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Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 2:48 pm
(July 17, 2017 at 2:39 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: the spot on the far side of the sun in earth's orbit  isn't useful to us.

Sure it is, what if you want to avoid terrestrial interference? Tongue

Down-linking the telemetry is a bitch, tho.
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm
(July 17, 2017 at 2:48 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(July 17, 2017 at 2:39 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: the spot on the far side of the sun in earth's orbit  isn't useful to us.

Sure it is, what if you want to avoid terrestrial interference?  Tongue

Down-linking the telemetry is a bitch, tho.

um . . . 


yeah.

The down link is a bitch.


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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 3:55 pm
(July 17, 2017 at 2:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(July 17, 2017 at 12:41 pm)Chad32 Wrote: So it is possible, however unlikely, that some aliens got a satellite in orbit around a star, and we've detected it? Though it would be kind of funny if we may have just found one of our lost satellites that's orbiting another star right now.

Satellites are usually natural.

Not the kind I was thinking of.
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 4:07 pm
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 10:03 pm
I hope it had a really hard driving club beat. I don't think those Arecibo boys get out much. 
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 17, 2017 at 10:07 pm
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of course it's not aliens.

The crew of this thing were humans, for some reason...

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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 21, 2017 at 3:24 pm
Yup, satellites in GEO-

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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 21, 2017 at 3:37 pm
LOL, I had it right the first time.

In my defense, I figured they looked (listened?) longer than 10 minutes.
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 21, 2017 at 3:39 pm
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RE: Scientists detect mystery radio signal from nearby star
July 21, 2017 at 8:04 pm (This post was last modified: July 21, 2017 at 8:06 pm by Fireball.)
(July 21, 2017 at 3:37 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: LOL, I had it right the first time.

In my defense, I figured they looked (listened?) longer than 10 minutes.

That duration would depend on the beam-width of the antenna, and if it is steerable beyond using the earth's rotation (i.e., electronically. It's at least steerable North-South, or they'd be limited to a small slice of sky.
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