SETI @ Home Is Back

1. SETI had taken their radio telescope array off-line some time ago due to "lack of funds."
2. They announced at the time that they would be coming back online when their liquidity improved.
3. During that interim period, other researchers were discovering large numbers of potentially habitable planets in our "Milky Way" galaxy.
4. Now SETI is looking for home computer owners to donate CPU cycles to their SETI @ home program for analyzing the many terabytes of data they are once again collecting.

As noted in an earlier post, this timing seemed too convenient to be coincidental - planets being discovered while SETI held their arrays off-line. They were looking for funding, and have reportedly received nearly a quarter of a million dollars from thousands of donors, and it is interesting to see that one such donor was noted author, Larry Niven.
Why haven't the non-SETI scientists released the descriptions of any rings found around these worlds, or at least denied their existence?
Are any of the newly notable suns actually surrounded by Dyson Spheres? (or by a ring-shaped portion of one?)
Why are these details being kept out of the public reports of these discoveries?

We'll report more here when it becomes available. Our Area 51 observation post will be on full alert in the weeks to come.

Posted by Listener 43

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Occam and Lunatics

1. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth in its rotation - the same side always faces the Earth.
2. The near side the Moon is relatively low and flat.
3. The far side of the Moon is high and mountainous, with a thicker crust and far more impact craters.
4. Therefore, there must have been another, smaller moon at some time which crashed into the Moon we know and love, causing the differences in the two faces.

This is the line of "reasoning" behind a recent hypothesis presented in Nature magazine. It seems apparent that Nature has lost much of its former luster, moving from testable hypotheses to SyFy scenarios in its pages. Clearly there's been no thought given to the idea that the side facing out might be hit more by meteors and asteroids. Bodies passing between the Earth and the Moon stand a good chance of being attracted to the much larger of the two - the Earth - and bypassing the smaller.

Have none of today's hypothesticians (I find it hard to call them theorists) ever heard of Occam's Razor? There is no reason to add a new moon to the system, when all data has already been explained in a simpler way. Once again, it seems we have supposed scientists creating scenarios in order to garner attention and - they would hope - funding for further research.

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SETI and Timing

1. SETI took their array offline back in April - supposedly due to lack of funds.
2. Just at this time, astronomers were discovering vast numbers of habitable planets.
3. These planets are largely in our general galactic neighborhood.
4. SETI will be bringing their array back online shortly.

Why this timing? What could have been happening during this outage?
Clearly this must be a case of coordination rather than coincidence - the question is:
Who would benefit from such an orchestrated down-time?

Expect more revelations in the near future as our Area 51 observation post will be working around the clock as we seek the answers to the questions we don't dare ask with echelon always listening in.

Posted by Listener 43