After work, I had Zoe cross reference the LAF’s locked-on position with know terrestrial sources.\u00a0 She said it was a waste of time – though I couldn’t see why.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I continued to scan through the logs.\u00a0 So far, the pattern simply continues – 42 waves, 42 silences.\u00a0 This effort was going too slow, so tonight I just wrote a small application to systematically search the remaining logs and detect if this pattern ever varies.\u00a0 It is probably not a good use of my time, but hey.<\/p>\n
The real interesting news is that Zoe confirmed that the signal was unlikely from a published terrestrial emitter.\u00a0 I asked here how she knew this.\u00a0 “Easy !”, she explained, “The log continuously shows each position adjustment “God’s Ear” made after lock-on last night.\u00a0 Based on these adjustments, it’s easy to tell the movement of what it was tracking with respect to our position.\u00a0 If it were an airborne platform, it could be either moving or stationary.\u00a0 If it was a stationary platform, the dish wouldn’t have moved – but it did.\u00a0 If it was tracking a non-stationary airborne platform, the LAF position would change, but not in the same way as it would if it were tracking a distant object in space.\u00a0 In fact, the way the LAF was tracking, it was basically compensating for the Earth’s rotation.\u00a0 This means that whatever it was tracking was either very far away, or local… but moving in a path with ridiculously significant coincidence with the Earth’s rotation.\u00a0 I’m betting on the former.”<\/p>\n
Well, I’m done with the simple search application, and I’m kicking it off as I type this.\u00a0 We’ll see if it turns up anything tomorrow.\u00a0 Either way, I can’t think of anything terrestrial or celestial that would emit such a meaningless signal, so I’m curious about what the LAF found.\u00a0 At this point, though, I can’t help but think that I’m getting sidetracked.\u00a0 Maybe I should just ignore this signal and keep searching for something more interesting?\u00a0 Or, maybe I should just go to sleep and worry about this tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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