SETI public: How Can Humanity Decode ETI Transmissions?

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* How Can Humanity Decode Alien Transmissions

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_artificiality_part3_030327.html

Sorting deliberate signals from a gush of cosmic static requires discernment. It's somewhat akin to beachcombing: finding the occasional bauble on a shoreline littered with dead seaweed, desiccated crustaceans, and other unappealing, sea-borne dross.

* Hubble Chronicles Mysterious Outburst with 'Eye-Popping' Pictures
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/light_echo_030326.html

An eruptive star that brightened to 600,000 times its initial intensity and briefly outshone all others in the Milky Way Galaxy has astronomers amazed and puzzled over what happened.

* Black Holes Blow Matter into Space with Tremendous Wind, Study Finds
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_seeds_030326.html

Astronomers know that black holes spit energy back into space as they voraciously consume matter in a process that is not entirely efficient. Now it seems they propel matter outward, too, in a wind to end all winds.

* Astronotes: SPACE.com Mailbag -- Why Don't Black Holes Simply Consume Everything?
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Jim writes: Dear Mr. Britt: I read your article on SPACE.com, "Scientists guess at Black Holes Weight" and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me: If black holes have been around since early in the formation of the Universe, why hasn't all or most all matter been consumed by black holes?

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