Probably Just an Alien Makeover Show
Sep. 2nd, 2004 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursangnomeIn today's "Just too cool to be true" department -
SETI@home has detected a signal worthy of a second look.
Sure, just a little while ago I saw a "UFO" that was probably the Hood milk blimp. And now this comes along. Just as the World Science Fiction Convention opens....
Coincidence?
SETI@home has detected a signal worthy of a second look.
Sure, just a little while ago I saw a "UFO" that was probably the Hood milk blimp. And now this comes along. Just as the World Science Fiction Convention opens....
Coincidence?
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 12:32 pm (UTC)There's a bit of "telephone game" going on, it seems. If you look at The original report in New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/news/nographic.jsp?id=ns99996341) has lots of qualifiers on it that the CNN report does not.
So, not so much a case of debunking as it is merely correcting CNN's overstatement.
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 12:55 pm (UTC)This
Date: 2004-09-02 01:00 pm (UTC)No, in fact, they haven't.
Re: This
Date: 2004-09-02 01:32 pm (UTC)Be that as it may, though - it turned out to be a false alarm, yes. But if every such thing were called "bunk", then the entire human population is made up of bunko artists.
Really. "Inaccurate" does not equal "bunk".
Move along, nothing to see
Date: 2004-09-02 01:21 pm (UTC)I don't generally buy into conspiracy theory, but the latter article makes some part of my brain twitch.
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Date: 2004-09-02 02:04 pm (UTC)