[achtung]

http://www.ktvu.com/news/15054540/detail.html

It's also referenced in the UC Berkeley News:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/in_news/archives/20080115.shtml

So, thoughts?

[Snail]

Emerging civilization, huh? Let's stockpile some nukes.

[redsniper]

I want this to be real, but I'm going to assume it isn't.

[Snail]

I want this to be real, but I'm going to assume it isn't.

Same.

That's why we should stockpile on nukes, just to be safe.

[achtung]

I want this to be real, but I'm going to assume it isn't.

Yeah. 

[Snail]

Yeah. 

Assuming it is real we should stockpile on nukes.

[Bobboau]

ok, I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about the first link breifly mentions 'word' of an alien signal, then goes on to talk about hypotheticals. the second link is absolutely unrelated. and then I used google news to hunt down information, and all I found was the arecebo telescope recently got upgraded, so what is the story?

[jdjtcagle]

10,000 huh? 

Alien Signal?  I guess it's there job to be a little biased and imaginative

I mean they don't speculate what it is but rather who...

[achtung]

ok, I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about the first link breifly mentions 'word' of an alien signal, then goes on to talk about hypotheticals. the second link is absolutely unrelated. and then I used google news to hunt down information, and all I found was the arecebo telescope recently got upgraded, so what is the story?

Scroll down on the second link.

[Polpolion]

I want this to be real, but I'm going to assume it isn't.

Same.

That's why we should stockpile on nukes, just to be safe.

lol.

[karajorma]

Scroll down on the second link.

I did. All the way to the story about Mythbusters. Didn't see anything at all related.

It's probably this interpreted by someone who knows nothing about science.

[achtung]

Scroll down on the second link.

I did. All the way to the story about Mythbusters. Didn't see anything at all related.

It's probably this interpreted by someone who knows nothing about science.

Number 4 on the list.

Also, yeah, you're probably right.

[karajorma]

Evidently one of us is seeing a cached page or something. I got this.

4. Genomics sizes up
China launches large-scale human sequencing initiative.
Nature
Jane Qiu & Erika Check Hayden

January 16, 2008

Next-generation human genomics has arrived. The first large-scale whole-genome sequencing project has now begun in China, and an international multi-genome sequencing programme is hot on its heels.

The Yanhuang Project, which will sequence the entire genomes of 100 Chinese individuals over 3 years was announced by the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) on 8 January. Ye Jia, a spokeswoman for the project, said that once it is completed, the BGI aims to sequence the genomes of thousands more people, including ethnic groups from other Asian countries....

Whole-genome sequencing studies are expected to deepen our scientific understanding of populations such as the Chinese, whose genetics have not been studied in great detail. The findings will inform medical research specific to those populations, and improve our understanding of human history, says RASMUS NIELSEN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. “One of the exciting things about having so many sequences from Chinese individuals is that we will be able to say how much genetic exchange there has been between continents since [early humans migrated] out of Africa. That's been very hotly debated.”...

[achtung]

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/in_news/archives/20080115.shtml

Try that one, it's for the 15th.

I guess they decided to update as I posted this. 

[karajorma]

I tend to be very sceptical of anyone using numbers derived from the Drake Equation as it's fundamentally flawed idea to use an equation where you're pulling the numbers out of your arse.

As a discussion tool the equation is sound. But to actually claim that you can sensibly estimate the average length of time a technologically advanced alien race is able to communicate over interstellar distances before we've even found one is idiotic.

[achtung]

Yep, misinterpretation.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=44764&nowrap=true#700629

Carry on.

[IceFire]

Sounds like some sort of cool astronomical event that will have those deeply interested in the subject talking for quite a while...but nothing about some sort of signal from aliens.

[redsniper]

Damn.

[Mefustae]

Damn.

Well, there's a 80% chance or so that they'd be hostile, anyway. And if not, then you can be dollars to donuts that we'd be the aggressors. Survival of the fittest, doesn't matter whether it's on the savannah or in space.

[redsniper]

Well, there's a 80% chance or so that they'd be hostile...

and how is that calculated?