｢ The experiment involved bouncing radio signals off the surface of Venus to transmit the following words using Morse code: Lenin, USSR and mir, which in Russian means both world and peace. Even though statistically increasing radio interference risk, this message was mainly symbolic. The Soviet Union wanted to depict its technological might and wasn’t expecting to communicate with extraterrestrials. Soviet SETI was thus not yet a real pursuit ｣

https://theconversation.com/setis-noahs-ark-a-space-historian-explores-how-the-advent-of-radio-astronomy-led-to-the-ussrs-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-262402

#seti #USSR #coldwar

Yet to find an article on our white paper for NASA on the work needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible discovery of life beyond earth that doesn’t lead with: “aliens!!!”

But, I guess that’s part of the course…

It was extremely interesting to author this paper with such a varied group of researchers at the @setihub. An honour and a pleasure to work with such curious and generous colleagues.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2025/09/13/previous-preparation-for-alien-contact-is-outdated-study-says/86105519007/ #SETI #post-detection #astrobiology #nasa

Heliophysicist and science communicator Dr. Becca Robinson is a “curious and driven researcher” who has worked on projects worldwide, from drilling ice cores on Icelandic glaciers to analyzing solar MHD simulations.

#Heliophysics#Space#Science#SETI#NotJustAliens

Update. Here's a great example of reusing older #data, this time for the original purpose. Scientists retrieved unpublished data from the 1977 "Wow!" signal captured by the #Arecibo radio telescope as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (#SETI), reanalyzed it with modern tools, and improved our understanding of where it came from and what might have caused it.

* primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657

* summary
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wow-stronger-thought.html

#Reuse

Update. Here's a great example of reusing older #data, this time for the original purpose. Scientists retrieved unpublished data from the 1977 "Wow!" signal captured by the #Arecibo radio telescope as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (#SETI), reanalyzed it with modern tools, and improved our understanding of where it came from and what might have caused it.

* primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657

* summary
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wow-stronger-thought.html

#Reuse

Here is an #Introduction. My current project is about #emergentBehavior in #animalNetworks. I also study consequences of #climateChange. I often wonder how to explain basic concepts of #ecology and #statistics to students. What else: #consciousness (with #panPsychic bias), #seti and #youWouldntLikeToKnow

<https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/opinion_column_starlink_interference/>

# Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind?

## Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy

"Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.

"It loves photobombing astronomy photographs, as the satellites drift across fields of view that were intended to snap distant starlight. But for its latest trick, it's humming loudly over the faintest whispers from the dawn of the universe. …"

#Starlink#SpaceX#SETI