SETI@Home actually worked?

[SALvation]

I thought this was interesting:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&e=2&u=/nm/space_signals_dc

[noldhor]

Oh yes it is! thx!

[He Is Legend]

Wow O_o

Let's hope its not mars attack!

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Very interesting, thanks for posting it.

[EXEcution]

Wow O_o

Let's hope its not mars attack!
its from another solar system durr :confused:
but that its pretty cool, i really hope that the aliens have video games.

[merkwannabe]

its from another solar system durr :confused:
but that its pretty cool, i really hope that the aliens have video games.No you don't! They are probably all as good as Dan so we would never get any frags. :bawling:

[EXEcution]

Yea they prolly got super fast brains and they can just calculae their chances so quickly that everyone will be dead so fast in ssam.

[JIMINATOR]

better watch out, scientists will probably modify combine, rotate, etc the signal, and then you will be looking at a grainy version of hitler adressing the world during the olympics... :eek:

[ThePIT]

If it's confirmed by other analysis etc... wow ! :eek:

[He Is Legend]

I bet aliens make good h4x

[C2H5OH Guy]

wow i hope they can sell me some cheap awesome computer parts :D

[Die Hard]

Don't you just love that!

[ThePIT]

Hope it's not Mental ! :wave: :rofl:

[OUTLAWS 9.99repeating^32]

Here is some good information about radio/TV signals and outer space. I took it from http://answers.google.com from the user "pinkfreud-ga".


"
Here's a quote from astronomy professor Nick Strobel:

" Messages have been attached to the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft,
but they will take thousands of years to reach the nearest stars. Our
main mode of communication is the inadvertant messages we have been
transmitting for several decades now: some of the signal in television
and radio broadcasts leaks out to space and rushes outward at the
speed of light. It takes many years for the radio and television
signals to reach the nearest stars because of the great distances to
even the nearest stars. So perhaps radio astronomers on other planets
are watching the original broadcasts of 'Gilligan's Island' or
'Three's Company' and are seriously reconsidering their decision to
say hello. "

http://www.astronomynotes.com/lifezone/s6.htm

A similar quote from astronomy professor Barbara Ryden:

" In fact, we have been (inadvertently) beaming radio messages into
space for three-quarters of a century, since large-scale commercial
radio broadcasts first began in the 1920's. An expanding sphere of FM
and TV broadcasts surrounds the Earth. (They become increasingly faint
with distance, however, so it's not likely that other civilizations
are intently watching the original broadcasts of 'I Love Lucy''.) If
we ever succeed in detecting radio waves from an alien civilization,
it will probably be the result of the civilization deliberately
broadcasting a very strong signal into outer space saying 'WE ARE
HERE! WE ARE HERE!' "

http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_10/notes45.html

A quote from Dr. Robert Jastrow, founder of NASA's Goddard Institute:

" ...the TV and FM broadcasts, let alone the radar from our defense
installations, are sending out a signal, a shell of radio energy that
signals that there is life on this planet, and that started in
intensity, oh, about 30 years ago, I would say, in the 1960s. And all
those I Love Lucy and Jack Parr shows are spreading out into the
cosmos, and it's been going on for thirty years at the million watt
level. So it's spread out thirty light years. And within thirty light
years there are some dozens of stars. And if they got the word thirty
years ago, they would be sending a reply back to us. And those who are
only fifteen light-years away, will have sent a message back fifteen
years ago, which should just about be reaching us today... I think
that mankind is on the threshold of entering a large cosmic community.
"

http://www.daystarcom.org/interview/08interview.htm
"

As you can tell, Nick Strobel disagrees with Dr. Jastrow in terms of how long it will take signals to reach stars. Strobel thinks that signals will take thousands of years to reach the nearest stars, and Jastrow thinks that it will only take 15-30 years for signals to reach the nearest stars.