SETI Finds Interesting Signal

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SETI finds suspect signal

SETI finds suspect signal 09/04/2004 03:37 PM

The folks in the SETI project are not real happy with a reporters mis-quoted of a possible signal they have found. It is true that a signal has been found and is on the suspect list but that is about as far as they are willing to go at this time. For the full details straight from the horses mouth read the release from SETI then read the distortion from CNN.

Candidate signal from SETI@home

Candidate signal from SETI@home 09/02/2004 11:51 AM

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“In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky. The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got…

SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not

SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz: SETI@home has turned up an unexplained radio signal from 1000 light years away that's, well, unexplained. From New Scientist:

“It’s the most interesting signal from SETI@home,” says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home. “We’re not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it.”

Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.

Some astronomers have argued that extraterrestrials trying to advertise their presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers conventionally scan this part of the radio spectrum.

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Update: The BBC followed up with a report quoting researchers who say that the news above was blown out of proportion and there is no signal. Nothing to hear here. Move along. (cue X-Files theme) Link

SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors

SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors 09/02/2004 02:04 PM

Space signal studied for alien contact
thanks to SETI@Home

Space signal studied for alien contact
thanks to SETI@Home 09/02/2004 12:11 PM
England (Reuters) -- An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.

There are other explanations besides extraterrestrial contact that may explain the signal. New Scientist said the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself. But the mystery beam has excited astronomers across the world.

"If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England told the magazine.

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lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home

lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home 06/26/2004 11:19 AM
lin-seti 0.8.1

"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..."

"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..." 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

lin-seti 0.8.1

lin-seti 0.8.1 06/28/2004 08:11 AM
A cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.

lin-seti 0.8.2

lin-seti 0.8.2 07/29/2004 10:03 PM
A cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.

SETI@Vatican

SETI@Vatican 05/13/2004 05:10 AM
The Vatican's official astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, has given an interview in which he discusses the Vatican's thinking on what to do if alien intelligence is discovered.

We find an intelligent civilization and there's no way in creation we can communicate with them because they're so alien to us. We can't talk to dolphins now. In which case, we'll never know.

Second scenario: We find the intelligent civilization. We can communicate. We discover that they have the two essentials that theologians talk about for the human soul, intelligence and free will. They know who they are, they're self-aware, and they're able to do something about it. I think dogs are self-aware, but they don't have a whole lot of free will. Maybe computers are the same sort of thing. Human beings have to have both...

A third scenario: We find a dozen civilizations out there, and a bunch of Jehovah's witnesses go up and convert them all. At the end of the day, every civilization is Christian, except the human race is still not too sure about this. I mean, anything's possible.

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SETI still searching for ET

SETI still searching for ET 09/02/2004 01:58 PM
News earlier this week that The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence group, SETI, had found a signal from ET appears to have been over blown. Described by SETI's chief Scientist, Dr Wertheimer, as "hype and noise", he went on to say that it was "nothing that is unusual. It's all out of proportion."

SETI takes data from it's Arecibo Aerial Telescope and distributes it to its thousands of users world wide for analysis. The chunk that set off last Thursday's media frenzy is called SHGb02+14a and was found by computers running the SETI program in Germany and the US. In its 6 years of operation, SETI have found 150 chunks that are potentially signals from ET; these 150 are found by statistical techniques performed on the data, which ascertains the likelihood of it being legitimate. Of the 150, so far 0 have been real.

SETI commented that "With Seti@home having analysed some 50 trillion frequency bands, it is not surprising that a signal like this occurs purely due to chance." Looks like we'll see a 40th edition of ET before ET really does phone home.

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Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers
Instead?

Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers
Instead? 08/10/2004 05:13 AM

SETI Monitor v3.42

SETI Monitor v3.42 12/06/2003 10:54 AM
SETI Monitor is a free add-on for SETI@home. It allows you to monitor the activity of your SETI@home client and see what it finds using almost no CPU power. SETI Monitor shows the signals found by your SETI@home client and saves information about completed work units. [Freeware 207 KB]

New and Improved SETI

New and Improved SETI 01/02/2005 02:05 PM

SETI@home - Mac Style

SETI@home - Mac Style 04/24/2004 06:06 AM
Working hard

Seti narrows the search!

Seti narrows the search! 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
The Seti teams have produced nearly 200 good leads that is sending the Seti group back down to the Arecibo...

SETI@Home to take a closer look

SETI@Home to take a closer look 03/13/2003 10:20 AM

SETI has not found ET: official

SETI has not found ET: official 09/02/2004 11:37 AM
Move along, nothing to see here

Update: SETI Control 2.0

Update: SETI Control 2.0 07/28/2004 11:05 AM
SETI Control makes it possible to control the Darwin (Unix) version of setiathome-BOINC from Mac OS X.

Observing the SETI observatory

Observing the SETI observatory 07/30/2004 12:12 PM
The SETI Institute predicts that we'll detect an extraterrestrial transmission within tw enty years. If that turns out to be true, it'll probably be the folks at UC Berkeley's Hat Creek radio observatory who will have heard the call. Hat Creek is home to the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA), funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

I just returned from a trip with two friends to Hat Creek, about five hours northeast of San Francisco. Leading Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher Jack Welch and his former student, astronomer Jim Gibson, were kind enough to give us a tour of the facility.

More about our visit to Hat Creek in my journal at TheFeature. Link

SETI@Home Dock App Monitors

SETI@Home Dock App Monitors 01/25/2004 06:23 AM
Wmufo 1.2.0 Released

Seti@Home updates client

Seti@Home updates client 06/24/2004 04:40 AM

The Gang at SETI who are using un-used processor cycles on millions of home computers worldwide in the search for ET have updated their home client software. Which runs under something they are calling BOINC which will make it software upgrades and various other things less cumbersome on the participants. [SETI]

SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC

SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC 06/23/2004 05:24 PM

SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020

SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 07/23/2004 11:14 AM

SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT

SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT 01/12/2004 01:53 AM
Going ahead

SETI: ¿Nos apuntan los extraterrestres
con sus láseres?

SETI: ¿Nos apuntan los extraterrestres
con sus láseres? 06/10/2004 09:58 AM

Is SETI Searching for the Wrong Things?

Is SETI Searching for the Wrong Things? 06/17/2005 07:11 PM
An interesting new paper by Milan M. ?irkovi? and Robert J. Bradbury suggests the problem with SETI is that it's searching for the wrong thing. The paper is titled Galactic Gradients, Postbiological Evolution and the Apparent Failure of SETI (PDF format). The authors note that everything we've learned in the last few years makes Fermi's Paradox more distrubing than ever. Common explanations for the lack of ET is that Earth is unique in some way or that all intelligent civilizations self-destruct relatively quickly. This paper propose something else. We've been looking for biological intelligence. The authors believe it may be normal for any intelligent race to evolve into non-biological, information-based life forms. The authors draw on a wide range of sources to theorize about what an advanced technological race that had evolved into machines might look like. For example, machines would likely want to locate in the coldest regions of space to achieve maximum thermal efficiency. The authors note that these ideas were initially explored by SF writers.

retrieve your SETI@home stats

retrieve your SETI@home stats 12/11/2003 05:04 PM
seti-stat on line

SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking

SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
SETI.Germany is closing in on Team Lamb Chop in the SETI@Home standings. Read on to see how you can help!

SETI@home Turns Five Today

SETI@home Turns Five Today 05/21/2004 11:36 AM

SETI denies hearing ET's voice

SETI denies hearing ET's voice 09/04/2004 06:57 AM

Linux Floppy Disk Seti Cruncher

Linux Floppy Disk Seti Cruncher 12/16/2003 10:09 AM
First Release Today

SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released

SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released 07/12/2002 06:40 AM
SETI@Home Results Monitor is a small PHP script that you can use to show off your current SETI@Home work units total on your Website. When invoked, the script connects to the SETI@Home server, retrieves your user stats, and generates a PNG image to display the total number of work units processed so far.

SETI Project Scientist Discusses
Prospects

SETI Project Scientist Discusses
Prospects 12/08/2003 12:53 PM

SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's
Help

SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's
Help 12/18/2003 08:01 AM
GabeK writes "The Register is reporting that the SETI@home project is going to be expanding the scope of their project with the help of Sun. Sun is donating a ...

Monitor SETI command line client
progress

Monitor SETI command line client
progress 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
Thanks to Authoxy, I am finally able to process units for SETI from behind the company firewall. I decided to use the command line client and wanted a way to check the progress of a workunit being processed, so I made this...

SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC

SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC 06/24/2004 01:19 PM
SETI@Home begins their transition to the BOINC client and infrastructure. Congrats to Team Lamb Chop members for their efforts in the "classic" portion of the project and we look forward to your contribution using the new BOINC client.

Site Update: Folding, SETI@Home,
GarageBand Forum

Site Update: Folding, SETI@Home,
GarageBand Forum 01/10/2004 06:49 PM
- MacRumors SETI @ Home Team is going strong and looking for new members. If you would like to help, see our SETI FAQ or visit our Distributed Comput...

SETI tendría que haberse creado con
código abierto, según su director

SETI tendría que haberse creado con
código abierto, según su director 01/17/2004 10:55 PM

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