Mystery 'noise' could be an Earth-like world:

[rdunk]

Strange signals suggest habitable planet exists 22 light years away. Astronomers
believe mysterious signals - previously dismissed as stellar bursts - are coming from an Earth-like planet.

Statements like this tend to cause us to take notice. Such findings may very well continue to increase, as our outward "look" continues to expand and improve in technique!! "We ain't see nuthin yet"!!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2983202/Alien-noise-Earth-like-world-Mystery-signals-suggest-habitable-planet-exists-22-light-years-away.html#ixzz3TgF5WwrW

[zorgon]

We have sent messages to Gliese 581  They left 5 years ago  Site is down at the moment but its still on Wayback Machine

Hello From Earth

In the meantime scientists are debating whether its wise to send messages

[adomaniac]

A very heavy amount of this is pure speculation, though. The planet could have an atmosphere, oceans, and be in the goldilocks zone, and yet still be every bit as uninhabitable as Venus. It's exciting to find, but these article titles are getting ridiculous in their sensationalism.

[rdunk]

A very heavy amount of this is pure speculation, though. The planet could have an atmosphere, oceans, and be in the goldilocks zone, and yet still be every bit as uninhabitable as Venus. It's exciting to find, but these article titles are getting ridiculous in their sensationalism.

Yes adomaniac, that is pretty much par for the course in discussion of most subjects beyond low-Earth orbit?

We really don't even know "beans" about the Moon of our Earth yet, and here we (the article) are making guesses about what may or may not be taking place on a planet about 132 trillion miles from Earth. Of course, man's ancestors were making similar guesses back in the day about many of Earth's unknowns, including its absolute flatness and including how the sun revolved around the Earth. About the only thing that has changed is the tools which support man's guessing have gotten much more refined, not withstanding the fact that man's guesses may not be any more accurate today, in many cases, than they were way way back when!!

[zorgon]

A very heavy amount of this is pure speculation, though.

Speculation is what Hu-mons do when they don't have all the facts. Speculation and followup is what we do here.

Many times since Pegasus started we have 'speculated' on many topic, Water on the Moon,Mars; Secret Astronauts, Secret Spaceships and other topics..  Many times we have been proven right because we have many people in the wings that have insider knowledge.  Gives us a little edge, a little advance notice before it becomes common knowledge

So... get used to it

The planet could have an atmosphere, oceans, and be in the goldilocks zone, and yet still be every bit as uninhabitable as Venus.

And Venus could be inhabited too I mean how else do you account for these contrails on a clear Venusian day?

It's exciting to find, but these article titles are getting ridiculous in their sensationalism.

Back at ATS many people said this (usually the skeptics )  So I did a test

I did one thread that was serious,  title was Evidence for Fossils on Mars. The thread had a ton of solid info, won over 7 applauases from the mods and many points... yet in the first two days it only got a couple pages of response  and most of those were "Great post" type  Nothing to debunk, nothing to add  thread dies

At the same time I did two threads with a sensation title both accompanied with an appropriate (and real) image.  Those two threads got over 15 pages of response each in the first two days,,,


So  point is  Sensational titles attract people...  simple as that

So  how about instead of worrying the title, focus on the content