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Chapter 23: Maxwell and the nerds

#136: Feb. - Mar. 2015 (Non-Fiction)
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Carl Sagan wrote:Less than a century after Maxwell's prediction of radio waves, the first quest was initiated for signals from possible civilizations on planets of other stars. Since then there have been a number of searches, some of which I referred to earlier, for the time-varying electric and magnetic fields crossing the vast interstellar distances from possible other intelligences - biologically very different from us - who had also benefited sometime in their histories from the insights of local counterparts of James Clerk Maxwell.
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What are those things? For the past eight years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a series of strange radio signals emanating from somewhere in the cosmos. And now, the mystery has deepened.

A new study shows that the so-called "fast radio bursts" follow a weirdly specific pattern -- a finding that the researchers behind the study say "is very hard to explain. There is something really interesting we need to understand," study co-author Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, told New Scientist. "This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an E.T."

4/2/15
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/0 ... 84870.html
not this time

http://gizmodo.com/an-alien-radio-beaco ... 1695628907

But faith is important here, so lets keep believing.
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No faith at all, just interesting data to analyze.
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LanDroid wrote:No faith at all, just interesting data to analyze.

Dont you have faith that SETI is not in vain?

Or is just the data that excites you?

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No faith, but it is worth checking out.
What faith leads you to support SETI?
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