Probably Just an Alien Makeover Show

[ursangnome]

In 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?

Comments

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Hm. "Debunked" is a bit strong. It implies that the original was "bunk", and possibly deliberate bunk.

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.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

If you say so, but look at the URL tag you used....

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I fail to see what mysterious information you seem to find in the url tags.

This

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Where you wrote SETI@home has detected a signal worthy of a second look.

No, in fact, they haven't.

Re: This

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, SETI@home has come up with about 150 instances that merited a second look...

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".