i.e. no data analysis for candidate signals has been done since 2002!

Candidate Signals

There are currently no plans to do any! Why? i hear you ask... well don't ask you may not like the answer.

Just Keep Crunching! <Blindermode ON>

Enigma.

What? I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not doing this for "credits" or to see how many data units my machine can crunch. I've been wondering where the "science" was since I started back in doing this a few weeks ago. Unless I've missed something, the only info regarding results (good, bad or indifferent) isn't even on the new web site, and is years old. That's pretty pathetic.

If SETI isn't going to analyze the data, and start posting some current info on what's been found (or not), then I really don't have much interest in continuing to participate. I mean - for what? To improve my RAC numbers? What a joke...

Does anyone have any info on SETI's plans to start publicly sharing some information here regarding the status of the "science" of what we're all supposed to be working on?

Riffrafter, dont give up hope,
I will help you find the information you want.
Look, start with these links, There is a lott of information in them.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sci_status.html


http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_plans.php#recorder

This link has a tonne of information about the science involved in the Arecibo ALFA receiver.
http://www.naic.edu/alfa/

If you want more specific answers i would be happy to answer any questions you have. I post this stuff out to my team members all the time. I would love for you to join.

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Here is another thing as well. Have a look at this. Don't bother too much with the text.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-163352743368759494&q=2+UFO's+on+patrol

It shows nothing the first 5 seconds out of 9, so do a replay of it.
If you look carefully, there are two moving objects (from the left to the right).

What is it ? Anyone able to do a video analysis perhaps ?

fjernhode

Looked like a couple of birds to me.

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Here is another thing as well. Have a look at this. Don't bother too much with the text.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-163352743368759494&q=2+UFO's+on+patrol

It shows nothing the first 5 seconds out of 9, so do a replay of it.
If you look carefully, there are two moving objects (from the left to the right).

What is it ? Anyone able to do a video analysis perhaps ?

fjernhode

Bugs flying by the lens.

"In October 2004, I had a workunit under Seti@Home 3.08 that produced a strong line a little to the left of the middle of the scale. The workunit may have run for 5 seconds and then exited."

I got one of those, too, and I happened to be lucky enough to be watching the screen at the time. It looked as though a razor thin wall had appeared down the middle of the screen, standing well above the rest of the background. The data set ran a couple of times, then promptly forwarded itself to "100% complete" and returned the result. What I saw was definitely a radio signal- but one of the RFI type, I'm afraid, not the ET type.

That said, has anyone else noticed that the redistributed work units being sent out currently look like a "Best of SETI" collection? Awesome spikes on many, and on one I saw a triplet that was three exactly even pulses, evenly spaced, and so strong the graphic changed from red to green at the top of the pulses. It was very exciting. Heck, it was good enough to convince me it was an alien signal!(... but I was pre-convinced anyway) Good thing I'm not a scientist;-)

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"In October 2004, I had a workunit under Seti@Home 3.08 that produced a strong line a little to the left of the middle of the scale. The workunit may have run for 5 seconds and then exited."

I got one of those, too, and I happened to be lucky enough to be watching the screen at the time. It looked as though a razor thin wall had appeared down the middle of the screen, standing well above the rest of the background. The data set ran a couple of times, then promptly forwarded itself to "100% complete" and returned the result. What I saw was definitely a radio signal- but one of the RFI type, I'm afraid, not the ET type.

That said, has anyone else noticed that the redistributed work units being sent out currently look like a "Best of SETI" collection? Awesome spikes on many, and on one I saw a triplet that was three exactly even pulses, evenly spaced, and so strong the graphic changed from red to green at the top of the pulses. It was very exciting. Heck, it was good enough to convince me it was an alien signal!(... but I was pre-convinced anyway) Good thing I'm not a scientist;-)

Wow, that sounds like an interesting one Yogi. It could well have been a signal from an ET soarse.

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Here is another thing as well. Have a look at this. Don't bother too much with the text.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-163352743368759494&q=2+UFO's+on+patrol

It shows nothing the first 5 seconds out of 9, so do a replay of it.
If you look carefully, there are two moving objects (from the left to the right).

What is it ? Anyone able to do a video analysis perhaps ?

fjernhode

Bugs flying by the lens.

Have a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1360078283177272448

Unfortunately the quality does not match the local file.

Be patient - there are two of them.

My eyeballs are seeing flapping wings in that video, especially with the second object that flies by. I'll lay my chips on "birds" for them.

In the previous video, the objects appear to be very close in the foreground to my eyeballs. They also, to my eyeballs, have the flight characteristics of bugs, but I could go with them being further out and birds also. *shrug*

Either way, my eyeballs aren't seeing any "unidentified" flying objects in either video.

Unfortunetly... :-)

fjernhode, Here are the videos as clickable links.
Makes it easer for viewing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1360078283177272448

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=592097950168833959

Yep, them are aliens alright. without a shadow of a doubt!

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Ive been running this on multiple computers for a few months now. While I dont mind running it, it does raise the concern if anyone has actually found ANYTHING at all other than just static or noise. Does seti@home program alert you when it finds something or what?

Just curious.

No.

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

Dragging this thread away from dubious videos (which I am not bothering to view) and back towards any interesting findings by SETI@home, I'm a little surprised that no-one (as far as I see) has mentioned the signal that has been discussed in scientific journals such as New Scientist a few years ago.

I can't recall exactly the name of the signal (who can hold that against me, the signal names suck for catchiness), but I do know that it was a signal which was observed on three seperate occassions in the same location (where there is no star system within 1,000 light years or something). The observations were checked and verified by multiple SETI@home users and also SETI itself. It was at the 1420Hz bandwidth where we search, due to reasons of conductiveness through Hydrogen. The signal drifts in a strange manner according to both how the program automatically adjusts to signals adjusted to the rotation of the planet and whatever. Apparently the signal has ceased broadcasting.

Anyhow, this article spoke to Dan Wertheimer a few years ago and basically they decided that:

1) The signal did not seem to be of natural origin.
2) The signal was possibly the first observation of a new natural phenomenon (similar to the first observation of a pulsar star).
3) The signal was not the result of hacked or sabotaged calculations.
4) The signal was possibly due to a freakish reflection of a ground source, perhaps even the telescope reflecting back to itself.

Ultimately they didn't want to say it was the ET signal we've all been hoping for. They thought it best to wait and see if the signal could be observed by other telescopes in order to rule out the possibility that it was a phenomenon unique to Aricebo.

Anyhow, as far as I know, we are still waiting for any further information on this signal.

Please if anyone knows more about this than I can recall, feel free to add what you know and correct me where I may be wrong.

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
Search for your own intelligence...

When I run Seti I think of it as a contribution to learn how to process signals, not only the search.

I am almost certain that we're not doing it right, but I'm sure we will learn in time. That is why it is important to classify the Seti project as a whole project, not only the search alone.

An example, what if we find out that civilizations tend to mask their signals? Like sending fragments on several frequencies and in the end collect them as one. In the future, if we manage to keep Seti going, we might have technology to do such computation.

But if we impatiently close the Seti because "it didn't work" we will never find out!

Just my .2 pesetas

....Please if anyone knows more about this than I can recall, feel free to add what you know and correct me where I may be wrong.

The archive for that story is here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6341-mysterious-signals-from-light-years-away.html

if you cannot access it (its in the membership section) and wish to give me a shout.

Hi all

ive just returned a unit that as stated above had three strong signals breeching the green tips at the top of the peaks and evenly spaced and it was for me a new feeling as ive seen many spikes etc but nothing as pronounced as this unit

unit number was either(id) 110688836 or id 110640095

it was great to look at but if it was a signal i fear its a beakon or satalite or something else earth bound but we live in hope:)

i hope seti do publish findings as not doing so kinda defeats the point in doing it wether i like doing it or not and im always keeping an eye on the units as i dont sleep much and signed of for mental/physical probs so ive allot of time to watch etc

keep crunching:)


steve

Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Thanks for the link Walla. Seems to be quite a reasonable approach.

Since the area that has already been searched pales in comparison to the searchable area and is compounded by the distance the the signal needs to travel, it makes for a certain window of opportunity for detection. It could be centuries, or millenia. Hopefully the expanded search with Hat Creek will hasten the results.

http://www.seti.org/site/pp.aspx?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=179290

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