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This hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet. The most likely explanation is that it's radio interference from ourselves. Last time people got excited about this it was satellites, another time it was a microwave oven.
They have tourists at this location in China, to try and make some extra money. The tourists aren't allowed to bring their cellphones - how well do you suppose that's enforced?
This confirms what I've always suspected: microwave ovens are alien technology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opi9bSSUW7c
It's evil! Don't touch it!
“…in mice” is of course the founding member of medical trials
“…in condensed matter” is particle physics
“…may be interference” radio astronomy clearly needs some polish :pIf we were trying to detect a duplicate civilization to ourselves, (assuming our signals had propagated further than ~100 light years) we're certainly not producing signals of sufficient intensity that we could detect our own signals with the detection equipment we're using.
It also seems like there's likely to be a lot of pressures on a civilization to become more energy efficient for a long time before progressing to expensive technologies like dyson spheres and whatnot. I still think such things are our best bet for detecting ET civilizations.
- If they are advanced (+civil), then they would have seen a critical development that this became a necessity, rather than preference.
- They may not be civil: not caring what energy they waste. Advanced but not responsible beings.
- They may be doing something for themselves, leaving traces to different directions. We may have stumbled on a construction site. Nothing of value for sending a response. Would you beam a response to reaction site of a supercollider? In case you did, would you get a "message" back? I doubt it.
- Most probably: interference.
Most articles being pushed now, including this one, are slow to acknowledge this.
Seems like odd behavior.
Most of the sensational headlines coming from China died after someone actually went back and asked the team if they were sure.
Which was then followed up with:
> "The signals that we found so far are all [radio frequency] interference, they're not from extraterrestrials, they're from terrestrials," Dan Werthimer, a SETI researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who coauthored a preprint paper about the findings, told Futurism. [1]
Electronic publication opened the door for easy money in the form of ad revenue for very little effort and risk (compared to print media of old).
Just looking at the categories listed under "space" provides some inside into the quality and expected depth of the site: "Aliens", "Elon Musk", "NASA", "SpaceX", "Astronaut"(sic!), "Mars", and "Planets".
If these are the browsable "categories" under "Space/Physics" of a publication calling itself "LiveScience", you know you're in for a treat.
Outlets like this existed back in the print media days as well and are not reflective of journalism as whole. It's basically the pop-sci version of the yellow press.
> Tonjie has added that his team is planning to take repeat observations of the strange signals to conclusively rule out any radio interference and obtain as much information about them as possible.