The non-Proxima Centauri Signal and why SETI Needs Shutting Down

  Far be it for me to say "its odd" but I'm waiting to see the paper because either the original source DELIBERATELY gave misleading information or things are not adding up.

This also shows that despite all the claims that "we" (the free meal for lifers at SETI) would not be detecting signals left, right and centre if aliens were out there we wouldn't; this is Science trying to pretend it KNOWS when it clearly does not. "Put your trust in Svcience and we'll get the answers" is a good catchphrase until you look at the record of how many of those involved in astronomy and SETI at high levels are terrified at the prospect -look at the reaction in this case before the details were known. Go and check for yourself the very public statement that "It is never ever aliens" by SETI 'experts' and astronomers.

What makes me suspicious is that Seth ("Pant pooper if its Aliens") Shostak went around telling everyone that is was "highly probable -though I've seen none of the data" that this was terrestrial interference. Not seen any of the data but then again it will NEVER be aliens because if it was Shostak would have to hide under his bed. What a man to be involved in SETI -a man who is terrified of FINDING ETI!

This is why SETI should be handled by the people who can finance it as well as handle the possibility that alien life might exist (see any one of my books regarding this). A cluster of mini broadcaster-receiver satellites aliong the lines of Starlink sent off in different directions in the solar system might achieve more than Earth based facilities which, they keep jumping up and telling us, cannot tell the difference between someone warming up a cup of coffee in a microwave oven and a possible extra terrestrial signal.

Slash the SETI budget and the free mealers and get people who are willing to look and do more than sit on their asses.   Think of the billions of $ that would save. Can't tell a microwave from alien signal. DO NOT want to find alien signals or civilisation. Sounds like a big con.

At the time that the US Department of Defence release UFO photos (a Batman balloon) and talk about possible extraterrestrial threats you have to wonder what game people are playing.  Because Ufology and everyone else is being played.

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/e-t-signal-proxima-centauri-122802301.html

The $100 million Breakthrough Listen project is scanning the heavens for possible signals from alien civilizations.

News travels fast — at the lickety-split speed of light, potentially. Back in December, great attention was paid to a report that a mysterious radio signal appeared to have come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.

Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years from us, is known to host two planets. One of those two worlds, Proxima b, is slightly more massive than Earth and might be capable of supporting life as we know it.

The Breakthrough Listen project, part of the Breakthrough Initiatives group, made the recent detection using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, dubbing the signal BLC1 for "Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1."

Breakthrough Initiatives is backed by Yuri Milner, a science and technology investor and philanthropist who founded the organization. Its Breakthrough Listen activity is a $100 million program of astronomical observations and analysis, the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the search for evidence of technological civilizations in the universe.

Space.com recently talked with Breakthrough Initiatives executive director Simon Peter "Pete" Worden about BLC1 and the search for alien "technosignatures" more generally; the protocols for announcing an ET detection; and the latest about the prospects for life on Venus, another study effort being undertaken by Breakthrough Initiatives.

Spoiler alert: Don't be heartbroken in learning how tough "radio-waving" between civilizations truly is!