For the last year or so, the SETI project has been following some unusual radio signals from a sector of space detected by the Arecibo observatory. Lately, while most of those signals have disappeared, one of them has become more pronounced.
Now, apparently there is a universal "Ahoy! mate" signal. Scientists poring over the SETI logs have matched the frequency of the signals to the aforementioned greeting. They feel that it is highly unusual for a natural phenomenon to repeatedly send such a signal.
Read more about SHGbo2+14a (now isn't that a cute name) at the Guardian.
Reports of this signal are "highly exaggerated" says SETI@Home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer. See the article here: http://planetary.org/news/2004/seti_signal_0902.html
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