I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's definitely aliens..

The_Valeyard

So SETI and Russian instruments are picking up very strong signals from star HD164595.

They are trying to figure out whether the signal is artificial or natural like a pulsar or some other phenomenon.

Could be it aliens? Probably not.

Interesting all the same though.

What does anyone here think, or would ye have zero interest in something like this?

Personally I think if the signal was proven to be artificial, it would be one of the biggest events in modern human history.

Here is the story about it:


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/30/health/seti-signal-hd-164595-alien-civilization/

Fr_Dougal

Chinese lanterns.











Bunch of them.











Great bunch of lanterns.

nullzero

I for one welcome our insect overlords.

riffmongous

But somewhere out there, something is watching us. There are alien forces acting in ways we can't perceive. Are we alone in the universe? Impossible. When you consider the wonders that exist all around us.... Voodoo priests of Haiti, Tibetan Numerologists of Appalachia. The unsolved mysteries of...unsolved mysteries. The truth...is out there!

DrumSteve

I want to believe.

SEPT 23 1989

It will be natural but the plot twist is that it's the same as morse code

Firefox11

'Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..'

Giacomo McGubbin

something something rant about religion something something

riffmongous

Firefox11 wrote: »

'Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..'

Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn

foggy_lad

OK Who left their radioactive magnet collection beside the monitoring equipment?

Ted111

I think we should offer friendship to the Aliens.
Ask them to lower their shields to allow an ambassadorial ship
through to discuss peace terms.
When they drop their shields .... Hit them with everything we've got.

The_Valeyard

riffmongous wrote: »

Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn

It's a really, really cool story and soundtrack.

maudgonner

Where the hell is Jodie Foster? She should be decoding this message, and flirting with Matthew McConaughey, and building that machine where she jumped into a vortex or something......seeing her father...I dunno, I kind of lost track of what happened in that film when it went all weird and trippy.

evolving_doors

at 94 light years away it would take about 35 days for that radio signal to reach here. Given how people moan and biawtch when the internet goes down for 1 minute I don't think we'd have the stamina to hold a conversation. (Not to mention finding a translation!).

So ya, even if there were aliens, most of the population would be like 'meh, ain't no one got no time for that' and we'd get back to talking about Donald Trump and getting rid of school uniforms again.

Summer wind

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds.

Jimbob1977

They're using our satellites against us

The_Valeyard

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Chinese lanterns.











Bunch of them.











Great bunch of lanterns.

Clever f*ckers the Chinese, getting lanterns 94 light years away. Bet they claimed all the planets along the way.

endacl

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

something something rant about religion something something

You do tend to, all right. On lots of threads where religion likely wouldn't get a mention at all at all, up pops McGubbin with his funny little angry religious head on him!

James74

Gebgbegb wrote: »

at 94 light years away it would take about 35 days for that radio signal to reach here.

Now I'm no Brian Cox... but I'm not sure you're completely 100% accurate with your maths there. Maybe tweak it a tad by adding...what...a touch under 94 years to that 35 days?

iDave

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

They're using our satellites against us

Times up.

The_Valeyard

iDave wrote: »

Times up.

Swwwwwwwwwweeeeeeehh


Pow pow pow pow pow pow kboooommm

Giacomo McGubbin

endacl wrote: »

You do tend to, all right. On lots of threads where religion likely wouldn't get a mention at all at all, up pops McGubbin with his funny little angry religious head on him!

Sorry I got in before your rant about religion. I suppose if your beat you can try to resort to attacking the poster instead, but it's a bit obvious.

coolhandspan

hi folks, i love the way they knew for months at SETI yet decided not to tell us in case of panic lol...no one cares except us 10 people on boards.

seriously though we need to ignore this signal and develop our technology for a 1,000 years then answer...

Archeron

riffmongous wrote: »

Dun dun dunnn........ dun dun dunnnn

I was trying to fit that into the countdown tune.

Cee-Jay-Cee

It has to be heaven, it's probably getting pretty full there right now and they're trying to signal us to tell us we need to find sonewhere else to go. If God knew they were trying to signal us he'd lose the bap and probably perform a few miracles of the punishment type.

Jaggo

I am claiming dips on the northern hemisphere

The_Valeyard

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

It has to be heaven, it's probably getting pretty full there right now and they're trying to signal us to tell us we need to find sonewhere else to go. If God knew they were trying to signal us he'd lose the bap and probably perform a few miracles of the punishment type.

Wrong way around....hell is now full, the dead will walk the earth.

Pherekydes

"Thank you, NASA. Thank you, NASA. Thank you, NASA!"

Capt'n Midnight

Beware of the Perytons !

nullzero

coolhandspan wrote: »

hi folks, i love the way they knew for months at SETI yet decided not to tell us in case of panic lol...no one cares except us 10 people on boards.

seriously though we need to ignore this signal and develop our technology for a 1,000 years then answer...

True, had this news arrived in the mid 90's during X-Files mania it would have been a bigger deal, these days people are only interested in receiving nude selfies and being knobs, way hey for progress.

Temptamperu

I hope they come and kill us all, I've had enough of everybody's ****e.

buried

A "Dyson Swarm"? Sounds like a race of Buglike Killer Alien Hoovers. I don't like the sounds of that

B.A._Baracus

Sounds interesting.
Given the size of the universe there must be life somewhere. Even if we were to find some old signal from some ancient civilisation.

wes

These kind of stories turn up from time to time, and media exaggerate things. It is most probably not Aliens.

Poor Uncle Tom

wes wrote: »

These kind of stories turn up from time to time, and media exaggerate things. It is most probably not Aliens.

I just heard turnip extravaganza, and I'm in......

kneemos

James74 wrote: »

Now I'm no Brian Cox... but I'm not sure you're completely 100% accurate with your maths there. Maybe tweak it a tad by adding...what...a touch under 94 years to that 35 days?

Ahh **** that.188 years to get a response!

Arghus

Sounds like, from reading the story, that they haven't got a lot to go on. A quote from a guy who no doubt is extremely keen on making sure people pay attention to his research and then a few paragraphs of how it's all very, very unlikely really (interesting how they say that more than likely this is a no-go, according to the experts - which makes the first guy what, exactly?) And then to wrap it all up a bit of summation of the concept of the energy harnessing powers of advanced civilizations.

Diverting and higher than usual quality click-bait.

Arghus

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Personally I think if the signal was proven to be artificial, it would be one of the biggest events in modern human history.

Surely, if the signal was proven to be artifical, it would be the biggest event in human history. Aliens yo.

FunLover18

It's probably just a hitchhiker.

The_Valeyard

coolhandspan wrote: »

hi folks, i love the way they knew for months at SETI yet decided not to tell us in case of panic lol...no one cares except us 10 people on boards.

seriously though we need to ignore this signal and develop our technology for a 1,000 years then answer...

Cant remember where I read this before, but there was a nice short story about humans broadcasting into space trying to make contact with alien races. Finally we receive a signal back, eventually translated, it simply said "be quiet, or they will hear you....."

bigroad

Could it be by any chance one of the star trek ships from the 70 s.

Insect Overlord

nullzero wrote: »

I for one welcome our insect overlords.

You called? :pac:

I wonder how many people will get that... >_>

Ted111 wrote: »

I think we should offer friendship to the Aliens.
Ask them to lower their shields to allow an ambassadorial ship
through to discuss peace terms.
When they drop their shields .... Hit them with everything we've got.

If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Check mate!

StupidLikeAFox

"Send nudes"

endacl

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

Sorry I got in before your rant about religion. I suppose if your beat you can try to resort to attacking the poster instead, but it's a bit obvious.

If my beat what?

Atoms for Peace

A/S/L

Giacomo McGubbin

endacl wrote: »

If my beat what?

resorting to that now ? my you are well beaten.

GreatDefector

DrumSteve wrote: »

I want to believe.

But?

Pac1Man

'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.' - Arthur C. Clarke

Poor Uncle Tom

Pac1Man wrote: »

'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.' - Arthur C. Clarke

What about Schrodinger's universe theory, so it could be a case of both...

SEPT 23 1989

It's a total load of bollocks

And that's fact

faceman

The sad part about all this is if it is aliens, they've reached out into true vastness of the universe in the hope of finding intelligent life but instead found us.