Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

I never described her as anything.

 

This has already been mentioned. You described her as an abused spouse.

 

Ok, I triple checked.
This still is the SETI thread, right?

 

That's funny!

 

If only there were such a device.

ETA: What device?

 

How would you know if it were used on you?

 

Maybe we should be on the look out for an extraterrestrial message that will teach us how to make such a device.

 

You'd only have pleasant memories.

 

Depends ob if the guy attached to it introduced himself as J or K.

Edit: on that note, the signal in question was just swamp gas illuminated by light reflected of venus.
Nothing to see, move along!

 

Those damn saucer-shaped weather balloons!

 

Extraterrestrial drivers in Russia are the worst.

 

Are they sending signals investigated by seti? If they are , we're back in business.

 

Certainly. Every single one of them drives with a dash transmitter.

 

Bingo!

 

We know where to look in the case of our own probes of course.

Radio astronomy works fine. Then too, pulsars quasars--all these are likely far above the power of, say, a very weak SETI signal on its last legs. I wonder if the cells I saw on Science Channel about the heliopause could do something.

Now I'm not normally one who gets science from coast-to-coast AM, But Art Bell played an interesting tape from a fellow Ham who heard his own transmission reflected a good ten count later. I can't imagine how many traffic signs or stalled cars that had to bounce between to do that. Even moon-bounce signals get back faster. We see s'ferics with severe storms, whistlers, etc.

It still makes me wonder about the weakest of signals...

 

Have radio hams never heard of the Ionosphere and long delayed echoes (LDEs)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_delayed_echo

However, the cause of some LDEs has in the past been attributed to an alien Bracewell probe from ε Boötis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Lunan

Unfortunately, ε Boötis is thought to be less than 40 million years old.

Regarding our probes, I assume that their signals are the strength that we expect or someone would have investigated any anomalous attenuation -- much like as for the anomalous deceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly

However, that's only my assumption.

Regarding the heliopause, I assume you mean the turbulence in the solar wind as it is slowed in the heliosheath. I assume any attenuation due to turbulent plasma would lead to scintillation. However, I don't know the likely frequency range or degree of attenuation that would be expected.

 

It's only speculation on my part. One more reason for faster probes, larger dishes, etc. I'd love to go to Proxima for no other reason than to see what our Solar System looks like from the outside....

 

It looks exactly like any other star. It's likely that you would have trouble finding it without instructions.