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Mom —

Perhaps aliens have produced their own compressed version of the "I Love Lucy" show and they are sending it to us, gratis, for our enjoyment. Please keep me posted, if it turns out to be a cooking show (A 'La Julia Child), you know how I am...always looking for new recipes with exotic ingredients. If it turns out that the aliens are hostile, I hope they have been viewing the "Mr. Ed" show, talking horses are enough to frighten anything away.
Love from Mom :~)

Eric —

LOL, Mom :-).

Eric —

I found this on Slashdot...

Titled From the horse's and apparently from the SETI scientist I've quoted above by way of New Scientist.

"Unfortunately, reporters, editors and scientists often work at cross purposes. Reporters want to sell stories, editors want to sell magazines, and scientists want the public to hear about their research. When the science won't sell the story, there is often some creative writing that goes on.

"That said, I was both misquoted and quoted out of context in the New Scientist article. The crux of the issue is that there really isn't much chance that the 'signal' is actually extraterrestrial or even real. The point I was trying to make to the 'New Scientist' reporter was that the combination of a stable frequency between observation and the rapidly changing frequency during an observation meant that it was unlikely that it was real, and that it was likely to be a spurious signal due to noise or interference. I reiterated that several times.

"I don't know how that got misinterpreted to the point where the article claims I said the signal was unlikely to be interference or noise.

"We don't have any plans for reobservation or monitoring, and I'd give 1000:1 odds that there's nothing there."

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