FYI

[autopilot]

http://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-drill ... eep-space/

we are not alone

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZif3WmG7I[/youtube]

[goroth]

Between this and Tabby's star it looks like Fermi's Paradox might be getting less parodoxal in the nearish future.

Wow!
(No SETI pun intended)

[Inconuucl]

Eh, I don't believe it yet. Lots of unexplained signals out there. I'm hopeful but skeptical.

[D.o.S.]

A) Anything we pick up from space is 'Extraterrestrial'. So, yes, by definition SETI investigates 'only' extraterrestrial signals, not 'possibly extraterrestrial signals'. Unless it's a hoax, I guess.

B) Sort of inclined to think that this is a new variation of cosmic background noise until they discover anything about it that would have had to be derived from a thoughtful origin point -- prime number sequences, baking recipes, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk in it's entirety without the pauses as Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard, etc.

C) My personal bias is to treat it as a leak of the new Lustmord record:
https://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/ ... atter.html

[Jwar]

Bring it on you fucking alien fucks!!!!!!!!

Sorry that's about all I can add...

[Iommic Pope]

A) Anything we pick up from space is 'Extraterrestrial'. So, yes, by definition SETI investigates 'only' extraterrestrial signals, not 'possibly extraterrestrial signals'. Unless it's a hoax, I guess.

B) Sort of inclined to think that this is a new variation of cosmic background noise until they discover anything about it that would have had to be derived from a thoughtful origin point -- prime number sequences, baking recipes, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk in it's entirety without the pauses as Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard, etc.

C) My personal bias is to treat it as a leak of the new Lustmord record:
https://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/ ... atter.html

Also, I'd treat any civilisation that thought Tusk, or its alien equivalent, was fit for interstellar orbit should be knocked down from Type II status upon merit of that fact alone.

I get excited from news like this though. It offers me hope that soon we might be forced to abandon the past few thousand years of stupidity and hate and get our shit together.
We can make it past a Type I status people! Let's do this!

[goroth]

In all likelihood it is a natural phenomenon, and just like tabby's star we simply lack the science to explain it at present.

What is interesting however is that in a short space of time we now have two unexplained phenomena where one of the possible explanations is extraterrestrial intelligence. With better telescopes and monitoring we should (perhaps) be able to find more and more strange stuff, thus increasing the likelihood of finding something that is genuinely alien.

[Iommic Pope]

^Exactly.
No doubt it will wind up being a natural phenomenon but it still gives me hope.

[autopilot]

the real question you should ask is, which side will you root for?

and since is millions light years, perhaps is a signal from the future received in the past

[snipelfritz]

Aliens = new friends

[D.o.S.]

I hope they bring enough koozies for everyone.

[Chankgeez]

http://www.space.com/33922-mysterious-s ... cause.html

[MSUsousaphone]

Yay.

Can't wait for a beings of higher intelligence to get to meet Trump or Clinton.......