Major SETI Announcement Tuesday?

[TheAdvocate]

I promised I looked for it.

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[Pastore]

If it's not about finding aliens, what the hell else could it be about? SETI clients have been distributively hosting porn for the past 6 years?

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Editor's update: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute

 

[silverpig]

Editor's update: for all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released - under press embargo - to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.

 

[lokiju]

Someone remember to bump this tomorrow with the update.

 

[AdamK47]

What a waste of electricity. The only thing of value that has come from this is the realization that there isn't anything to be gained by running it.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Here's speculation about it from someone on another forum:

SETI is NOT making an announcement tomorrow that it detected intelligence signals from Uranus -- or any other body part.

In fact, in the words of Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer from the SETI Institute, when asked if that's what the announcement would be about, he responded, "I wish that were true."

They are announcing the "creation" of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.

Basically, this is repackaging an existing division within SETI under Sagan's name for the study of astrobiology. The group also is about to undertake a massive private donations campaign to help fund the $5 million annual cost of the division.

I'll be doing a blog about it, so read it in a couple of hours.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: AdamK47 3DS
What a waste of electricity. The only thing of value that has come from this is the realization that there isn't anything to be gained by running it.

Uh, seti pioneered the DC idea. Folding, FAD, Genome... all those owe their existence to seti.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

SETI has found a signal from Uranus

 

[GagHalfrunt]

They're going to admit that it's all a sham. They're going to stop chasing little green men and instead will try to find some intelligent life here on earth. Sadly, none of them qualify.

 

[TheAdvocate]

morning bump

 

[Pastore]

Link

How unbelievably boring.

 

[FoBoT]

The panel will explain a new emphasis on fundraising from private sources to offset a proposed 50 percent budget cut by NASA for astrobiology research.

 

[trmiv]

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[iamaelephant]

I think it's great that Carl Sagan gets a center named after him. Bravo SETI.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: lokiju
Someone remember to bump this tomorrow with the update.