SETI Picks Up Regular Laser Pulse Emanating From Space

This story is pretty old. Any word on an update?

We are being sighted-in!

I read in a book on laser design about naturally occuring lasers that aren't phased but are of a single wavelength of em energy emitted by stars. given other repeating phenomenae that might interfere with such emissions, it's still plausible that this is a a natural phenomenon. However, I will watch this story with interest

This is excellent! Wow, I'm so excited to hear updates on this, it really is compelling to think about such a signal.

Jac1992....Don't you believe it, Global warming starts at Pennsylvania Ave. in Wash. D.C. Those Laser Beams are to prevent this earth BS from reaching into deep space.

Scientist: "We're picking up a signal."

Scientist 2: "My god, what does it says??"

Scientist: "... It says Lady Gaga has a Penis."

IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!!!

We must be very careful! It may be the zigon's scarasan control!

Let me just say that if our alien neighbors do arrive, I will go out of my way to give constant crap to all the arrogant, non-believers who were convinced that we were alone in this vast universe, and insisted on putting down those who actually tried to think for themselves rather than going along with the masses.

On a side note, if aliens do come to our planet a lot of religious people are going to think it is some kind of trick. My family is very religious and I know that if aliens showed themselves, they would think it was one of the "fake saviors" that the Bible talks about coming in the "end times". I don't know what they would do.

its probably the breaking ion thrusters of an invasion force finally come to cull its delicious and tender vittles

ahh! Their attacking us with lasers!!! That must be the real cause of global warming!!1

This just in...the laser burst signal has been decyphered ...translation coming through...omg! It reads as follows....Earth I'm happy for you and Imma let you finish but ET had the best extraterrestrial communication of all time....(wtf?!)

I'm just going to throw this out there as a forewarning, let's try our best, and not be assholes to the aliens. I mean, it's the least we can do. If they're lame, we'll just blow them off, but let's do our best, and not be dicks.

AMAZING!!! This is stupid EXCITING!!! Even if it's only another unknown physical phenomenon, that would still be overtly awesome.

SETI's fundamental mistake has been to assume that any advanced civilization on other planets must use radio waves, presuming that their technology mirrors our own.

The tribbles are coming!

I wish Carl Sagan were around for this . Can we send one back ? More info please !

what does stephen hawkings think of this i wonder? what are the odds?

interesting, but are there any more recent developments?

Pretty frikken awesome! PLEASE keep us updated on his research?

Big fat furry creature from Mars!

Interesting possibilities abound with this.

They are out there!

Sorry, I left it on, my bad.

Pretty soon we will be playing inter-universal games on computer's with the aliens? Just kidding, it's a interesting thought that we could be able to communicate with them soon.

Certain phenomenon in space issue a regular pattern of radio or light energy. Pulsars, quasars and a lot of binary stars.

There is no reason to believe that another intelligent life form has any semblance to us, nor should they be expected to use the electromagnetic spectrum for communications. As a matter of fact we are probably considered prehistoric and antiquated, mostly because we are controlled by government rules. Laser could also be used as a guidance system and not necessarily as a communications searching for other intelligences, then again these pulses could be emaninating from an object that is naturally sending out linear laser pulses. To look for ET's in space one must also think like an ET and that is intellectually over and above what we would expect to find.

This is awesome!

Searching for laser communications is very odd, as it would require the civilization sending out the messages to be doing so as a beacon, very deliberately. Lasers, unlike radio communications, do not emanate in all directions, and must be aimed at their intended target. If you search for laser communications you have to have the expectation that the extraterrestrial life wants to reach us, which is especially odd since SETI is not transmitting signals, only looking to receive them.