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  • 01-04-2016 6:21pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭


    Finally we have proof that life exists on other worlds

    " A signal has been received by the giant Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory that proves beyond doubt we are not alone in the Universe.

    Following its initial detection with the Lovell Telescope, scientists at the observatory used their network of large telescopes across the UK to zoom in and identify the source of the signal as a little blue planet in the constellation of Iocus.

    Tim O’Brien, Professor of Astrophysics at Jodrell Bank, explains “In the last twenty years or so, more than a thousand planets have been found orbiting other stars like the Sun. But this new planet is very strange. It is small compared to most, much smaller than the Earth, and strangely blue.”

    When turned into a sound, most signals the radio telescopes receive are just a hiss. But when this observation was processed, it was discovered that hidden within the noise there is a sequence of images and sounds, including a series of clangs and an unusual whistling.

    Although the signal is extremely weak and so very fuzzy, the astronomers have been able to enhance it using techniques they normally apply to observations of distant galaxies and produce a video of the planet’s surface.

    Astoundingly, the pictures show this little blue planet is inhabited by what appears to be a family of mouse-like creatures. " (http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2016/LittleBluePlanet/#update)

    https://youtu.be/H5A0TC1hewY


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭fuerte1976


    You smoking something??

    Edit.... All your text appeared after I replied.. All I saw was the headline & blue mice link..


  • Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Needles73


    What date is today again ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    fuerte1976 wrote: »
    You smoking something??

    Edit.... All your text appeared after I replied.. All I saw was the headline & blue mice link..


    Sorry..found the text after the video :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Needles73 wrote: »
    What date is today again ?

    April 1, but as its come from a reputable source its believable:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Internet Ham


    The microwave again?


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    +1 for the Clangers

    Maybe the reason we can't find life is that they are doing this

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35938886
    We should shine lasers into space if we want to hide our presence from aliens, two US-based astronomers suggest.

    The beams could compensate for the dip in light the Earth creates when it passes in front of the Sun, as viewed from far-off worlds, they contend.
    ...

    But an alternative might be to use a laser simply to disguise the interesting aspects about Earth - features in its atmosphere that betray the fact that life exists here. These are a suite of gases that include oxygen, ozone and methane.

    "If we just cloaked out those biosignatures then another civilisation might detect our planet through a transit, everything would add up, but Earth would appear as a dead world and they'd soon lose interest," Prof Kipping added.


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