signal was received on May 15, 2015, 18:01:15.65 (sidereal time), at a wavelength of 2.7 cm. The estimated amplitude of the signal is 750 mJy.


Will be following this with interest. Oh, I suppose you've all heard of the recent discovery of a potential Earth-like planet orbiting in the goldilocks zone of Proxima Centauri?

[EEVblog]

 
 

[EEVblog]

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248

[dr.diesel]

So the "pulse" was about 2sec in duration, the article doesn't really specify if it has repeated or not heard from since?

I hope the tape recorder was running.   

[CJay]

Sadly they also haven't managed to rule out terrestrial interference yet either.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/30/seti_institute_damps_down_wow_signal_report_from_russia/

[dr.diesel]

Sadly they also haven't managed to rule out terrestrial interference yet either.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/30/seti_institute_damps_down_wow_signal_report_from_russia/

Well crap, the the above link:

"Right now, as it happens, nobody knows what was spotted by the RATAN-600 telescope in Russia, partly because its operators kept the observation under their hats for more than a year, and partly because it hasn't been repeated."

It was probably encoded with their entire version of Wikipedia, which included FTL travel.

[CJay]

Sadly they also haven't managed to rule out terrestrial interference yet either.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/30/seti_institute_damps_down_wow_signal_report_from_russia/

Well crap, the the above link:

"Right now, as it happens, nobody knows what was spotted by the RATAN-600 telescope in Russia, partly because its operators kept the observation under their hats for more than a year, and partly because it hasn't been repeated."

It was probably encoded with their entire version of Wikipedia, which included FTL travel.

And all the user edits.

'Zabngleboff The Green was once caught qinfargling the dnarbles at Maximegalon University'

[dr.diesel]

Well crap, 

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/turns-out-the-signal-astronomers-saw-was-strong-because-it-came-from-earth/

[Halcyon]

Well crap, 

I was about to say, "Please don't let it be another microwave oven again", like what happened at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia (famous of course for its role in bringing television pictures of the moon landing).

As the story goes, for 17 years, researchers were discovering an odd signal intermittently. Turns out it was a microwave that released a short burst of energy if you interrupted the cooking timer by opening the door. It of course meant the magnetron didn't have time to properly shut off before the door 'seal' was broken.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-05/scientists-discover-signals-being-sent-by-kitchen-microwave/6445570

[TerraHertz]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/turns-out-the-signal-astronomers-saw-was-strong-because-it-came-from-earth/

Darnit. That didn't last long.

[David Hess]

Well crap, 

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/turns-out-the-signal-astronomers-saw-was-strong-because-it-came-from-earth/

Well, that rules out intelligent life.

[raptor1956]

And now let me play Debbie Downer...

It may be that the reason we haven't found intelligent life elsewhere is that almost all advanced civilizations kill themselves off and probably about the level of advancement we're at now.  Invent the bomb and within a century or so when the tech has spread sufficiently it will be used with a vengeance and there goes the advanced civilization.  Seems to me that we would have had convincing evidence of advanced life elsewhere by now and probably a long time ago.  We maybe alone...


Brian

[calexanian]

And now let me play Debbie Downer...

It may be that the reason we haven't found intelligent life elsewhere is that almost all advanced civilizations kill themselves off and probably about the level of advancement we're at now.  Invent the bomb and within a century or so when the tech has spread sufficiently it will be used with a vengeance and there goes the advanced civilization.  Seems to me that we would have had convincing evidence of advanced life elsewhere by now and probably a long time ago.  We maybe alone...


Brian

And factor in the vastness of time and the spread of time throughout the observable universe. Say a civilization has a few thousand years before its wiped out by something. How can we expect others to coincide exactly with us at this moment and factor in signal travel time, etc etc etc. The idea that we would receive something from just a single civilization that we would recognize in the last few decades we could even receive such a signal is remote at best. The other option is that there are many many civilizations going on simultaneously but we just don't know what to look for. Or more likely, they just don't want to talk to us 

[hendorog]

Just when I thought it was safe to take off my tinfoil hat...

..now they've started throwing rocks at us.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/83782338/asteroid-shaves-earth-hours-after-astronomers-spotted-the-space-rock

[VK5RC]

Wasn't the last 'Alien life'  a pulsar?

[nixfu]

Is there an EEVBlog SETI team?

[dr.diesel]

Is there an EEVBlog SETI team?

During the winter months when I can take advantage of the heat I'd be willing to contribute. 

[TerraHertz]

And now let me play Debbie Downer...

It may be that the reason we haven't found intelligent life elsewhere is that almost all advanced civilizations kill themselves off and probably about the level of advancement we're at now.  Invent the bomb and within a century or so when the tech has spread sufficiently it will be used with a vengeance and there goes the advanced civilization.  Seems to me that we would have had convincing evidence of advanced life elsewhere by now and probably a long time ago.  We maybe alone...

Heh. It's worse than that. Behold, the true answer to the Fermi Paradox (imo): http://everist.org/texts/Fermis_Urbex_Paradox.htm   (Presented in the form of a short SF story.)
(I've posted this before, apologies to those who are getting tired of hearing about it.)

[CJay]

That it was an undocumented Russian spy satellite might explain why the Russian observers were reluctant to release the data for scrutiny/review when it was originally acquired