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92 relations: Active SETI, Alphanumeric, Area 51, Arecibo message, Arecibo Observatory, Bandwidth (signal processing), Brian Dunning (author), Centimetre, Chi Sagittarii, Comet, Conspiracy theory, Continuous wave, Coordinated Universal Time, Cornell University, Declination, Delaware, Ohio, Die Welt, Dimensionless quantity, Discovery Channel, Discrete time and continuous time, Douglas Vakoch, Earth's rotation, Eastern Time Zone, Ecliptic, Electronic oscillator, Epoch (astronomy), Equatorial coordinate system, Extraterrestrial intelligence, Extraterrestrial life, Fast radio burst, Feed horn, Filk music, Frequency, Giuseppe Cocconi, Google Earth, Green Bank, West Virginia, H. Paul Shuch, Hashtag, HD 164595, Header (computing), Hertz, Hydrogen line, IBM 1130, Intensity (physics), Jean-Michel Jarre, KIC 8462852, Line printer, Local oscillator, Magnitude (astronomy), Messier 55, ..., Modulation, Moon landing conspiracy theories, Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory, Narrowband, National Geographic (U.S. TV channel), National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Scientist, NPR, Null result, Oak Ridge Observatory, Ohio Sky Survey, Ohio State University, Ohio State University Radio Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan University, Outer space, Peggy Seeger, Perkins Observatory, Philip Morrison, Probability, Radio wave, Right ascension, Robert H. Gray, Sagittarius (constellation), Sampling (signal processing), Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SHGb02+14a, Signal-to-noise ratio, Skeptical movement, Space (punctuation), Space debris, Subliminal stimuli, Super Bowl LI, Tau Sagittarii, The Astrophysical Journal, The X-Files, Twinkling, Twitter, Typographical error, University of Tasmania, Very Large Array, 266P/Christensen, 335P/Gibbs. Expand index (42 more) »
Active SETI
Active SETI (Active Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is the attempt to send messages to intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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Alphanumeric
Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits or a text constructed from this collection.
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Area 51
The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
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Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star cluster M13 in the hope that extraterrestrial intelligence might receive and decipher it.
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Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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Bandwidth (signal processing)
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.
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Brian Dunning (author)
Brian Andrew Dunning (born 1965) is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism.
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Centimetre
A centimetre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; symbol cm) or centimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of.
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Chi Sagittarii
The Bayer designation Chi Sagittarii (χ Sagittarii) is shared by three star systems in the zodiac constellation of Sagittarius.
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
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Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.
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Continuous wave
A continuous wave or continuous waveform (CW) is an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, almost always a sine wave, that for mathematical analysis is considered to be of infinite duration.
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Coordinated Universal Time
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Declination
In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle.
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Delaware, Ohio
Delaware is a city in and the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio, United States.
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Die Welt
Die Welt ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.
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Dimensionless quantity
In dimensional analysis, a dimensionless quantity is a quantity to which no physical dimension is assigned.
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Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.
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Discrete time and continuous time
In mathematics and in particular mathematical dynamics, discrete time and continuous time are two alternative frameworks within which to model variables that evolve over time.
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Douglas Vakoch
Douglas Vakoch (born June 16, 1961) is an American search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, psychologist, and president of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Earth's rotation
Earth's rotation is the rotation of Planet Earth around its own axis.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.
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Ecliptic
The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the Sun follows over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system.
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Electronic oscillator
An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave.
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Epoch (astronomy)
In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as the celestial coordinates or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, because these are subject to perturbations and vary with time.
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Equatorial coordinate system
The equatorial coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system widely used to specify the positions of celestial objects.
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Extraterrestrial intelligence
Extraterrestrial intelligence (often abbreviated ETI) refers to hypothetical intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").
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Fast radio burst
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin manifested as a transient radio pulse lasting a few milliseconds on average.
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Feed horn
In parabolic antennas such as satellite dishes, a feed horn (or feedhorn) is a small horn antenna used to convey radio waves between the transmitter and/or receiver and the parabolic reflector.
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Filk music
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy/horror fandom and a type of fan labor.
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Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
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Giuseppe Cocconi
Giuseppe Cocconi (1914–2008) was an Italian physicist who was director of the Proton Synchrotron at CERN in Geneva.
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Google Earth
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.
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Green Bank, West Virginia
Green Bank is a census-designated place in Pocahontas County in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands inside the Allegheny Mountain Range.
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H. Paul Shuch
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Hashtag
A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content; it allows easy, informal markup of folk taxonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language.
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HD 164595
HD 164595 is a G-type star located in the constellation of Hercules, from Earth that is notably similar to the Sun.
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Header (computing)
In information technology, header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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Hydrogen line
The hydrogen line, 21-centimeter line or H I line refers to the electromagnetic radiation spectral line that is created by a change in the energy state of neutral hydrogen atoms.
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IBM 1130
The IBM 1130 Computing System, introduced in 1965, was IBM's least expensive computer at that time.
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Intensity (physics)
In physics, intensity is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is measured on the plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the energy.
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Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.
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KIC 8462852
KIC 8462852 (also Tabby's Star or Boyajian's Star) is an F-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus approximately from Earth.
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Line printer
A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.
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Local oscillator
In electronics, a local oscillator (LO) is an electronic oscillator used with a mixer to change the frequency of a signal.
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Magnitude (astronomy)
In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object in a defined passband, often in the visible or infrared spectrum, but sometimes across all wavelengths.
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Messier 55
Messier 55 (also known as M55 or NGC 6809) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.
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Modulation
In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.
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Moon landing conspiracy theories
Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations.
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Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory
The Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory is a radio astronomy based observatory owned and operated by University of Tasmania, located 20 km east of Hobart in Cambridge, Tasmania.
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Narrowband
In radio, narrowband describes a channel in which the bandwidth of the message does not significantly exceed the channel's coherence bandwidth.
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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners, majority-owned by 21st Century Fox with the remainder owned by the National Geographic Society.
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the United States National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc for the purpose of radio astronomy.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Null result
In science, a null result is a result without the expected content: that is, the proposed result is absent.
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Oak Ridge Observatory
The Oak Ridge Observatory (ORO, code: 801), also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts.
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Ohio Sky Survey
The Ohio Sky Survey was an astronomical survey of extragalactic radio sources.
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Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.
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Ohio State University Radio Observatory
The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1963 to 1998.
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Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University (also known as Wesleyan or OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Peggy Seeger
Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger.
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Perkins Observatory
Perkins Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Delaware, Ohio.
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Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Probability
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.
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Radio wave
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light.
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Right ascension
Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol) is the angular distance measured only eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point above the earth in question.
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Robert H. Gray
Robert H. Gray is an American data analyst, author, and astronomer, and author of The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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Sagittarius (constellation)
Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac.
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Sampling (signal processing)
In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.
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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.
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SHGb02+14a
SHGb02+14a is an astronomical radio source and a candidate in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), discovered in March 2003 by SETI@home and announced in New Scientist on September 1, 2004.
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Signal-to-noise ratio
Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.
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Skeptical movement
The skeptical movement (also spelled sceptical) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism (also called rational skepticism).
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Space (punctuation)
In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters).
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Space debris
Space debris (also known as space junk, space waste, space trash, space litter or space garbage) is a term for the mass of defunct, artificially created objects in space, most notably in Earth orbit, such as old satellites and spent rocket stages.
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Subliminal stimuli
Subliminal stimuli (the prefix sup- literally "below, or less than", while the prefix sub- literally "up to"), contrary to supraliminal stimuli or "above threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception.
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Super Bowl LI
Super Bowl LI was an American football game played at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, February 5, 2017, to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2016 season.
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Tau Sagittarii
Tau Sagittarii (Tau Sgr, τ Sagittarii, τ Sgr) is a star in the southern zodiac constellation of Sagittarius.
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The Astrophysical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal, often abbreviated ApJ (pronounced "ap jay") in references and speech, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
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Twinkling
Twinkling, or scintillation, is a generic term for variations in apparent brightness or position of a distant luminous object viewed through a medium.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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Typographical error
A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called misprint, is a mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material.
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University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university primarily located in Tasmania, Australia.
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Very Large Array
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, ~50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro.
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266P/Christensen
266P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
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335P/Gibbs
335P/Gibbs is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
