Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

But how deep are we talking here?

http://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-d...cket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

 

This sort of thing is exciting, but also very early. If it turns out to be a signal from another civilization, it will be the single biggest event and discovery in all of human history.

But wake me when they actually find something concrete. I wish they wouldn't release stuff like this until it is further vetted.

 

95 light years away. Pfft. They don't even know we exist yet.

We have a sneak attack opportunity, people.

 

Interesting. Can't jump to conclusions though. Last time I turned out to be a microwave in the break room

 

A man that thinks ahead. I like it.

 

wait I though the govt was keeping all this secret!

 

This will just be another "false positive", something to keep the appetite of the Sheeple sated.

 

i read the article and I don't understand why they are saying it would have to be from an advanced civilization. wouldn't our signals reach them?

 

what is the basis for "advanced civilization?" we're that, compared to ancient Greece. Although it would be at least 95 million years since they sent the signals, if we're just now getting them, at the speed of light?

 

I think it is about the power level of the signal.

 

95 years. The star is 95 light years away, not 95million. That would be something indeed!

 

they were talking about a dyson sphere so that's pretty damn advanced compared to us. I though it was 95 light years away?

 

right, but I thought our tv signals traveled that far.

 

ah, I stuck a "million" in there. I didn't read the article

 

Yes, but you might need a gigantic dish to pick them up that far away. And of course, our earliest extra-planet signals could not have reached them yet.

 

And Ringworld or bust. Dyson Spheres are for suckers.

 

I'd prefer a mobile hyperdrive-capable planet-busting space station

 

I'm partial to redheads, and she was great in the breakfast club, but not a fan beyond that.

 

I'm completely wrong about my last post.

But I think it would take 95 years for us to beam a radio wave toward their planet, and we haven't been shooting radio waves out that long, I don't think.