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Link to actual paper (preprint, that is): https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148 https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148

• koheripbal 5y ago
  fyi, Preliminary result is that they didn't find anything. It's funny how movies always show a telescope operator falling asleep listening to deep space as if that's what he does every day and every night.... ... and then the reality of these papers showing that SETI does very brief checks for a handful of hours (11hrs in this case) maybe once per year, and only looking in one direction, and only at a narrow frequency band.
  • aksss 5y ago
    I think that trope is often of “the earnest researcher” who has so much hope and faith that he/she does it in their spare time. So rather than a job to listen, it’s their hobby to listen. I love it, because the silly fantastic odds of the system finding anything, much less of that thing showing up while a person happens to have the headphones on and not be distracted, are just Indiana Jones level entertaining to me. I’ll buy in every time. :D
    • podiki 5y ago
      These days I imagine it would be getting an email alert from the analysis system. Or maybe more realistically the unveil of the true result after doing blind analysis on both junk and real data, not sure what is what (as is becoming common in some areas of physics, to help prevent biases seeping in). Still some drama to be had :-)