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For years SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has been analyzing data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in search of extraterrestrial signals. But Arecibo cannot see the entire sky.
Earlier this year SETI was able to use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to expand the search to include the nearly 100 potentially habitable planets found by the Kepler Mission. The analysis of all this new data has barely begun, but already a very complex signal has been found. Its quick discovery is credited to a new search algorithm recently added to the SETI@home application. This new algorithm, called autocorrelation, is highly sensitive to certain broad band or spread spectrum transmissions without predicting their characteristics beforehand. No SETI sky survey has utilized this type of algorithm before.
The signal apparently originates from one of the recently discovered planets orbiting a nearby star (Kepler-10c in the Draco constellation). Within mere hours, several additional radio telescopes were trained on the star and they have also picked up the alien signal. Data recording is now ongoing. Over 42 terabytes of data have been received thus far.
A large team of analysts has been hastily convened to begin the process of decoding. It was immediately obvious that there is a great deal of intricate structure to the signal, so the team has split up into smaller squads to analyze portions of the data stream. Of course there already is controversy emerging about the possible meaning behind any and all of it. A popular conjecture is that the entire data stream might be an encyclopedia of sorts. SETI, with the help of UC Berkeley, plans to post all of the data on the internet to allow wide distribution and analysis.
Analyst Votolom Valsechavy has focused in on a particular stretch of the signal that he is convinced is actually a recording of what he terms "alien music". With a large amount of interpretation and guesswork, Valsechavy has converted this part of the raw signal into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). The many problems of what tempo is to be used, and what instruments should play which tracks are currently unsolved, but here is his first attempt at realizing what this new alien music might possibly sound like.
http://www.macjams.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=22&showtopic=245206
For years SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has been analyzing data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in search of extraterrestrial signals. But Arecibo cannot see the entire sky.
Earlier this year SETI was able to use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to expand the search to include the nearly 100 potentially habitable planets found by the Kepler Mission. The analysis of all this new data has barely begun, but already a very complex signal has been found. Its quick discovery is credited to a new search algorithm recently added to the SETI@home application. This new algorithm, called autocorrelation, is highly sensitive to certain broad band or spread spectrum transmissions without predicting their characteristics beforehand. No SETI sky survey has utilized this type of algorithm before.
The signal apparently originates from one of the recently discovered planets orbiting a nearby star (Kepler-10c in the Draco constellation). Within mere hours, several additional radio telescopes were trained on the star and they have also picked up the alien signal. Data recording is now ongoing. Over 42 terabytes of data have been received thus far.
A large team of analysts has been hastily convened to begin the process of decoding. It was immediately obvious that there is a great deal of intricate structure to the signal, so the team has split up into smaller squads to analyze portions of the data stream. Of course there already is controversy emerging about the possible meaning behind any and all of it. A popular conjecture is that the entire data stream might be an encyclopedia of sorts. SETI, with the help of UC Berkeley, plans to post all of the data on the internet to allow wide distribution and analysis.
Analyst Votolom Valsechavy has focused in on a particular stretch of the signal that he is convinced is actually a recording of what he terms "alien music". With a large amount of interpretation and guesswork, Valsechavy has converted this part of the raw signal into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). The many problems of what tempo is to be used, and what instruments should play which tracks are currently unsolved, but here is his first attempt at realizing what this new alien music might possibly sound like.
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Very cool take on this! Much enjoyed, triggered my imagination!