{"id":23183,"date":"2016-08-30T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Theyre-not-saying-its-aliens-but-signal-traced-to-sunlike-star-sparks-SETI-interest"},"modified":"2016-08-30T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:09:13","slug":"theyre-not-saying-its-aliens-but-signal-traced-to-sunlike-star-sparks-seti-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/30\/theyre-not-saying-its-aliens-but-signal-traced-to-sunlike-star-sparks-seti-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re not saying it\u2019s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by SETI Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re not saying it\u2019s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., weighed in on HD 164595 in an email to GeekWire:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a bit of a puzzling story, as the Russians found this signal a year ago or so, but just didn\u2019t let others know. That\u2019s not good policy, as what you really want is confirmation at another telescope, but\u2026 Is it real?  The signal may be real, but I suspect it\u2019s not ET.  There are other possibilities for a wide-band signal such as this, and they\u2019re caused by natural sources (or even terrestrial interference).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI just did a quick calculation of how much wattage they\u2019d need to wield from 94 light-years (I think that\u2019s the distance) in order to produce the apparently received signal, and that would be a big utility bill, even if they were directing the transmission (as opposed to broadcasting equally in all directions).  It\u2019s also the case that the known planet around the star is in an awfully tight orbit, which means it\u2019s probably a place that\u2019s hotter than Seattle\u2019s best restaurant.  Of course, there could be other planets there \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, not too much to say so far.  However, we\u2019re looking at this object with the Allen (not Alan) Telescope Array as I speak to you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/buff.ly\/2c300e3\">http:\/\/buff.ly\/2c300e3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/signal-seti-interest-hd164595\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/signal-seti-interest-hd164595\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        They\u2019re not saying it\u2019s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/30\/theyre-not-saying-its-aliens-but-signal-traced-to-sunlike-star-sparks-seti-interest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}