{"id":22803,"date":"2016-08-30T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:25:48","slug":"there-is-no-extraterrestrial-signal-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/there-is-no-extraterrestrial-signal-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no extraterrestrial signal from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think there are not abundant intelligent life forms wafting about the universe.  We would see things in our careful, highly accurate, detailed looking at a sampling of the universe. But, I suppose we&#8217;ve only been scanning with super amazing instruments for a few years, and only scanning a small fraction of the universe.  But certainly, in a decade or two we&#8217;ll be able to say that radio-communicative or emitting intelligent life is either out there somewhere, or not likely to be.  Absence of evidence will evolve into evidence for pessimism, at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we get these little quirks. And, the latest is a burst of radio-info that the experts on this all seem to be saying is not a thing, looks like lots of other things that are also not things, but one guy somewhere put out a press release so now everybody thinks it is a thing.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/08\/30\/setis-alien-signal-dont-get-too-excited\/\">Not a thing<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\/forum_thread.php?id=80193\">Nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think there are not abundant intelligent life forms wafting about the universe. We would see things in our careful, highly accurate, detailed looking at a sampling of the universe. But, I suppose we&#8217;ve only been scanning with super amazing instruments for a few years, and only scanning a small fraction of the universe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/there-is-no-extraterrestrial-signal-from-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is no extraterrestrial signal from space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191,2053,2054,2055],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5VN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}