Re: Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away...

Damn: 

Looks like I won't win that $10,000 to $1 bet with the science bookie
just yet.  .  

The article refers to SETI signal SHGb02+14a which I think is old
news.   

---[ here is some of the text ]-------------------
�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.

SHGb02+14a seems to be coming from a point between the constellations
Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system
within 1000 light years. And the transmission is very weak. 

�We are looking for something that screams out �artificial�,� says UCB
researcher Eric Korpela, who completed the analysis of the signal in
April. �This just doesn�t do that, but it could be because it is
distant.�




On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:44:45 -0400, "10JQKA@nospam.com"
<10JKQA@nospam.com> wrote:

I saw a link to a story titled: 

Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away... 

It is on www.newscientist.com but the site seems to be down or some
such.  


Anyone have details on what it is about? 

Thanks. 

Ps: the link is: 

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341