No matter how hard SETI has tried to detect ET radio signals, very few have been picked up and none have been verified as being of alien origin. Are we doing something wrong, or is nobody out there?
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SETI had been engaged in what most scientists have believed for years is an extremely unlikely quest to pick up intelligently generated signals from alien civilizations. The reason is that SETI has only be able to listen for very powerful signals that might be intentionally beamed toward earth. The chances of finding such signals have been thought to be so small as to be almost zero, because they require first that an ET civilization find us, second that they want to transmit to us, and third that we are listening when the signal arrives.
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A report appeared Thursday in the prestigious weeklymagazine of science, the New Scientist, suggesting that asignal acquired by the SETI project in February might beworth examining for possible intelligent origin. This reportis now being described by some SETI scientists as “internet hype.”
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In his new journal,Whitley writes: “It’s such an eerie time right now. Theweather is changing radically before our eyes, with sixteentyphoons in the Pacific this year and powerful hurricanesstill forming, with extraordinary environmental changes thatsuggest that the planet’s natural system is in the processof a profound breakdown, and far faster than anybodyimagine.read more