On 3 April 2015 at 12:37, David VanHorn <microbrix@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the radiation might be an issue still.
>
> I am starting to seriously hope that life "not of this world" may be
> discovered in my time.
>
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153.600-is-this-et-mystery-of-=
strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html
>
> This one is intriguing, but not likely a signal of life.  I would guess a
> statistical anomaly or measurement problem.
>

In the tradition of LGM-1 :-)

             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21

"
*PSR B1919+21* is a pulsar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar> with a
period of 1.3373 seconds,[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21#cite_note-Arzoumanian1994-2> a=
nd
a pulse width of 0.04 second. It was the first radio pulsar discovered (on
November 28, 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell> and Antony Hewish
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hewish>).[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21#cite_note-edn-3> The power and
regularity of the signals was thought to resemble a beacon
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon>, so for a time the source was
nicknamed "LGM-1" (for "Little Green Men
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men>").
"


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