NEWS: Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact? Not Likely.

GEEK: Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact? Not Likely.

Scientists in Puerto Rico at the Arecibo Observatory have picked up an unexplained signal coming from a point in space between the Pisces and Aries constellations. Although it could possibly be caused by some currently unknown astronomical phenomenon, some scientists believe that the signal could be a likely form of interstellar communication.

The signal was first detected by the SETI@Home Project, a distributed computing project that analyzes data from Arecibo, and the story broke with great enthusiasm from New Scientist magazine. SETI's lead researchers, after analyzing the data that sparked the excitement, have released a statement saying that the odds are "extremely slim" that this signal was created as a message from extraterrestrials.

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it had better not be my fucking dad.

Your dad's an extraterrestrial?

jodie foster's is

Yeah.. what a fucking rip that was. 2 and half hours and only to find out the alien was her father.

South Park's Mr Garison was even pissed.

I think it would be funny if the signal we pick up from an alien civilization is one of their shitty sitcoms.

"According To Klarznar"

"Everyone Loves Hgaralia"

hehehe, my seti@home program processes data from Arecibo Observatory, I wonder if I helped with that.

Or demands to see more episodes of "Single Female Lawyer"...

as does mine, i know im the one that helped the most

A pause for movie geek trivia:

The Arecibo Radio Telescope once doubled as a weapon of mass destruction supposedly located in Cuba for the movie "Goldeneye".

I once visited it on a school trip while I was in Jr. High (One of Puerto Rico's more underrated tourist destinations") and remember just being overwhelmed by it's enormity. If I'm not mistaken, It's the only one of it's kind and one of the largest, (if not the second largest) "interplanetary power dialer" in the world.

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Is this why I'm having nosebleeds and the unexplicable urge to make a mountain sculpture out of my mashed potatos?

guys. the aliens took the form OF her father to make her more comfortable.

Did you even watch the movie?

Aw shit, they found me!

Wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of alien yuppie children stole their dad's cell phone for the transmission.

Roaming fees, long distance minutes... they'd come and nuke the planet just to avoid the charges.

"But you see, there IS no such place so a call COULDN'T have gone there."

And if you've read the book, you learn that it's not even her biological father.

Hey, I just got a message from an alien...

"Keep on Truckin': What does that mean?"

oh shit real life star wars!

We're mostly harmless.

why am i suddenly reminded of the episode of "amazing stories" with the aliens that came to earth after recieving our sitcoms for 30+ years. similar thing happened in the movie "the explorers".

oooo.... IT could be bounce back feed from one of the universe's greatest shows "EARTH"

"This means something! This is important!"

Vitamin B-52?*



*an even more obscure dumb sci movie reference

although, it could be just a preliminary survey for planned intergalactic space highway...