FACT: Aliens are real - GoFuckYourself.com

DarkJedi · 09-01-2004, 02:38 PM

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

Signals are coming from 1000 light years away that could not have been naturally generated. (Binary) FOR REAL NO HOAX

The site is very, very busy for obvious reasons. Try again later if you can't get through. Binary patterns, etc

This is not a joke. New Scientist is a reputable magazine.

MetaMan · 09-01-2004, 02:50 PM

hitler and elvis are on saturn, they are just sending msgs back atm because they ran out of booze.

Fletch XXX · 09-01-2004, 02:50 PM

so is drug abuse.

drugs are bad

Jon · 09-01-2004, 02:51 PM

It's probably some Russian scientists playing with a really big flashlight and fucking with NASA..

volante · 09-01-2004, 02:52 PM

Binary signals from outerspace? That's not aliens, it's George Bush's ego - 1 is as high as he can count...

Donners · 09-01-2004, 02:52 PM

interesting, gonna read it if the page ever loads

TweetyBird · 09-01-2004, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MetaMan
hitler and elvis are on saturn, they are just sending msgs back atm because they ran out of booze.

yeah... that's probably it...

Jeff aka NIGHTfall · 09-01-2004, 02:56 PM

if anyone can get it to load would you mind mirroring the page for just us GFYers?

Jon · 09-01-2004, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jeff aka NIGHTfall
if anyone can get it to load would you mind mirroring the page for just us GFYers?

They are a reputable magazine, and use a virtual host!

Luc · 09-01-2004, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Donners
interesting, gonna read it if the page ever loads

ditto

fr33s3x · 09-01-2004, 02:58 PM

I've read it, and I really don't know what to think about this.

loverboy · 09-01-2004, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NiteChatDotTV
It's probably some Russian scientists playing with a really big flashlight and fucking with NASA..

i bet they are laughing at NASA right now

johnbosh · 09-01-2004, 02:59 PM

there could be alians I think they are very small thoug, like 1 or 2 cells

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 09-01-2004, 03:00 PM

We're all Aliens.

detoxed · 09-01-2004, 03:01 PM

if you get through to the article, paste it here

Libertine · 09-01-2004, 03:02 PM

The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away

19:00 01 September 04

Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.

In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky.

The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got stronger.

This radio signal, now seen on three separate occasions, is an enigma. It could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon. Or it could be something much more mundane, maybe an artefact of the telescope itself.

But it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent aliens in the nearly six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope.

Absorb and emit

?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.?

Unknown signature

The telescope has only observed the signal for about a minute in total, which is not long enough for astronomers to analyse it thoroughly. But, Korpela thinks it unlikely SHGb02+14a is the result of any obvious radio interference or noise, and it does not bear the signature of any known astronomical object.

That does not mean that only aliens could have produced it. ?It may be a natural phenomenon of a previously undreamed-of kind like I stumbled over,? says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath, UK.

It was Bell Burnell who in 1967 noticed a pulsed radio signal which the research team at the time thought was from extraterrestrials but which turned out to be the first ever sighting of a pulsar.

There are other oddities. For instance, the signal?s frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. ?The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that?s rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet,? Korpela says.

This does not, however, convince Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes. He points out that the SETI@home software corrects for any drift in frequency.

Fishy and puzzling

The fact that the signal continues to drift after this correction is ?fishy?, he says. ?If [the aliens] are so smart, they?ll adjust their signal for their planet?s motion.?

The relatively rapid drift of the signal is also puzzling for other reasons. A planet would have to be rotating nearly 40 times faster than Earth to have produced the observed drift; a transmitter on Earth would produce a signal with a drift of about 1.5 hertz per second.

What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. ?It just boggles my mind,? Korpela says.

The signal could be an artefact that, for some reason, always appears to be coming from the same point in the sky. The Arecibo telescope has a fixed dish reflector and scans the skies by changing the position of its receiver relative to the dish.

When the receiver reaches a certain position, it might just be able to reflect waves from the ground onto the dish and then back to itself, making it seem as if the signal was coming from space.

?Perhaps there is an object on the ground near the telescope emitting at about this frequency,? Korpela says. This could be confirmed by using a different telescope to listen for SHGb02+14a.

Possible fraud

There is also the possibility of fraud by someone hacking the SETI@home software to make it return evidence for an extraterrestrial transmission. However, SHGb02+14a was seen on two different occasions by different SETI@home users, and those calculations were confirmed by others.

Then the signal was seen a third time by the SETI@home researchers. The unusual characteristics of the signal also make it unlikely that someone is playing a prank, Korpela says. ?As I can?t think of any way to make a signal like this, I can?t think of any way to fake it.?

David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. ?It?s unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it.? Bell Burnell agrees that it is worth persisting with. ?If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting,? she says.

It is already exciting for IT engineers Oliver Voelker of Logpoint in Nuremberg, Germany and Nate Collins of Farin and Associates in Madison, Wisconsin, who found the signal.

Collins wonders how his bosses will react to company computers finding aliens. ?I might have to explain a little further about just how much I was using [the computers],? he says.

Eugenie Samuel Reich

More Booze · 09-01-2004, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MetaMan
hitler and elvis are on saturn, they are just sending msgs back atm because they ran out of booze.

Are you saying that they need More Booze? :P

pure energy · 09-01-2004, 05:31 PM

There's a great possibility but I'll try to download it

mardigras · 09-01-2004, 05:50 PM

I think out of all the celestial bodies it would be rediculous to think ours would be the only one with life but I just don't see any reason an intelligent race would bother themselves with our barbaric planet

Red Ezra · 09-01-2004, 08:44 PM

that's interesting - but - how the fuck are we suppose to confirm something 1000 light years away - that's probably a space cow ranch emitting methane gas at that frequency

The Truth Hurts · 09-01-2004, 08:49 PM

it's an episode of the honeymooners coming back at us.

koreanbbque · 09-01-2004, 08:57 PM

Speaking of seti... anyone run the seti @ home screen saver?

I've completed 1867 Data units.. I haven't done this in a long time :-) 22555hr 1min 34.2 secs

I think that I'll put it on my servers too :-)

Damnz... if that isn't a sign of being a nerd. i don't know what is.. well..

at least i'm not going to join the Jedi Academy

DickShoke · 09-01-2004, 08:59 PM

shut up...your an idiot

crockett · 09-01-2004, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Donners
interesting, gonna read it if the page ever loads

it's the aliens DDOS attacking their web server..

cold_ice · 09-01-2004, 09:05 PM

Why isn't any other new agency picking this up?

cold_ice · 09-01-2004, 09:10 PM

Coasttocoastam Willl have these guys on tonight.

reynold · 09-01-2004, 10:12 PM

well i saw seven extra ordinary blinking lights in the night sky last night. what do you reckon?

09-01-2004, 02:38 PM	#1
DarkJedi No Refunds Issued. Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: GFY Posts: 28,300	FACT: Aliens are real http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341 Signals are coming from 1000 light years away that could not have been naturally generated. (Binary) FOR REAL NO HOAX The site is very, very busy for obvious reasons. Try again later if you can't get through. Binary patterns, etc This is not a joke. New Scientist is a reputable magazine.

09-01-2004, 02:50 PM	#3
Fletch XXX GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!! Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: that 504 Posts: 60,840	so is drug abuse. drugs are bad __________________ Want an Android App for your tube, membership, or free site? Need banners or promo material? Hit us up (ICQ Fletch: 148841377) or email me fletchxxx at gmail.com - recent work - About me

09-01-2004, 02:51 PM	#4
Jon Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 2,578	It's probably some Russian scientists playing with a really big flashlight and fucking with NASA.. __________________ WickedFire.com - Stay here. We don't need more of you. Not unless you have money, then, fine...

09-01-2004, 02:56 PM	#8
Jeff aka NIGHTfall Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Port St. Lucie, Florida Posts: 5,162	if anyone can get it to load would you mind mirroring the page for just us GFYers? __________________ Register Now For PimpinPays.com

09-01-2004, 02:58 PM	#11
fr33s3x Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5,064	I've read it, and I really don't know what to think about this. __________________

09-01-2004, 02:50 PM	#2
MetaMan I AM WEB 2.0 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 28,682	hitler and elvis are on saturn, they are just sending msgs back atm because they ran out of booze.

09-01-2004, 02:52 PM	#5
volante Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: LAX Immigration Posts: 2,940	Binary signals from outerspace? That's not aliens, it's George Bush's ego - 1 is as high as he can count...

09-01-2004, 02:52 PM	#6
Donners Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 689	interesting, gonna read it if the page ever loads

09-01-2004, 02:59 PM	#13
johnbosh Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Netherlands, Rotterdam Posts: 8,965	there could be alians I think they are very small thoug, like 1 or 2 cells

09-01-2004, 03:00 PM	#14
AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE best designer on GFY Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IALIEN.COM - High Definition Video and Photographic Productions -ICQ 78943384 Posts: 30,307	We're all Aliens. __________________ NAKED HOSTING FTW!11 I'm On The INSANE PLAN $9.95/mo! \| The Alien Blog Adult News Worth Reading Updated Daily \| Content For Sale! 641 PICS 216 MINUTES OF VIDEO $350.00 \|ICQ: 78943384 \|

09-01-2004, 03:01 PM	#15
detoxed vip member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 17,798	if you get through to the article, paste it here

09-01-2004, 03:02 PM	#16
Libertine sex dwarf Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 17,860	The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away 19:00 01 September 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky. The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got stronger. This radio signal, now seen on three separate occasions, is an enigma. It could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon. Or it could be something much more mundane, maybe an artefact of the telescope itself. But it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent aliens in the nearly six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope. Absorb and emit ?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.? Unknown signature The telescope has only observed the signal for about a minute in total, which is not long enough for astronomers to analyse it thoroughly. But, Korpela thinks it unlikely SHGb02+14a is the result of any obvious radio interference or noise, and it does not bear the signature of any known astronomical object. That does not mean that only aliens could have produced it. ?It may be a natural phenomenon of a previously undreamed-of kind like I stumbled over,? says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath, UK. It was Bell Burnell who in 1967 noticed a pulsed radio signal which the research team at the time thought was from extraterrestrials but which turned out to be the first ever sighting of a pulsar. There are other oddities. For instance, the signal?s frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. ?The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that?s rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet,? Korpela says. This does not, however, convince Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes. He points out that the SETI@home software corrects for any drift in frequency. Fishy and puzzling The fact that the signal continues to drift after this correction is ?fishy?, he says. ?If [the aliens] are so smart, they?ll adjust their signal for their planet?s motion.? The relatively rapid drift of the signal is also puzzling for other reasons. A planet would have to be rotating nearly 40 times faster than Earth to have produced the observed drift; a transmitter on Earth would produce a signal with a drift of about 1.5 hertz per second. What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. ?It just boggles my mind,? Korpela says. The signal could be an artefact that, for some reason, always appears to be coming from the same point in the sky. The Arecibo telescope has a fixed dish reflector and scans the skies by changing the position of its receiver relative to the dish. When the receiver reaches a certain position, it might just be able to reflect waves from the ground onto the dish and then back to itself, making it seem as if the signal was coming from space. ?Perhaps there is an object on the ground near the telescope emitting at about this frequency,? Korpela says. This could be confirmed by using a different telescope to listen for SHGb02+14a. Possible fraud There is also the possibility of fraud by someone hacking the SETI@home software to make it return evidence for an extraterrestrial transmission. However, SHGb02+14a was seen on two different occasions by different SETI@home users, and those calculations were confirmed by others. Then the signal was seen a third time by the SETI@home researchers. The unusual characteristics of the signal also make it unlikely that someone is playing a prank, Korpela says. ?As I can?t think of any way to make a signal like this, I can?t think of any way to fake it.? David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. ?It?s unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it.? Bell Burnell agrees that it is worth persisting with. ?If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting,? she says. It is already exciting for IT engineers Oliver Voelker of Logpoint in Nuremberg, Germany and Nate Collins of Farin and Associates in Madison, Wisconsin, who found the signal. Collins wonders how his bosses will react to company computers finding aliens. ?I might have to explain a little further about just how much I was using [the computers],? he says. Eugenie Samuel Reich __________________ /(bb\|[^b]{2})/

09-01-2004, 05:31 PM	#18
pure energy Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,274	There's a great possibility but I'll try to download it __________________ Click Here to get $42 a sale AND Get FREE MGP Coaching from WebmasterLabor.Com Sign up above then EMAIL info (( at )) webmasterlabor DOT com for your free 1 to 1 MGP coaching

09-01-2004, 05:50 PM	#19
mardigras Bon temps! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: down yonder Posts: 14,194	I think out of all the celestial bodies it would be rediculous to think ours would be the only one with life but I just don't see any reason an intelligent race would bother themselves with our barbaric planet __________________ .

09-01-2004, 08:44 PM	#20
Red Ezra redezra.com Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vegas Baby! Posts: 4,680	that's interesting - but - how the fuck are we suppose to confirm something 1000 light years away - that's probably a space cow ranch emitting methane gas at that frequency

09-01-2004, 08:49 PM	#21
The Truth Hurts Zph7YXfjMhg Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In Your Skull Posts: 15,304	it's an episode of the honeymooners coming back at us.

09-01-2004, 08:57 PM	#22
koreanbbque Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Riverside and San Diego Posts: 688	Speaking of seti... anyone run the seti @ home screen saver? I've completed 1867 Data units.. I haven't done this in a long time :-) 22555hr 1min 34.2 secs I think that I'll put it on my servers too :-) Damnz... if that isn't a sign of being a nerd. i don't know what is.. well.. at least i'm not going to join the Jedi Academy __________________ KBBQ 2 3 1 6 1 8 8 1 6

09-01-2004, 08:59 PM	#23
DickShoke Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Cyberspace Posts: 1,236	shut up...your an idiot __________________ MILF Porn Creampie BBW Recommended -->Webcam Porn Big Tit Filipina Porn Indian Sex Big Cock Thai Porn

09-01-2004, 09:05 PM	#25
cold_ice Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: cali Posts: 3,027	Why isn't any other new agency picking this up?

09-01-2004, 09:10 PM	#26
cold_ice Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: cali Posts: 3,027	Coasttocoastam Willl have these guys on tonight. Last edited by cold_ice; 09-01-2004 at 09:13 PM..

09-01-2004, 10:12 PM	#27
reynold Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Global Traveler Posts: 51,271	well i saw seven extra ordinary blinking lights in the night sky last night. what do you reckon?