Well if the daily mail says so that’s good enough for me
Edit: Apparently I need an /s for this clown
me too!
Actually yes, the daily mail has zero credibility, a fluid relationship with reality at the best of times. A better source would be nice for a science community
a fluid relationship with reality at the best of times.
Which is what makes it fun to read. But I don’t think they invent things nearly as much as people assume.
I don’t trust any news organization to be one hundred percent accurate. Everything posted online should be approached with healthy skepticism.
Believing something entirely because it comes from a news source, or rejecting it entirely for the same reason, are both mistakes.
The daily mail is a tabloid that literally makes shit up for headlines, that isn’t hyperbole
I get what you’re saying, but I read it every day. I don’t see a lot of stuff just made up. It’s not like the good ole national enquirer days.
Most stuff is actually stolen from other news orgs, so not made up.
Now, unethical, yep! They are totally unethical! lolol They post suicide notes from mass shooters, manifestos and stuff, but I Iike them for that. I like seeing all the juicy stuff.
But they don’t make up nearly as much shit as people think they do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Reliability
I really can’t take it seriously, you do you, but a reasonable person who is interested in science would actually be incredulous that the daily mail is a source for a science discussion. It has no business in a science community, honestly, unless your trying to troll people.
Meh, it’s science-y enough for me. They didn’t say anything factually wrong in the article. And when they say stuff like, “Scientist says object may be extraterrestrial…” or shit like that. The scientist does say that, as in they haven’t ruled it out. The article mentions that it’s probably just natural radio-noise from celestial events.
Clickbait headlines on articles is way different than saying that they actually make up everything.
I don’t think there is anything made up:
Lead author Professor Abel Mendez, of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, told Daily Mail: ‘We can’t rule out an extraterrestrial communication signal explanation for the Wow! Signal yet, but the evidence points to a natural origin.’
I think it’s an accurate article.
Dr Hector Socas-Navarro says: ‘The paper basically rewrites the basic stats of the Wow! signal.’
In addition to showing that the signal had been stronger than previously thought, the researchers have been able to characterise the burst much more accurately.
They narrowed the part of the sky that the signal came from to two small regions, each of which produced a different component of the signal.
The researchers were also able to determine this location with two-thirds greater statistical certainty.
Additionally, this new data slightly revises the signal’s frequency – putting it at 1420.726 MHz rather than 1420.4556 MHz.
That keeps the signal solidly within the hydrogen line, but that small change suggests that whatever produced the signal must have been spinning a lot faster than previously thought.
This means the source must be moving at about 46 miles per second (74 km/s), over double the previous estimate of 18 miles per second (30 km/s/).
Importantly, this research also rules out some natural phenomena that had been suggested as possible explanations.
It had been proposed that a man-made signal could have bounced off the moon and been mistakenly picked up by the observatory.
However, this new analysis clearly shows that the moon would have been on the wrong side of the planet at this time, so nothing could have bounced off it.
Likewise, the sun was not active enough during the year 1977 to produce anything close to the Wow! signal’s intensity.
That means the Wow! signal really must have come from somewhere outside our solar system.
However, there are still many questions remaining about the origins of this mysterious radio beam.
