Radio scans find no evidence of alien tech from interstellar comet 3I/Atlas
The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to be completely natural and free of any alien tech.
The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California found no signs of otherworldly technology from our solar system's latest interstellar visitor.
SETI said it conducted more than seven hours of observations in July soon after the comet was discovered, searching through a wide range of radio signals. The team identified nearly 74 million narrow-band radio signals.
After accounting for human interference or signals matching the object's movement, only slightly more than 200 signals remained, all of which "traced back to technology on the surface of the Earth or our own Earth-orbiting satellites," according to SETI.
Results were published in the Astronomical Journal.
These results "show how realistic it is to detect a signal with the technology we have today," co-author Valeria Garcia Lopez of Furman University said a statement. "That is why it is important to keep searching for technosignatures, even from objects we might not expect to have signals."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science...t-3i-atlas
The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to be completely natural and free of any alien tech.
The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California found no signs of otherworldly technology from our solar system's latest interstellar visitor.
SETI said it conducted more than seven hours of observations in July soon after the comet was discovered, searching through a wide range of radio signals. The team identified nearly 74 million narrow-band radio signals.
After accounting for human interference or signals matching the object's movement, only slightly more than 200 signals remained, all of which "traced back to technology on the surface of the Earth or our own Earth-orbiting satellites," according to SETI.
Results were published in the Astronomical Journal.
These results "show how realistic it is to detect a signal with the technology we have today," co-author Valeria Garcia Lopez of Furman University said a statement. "That is why it is important to keep searching for technosignatures, even from objects we might not expect to have signals."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science...t-3i-atlas
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
