"10JQKA@nospam.com" <10JKQA@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:s9fcj0p469lhgrpd90oeidspvk9q079ug2@4ax.com...

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

The New scientist report says that one of the people who analysed the
signal was Oliver Voelker from Nuremberg, Germany. About 3 years ago
there was a character called Oliver from Germany who boasted on this
newsgroup that he had patched the SETI@home software. Anybody remember
his surname (if he ever posted it)?

-- 
Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net