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BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima

by ganonm on 12/23/20, 11:59 PM with 7 comments

• by ianai on 12/24/20, 3:16 AM

  Look, I logically understand the philosophy of “it’s never aliens until it absolutely is aliens.” And maybe this is just me. But the way researchers take to implement it completely guts the topic in some way. It feels like extreme to the point of derangement or something. Science might be doing harm to itself.

• by jgalt212 on 12/24/20, 2:52 AM

  Did the aliens destroy Arecibo just as we were catching on to them?

• by dogma1138 on 12/24/20, 5:19 AM

  Who had aliens for December in the 2020 bingo?

• by emerged on 12/24/20, 3:48 AM

  In software we call this a bug. Just need the following unit test:

  ASSERT(!find_aliens())

  And follow the stack trace(s) to eliminate the bug.