Has E.T. Made A Call?

This is the only place I've seen this story so far, so I'm kind of skeptical.

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I would like to think if a truely confirmed signal from some otherworldly civilization was picked up, that it would at least be a bulleted headline on CNN.com.... or MSNBC.... or Weekly World News...well, mabye not WWN.

As for how to answer it, I'd advise to make sure it's not a collect call first. Can you imagine that phone bill? Yeash!

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1) Everyone Else is a Zombie relative to You
2) Whether or not it matters is related to the inverse square of the distance between their teeth and your brain
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The BA is looking into it.

I was thinking this was a story from today, but then I realized it's actually from yesterday, which makes me even more skeptical since it's not been picked up by anyone else.

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Follow up, from article:
They estimate that there's an estimated ammount of civilizations? Just like those lazy astronomers to not even bother estimating something, but instead estimating what that estimate would be!

Oh, and run on, sweet sentance, run on!

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Theory of Zombie Relativity:
1) Everyone Else is a Zombie relative to You
2) Whether or not it matters is related to the inverse square of the distance between their teeth and your brain
(Quoted from Demigrog)

SETI Report Bogus

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Yes, after a "Visit" from the MiB.

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The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

In the Year 2525.

"One small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind".

If an astronaut doesn't need good grammar, niether does you.

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I predict this article is a pastiche of other stories, by a reporter who misunderstood something.

The Shostak 2025 quote is surely something dredged up from other stories, back when he was making that prediction. It's not a response someone would give when asked about a new signal. (National Geographic: Alien Life? Astronomers Predict Contact by 2025)

Then, recently, SETI asked for more @home help, because their data volume bloomed: Press Association: ET hunt seeks more home computers

Theory: reporter saw that, was confused, thought data must mean signal, and asked someone at SETI (Wertheimer?) about the Arecibo data. And Wertheimer replied something about if there was a signal then the SETI folks might have trouble decoding it.

Thus, from nothing, something was made. I bet.

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Edit: See also: BA Blog: No alien signal

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Edit: And don't forget to share with KTVU your appreciation for facts and how disappointed you were that their article contained so few of them and mangled the ones it did have. They love feedback. (Contact KTVU.) It makes them better journalists.

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That's about how it reads, as if it were three articles lumped together.

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The hints are all there; the lack of publicity, "We'll know something's out there" instead of "we know", etc.

I went to look up the original, but "Article Not Available". Must have realized their blooper and swept it under the ol' deep pile shag.

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Maybe our feedback helped. More likely, feedback from the actual participants at SETI helped.

I bet Seth Shostak was pretty quick to get on the telephone with KTVU to inquire into the astounding parallel universe that their reporter must have visited.

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As of this writing, it's still available through Google cache if you didn't have a chance to read it and actually want to. I agree it looks like bits and pieces stuck together.

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Yeah, this has been a pretty good day, but it wasn't that good.

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Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

WOW, not!

There is now a much humbler article in its place.

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...I have no comment at this time.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I do. KTVU is entering jerk-journalism territory by blaming the readers for misinterpreting, when the fault lays clearly with the reporter's bollixed-up message about the message. Their shame should be growing.

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It seems like thier original story is in the video, how can anyone mis-interpret what they said? It was very clear they reported on ET.

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Seth Shostak responds:

Has a SETI Signal Been Detected?

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Sounds quite watered down to not insult the media which you may need for later stories.

Led to believe?
Somewhat misleading?
Miscommunication? I guess that applies when you hear what you want.

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