Scientists Say We're Likely Receiving Messages From AliensSo, we may be receiving messages from aliens, right now, according to a new scientific hypothesis,
reports The Independent. "A new analysis of strange modulations in a tiny set of stars appears to indicate that it could be coming from extraterrestrial intelligence that is looking to alert us to their existence."
The study reports that "specific modulations" in only 234 stars, out of the 2.5 million studied, were found, and that a small fraction of such stars were reportedly "behaving strangely" without any explanation, leaving scientists to believe the "messages" are from aliens.
“We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an [extraterrestrial intelligence] signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis,” write scientists EF Borra and E Trottier. “The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis."
Such research has been published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, titled "Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars."
Of course, although the scientists have come to such an hypothesis, they are clear that, currently, they cannot confirm nor deny with certainty if the messages are indeed from aliens. Scientists say they are working to discredit all other possible explanations to bring their assumption more credibility.
Breakthrough Listen, an initiative founded in 2016 to find alien life, says that the hypothesis is "promising," while acknowledging that more work must to done to prove the messages originated from extraterrestrial beings.
“The one in 10,000 objects with unusual spectra seen by Borra and Trottier are certainly worthy of additional study,” says Breakthrough Listen's statement. “However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
The statement continues: “It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations. Internationally agreed-upon protocols for searches for evidence of advanced life beyond Earth (SETI) require candidates to be confirmed by independent groups using their own telescopes, and for all natural explanations to be exhausted before invoking extraterrestrial agents as an explanation.
“Careful work must be undertaken to determine false positive rates, to rule out natural and instrumental explanations, and most importantly, to confirm detection using two or more independent telescopes," concludes the statement.
After tedious careful deciphering of the signal scientists were able to unscramble this curious alien message:
Send more p0rn. ;)
