1 it's never Aliens
2 Pina Colada is a terrible choice (caugh gin tonic caugh)

Given Jupiter is a good source of RF, could there be a jovian in orbit outside the Doppler sensitivity ??

If they need Arecibo antenna then it does not sound like a satellite , as other antennas could catch it. And with so many people investigating it , if it where a satellite we would know it by now. If they didnt say anything yet it means they are convinced that it comes from the star, but they are afraid to announce it without more certainty. It must be either an unknown phenomena or ET, not a satellite

"Broadband" means it's almost certainly not aliens. Communications channels are narrow-band in order to concentrate the energy; broadband would be wasteful.

@PowerMax, maybe they should drink margaritas. GnTs are nice but margaritas are more, shall we say, appropriate given the location. ;)

@Nik, unlikely to be an undiscovered planet; Ross 128 has been checked and doesn't show any of the signs.

@jav, don't forget something else along the same sightline.

@JS... Report clearly states, "a star just 11 light-years away"

So, if the signal came from that star, it is only 11 years old.

Obviously not intelligent life, cause one of the important rules defining intelligence, is to stay the hell away from this particular hell-hole.

One possibility could be that 'broadband' means consumer entertainment, sports and advertising? That of course would rule them out as intelligent...

Hmm, some sort of artificial satellite? Deliberately pinging us from that away? Perhaps there is some hope for Alien intelligence after all. Clever enough to lure us out in the wrong direction?

Plasma processes are misunderstood? Say it ain't so.
"Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory." Hannes Alfven

Plasma processes are misunderstood? Say it ain't so.
"Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory." Hannes Alfven

F***ing dick. That was from decades ago. Get up to speed, you idiot. Alfven is frigging dead. Has been for a long time. Yes? Get over it.

@nazi sympathizer and idiot pseudoscience cult peon cd

Plasma processes are misunderstood? Say it ain't so.

repeating a lie doesn't make it more true

so, if modern astrophysicists, working with plasma physicists and electrical engineers, are all wrong about plasma, then why do you:
1- keep quoting an out of date lie

2- use Alfven's quote and reply upon other engineers and plasma physicists? (even when you wrongly interpret the data)
considering they all learn the exact same thing, that would mean that all your idiot engineers who claim there is an electric sun in your cult are all wrong, per your own argument and admission!
LMFAO

3- not provide a better plasma physics laboratory?
you know... to publish these miracle plasma forces you seem to think exist that aren't known about by modern plasma physicists

you have never once been able to provide a refute to any plasma physics/astrophysics paper provided on this site

not once
ever

period
full stop

Myself? I prefer Glasma. A tasty hot soup of colorfully quarky incoherence.

F***ing dick. That was from decades ago. Get up to speed, you idiot. Alfven is frigging dead. Has been for a long time. Yes? Get over it.

Getting emotional again jonesdumb, maybe time to double up you meds.

jonesdav, Einstein's dead too. You usually have the best anti-EU comments. But a dead Alfven adds no value. You big baby!

jonesdav, Einstein's dead too. You usually have the best anti-EU comments. But a dead Alfven adds no value. You big baby!

Because, dumbass, the comment was made decades ago. We know far more about plasma today than Alfven ever did. So posting a comment from decades ago is an irrelevance. And Einstein was wrong about quantum.

you have never once been able to provide a refute to any plasma physics/astrophysics paper provided on this site

Because he is clueless about said subject. All he can do is head off to Dunderdolts or hollowscience to find cherry picked quotes from a long dead scientist.

Nutjob @cantthink69 now claims everything is "plasma" instead of "electricity." I suppose it's little baby steps.

One possibility could be that 'broadband' means consumer entertainment, sports and advertising?

Nawww, a series of such channels over a frequency range has to have "dead zones" at certain frequencies between the channels in order to segregate each channel; otherwise they'd interfere with each other. Since radio astronomers look for spectral lines, they'd spot this right away, and since it's true both of radio and television signals, they wouldn't be fooled.

On a side note, I gave you a 5; you were obviously playing around, and I don't think that deserves 1s. Be cool, folks; give a bit of leeway for humor. Try not to become the physorg police.

And what we're "seeing" (hearing in this case) is hundreds of thousands of years in the past, counting in earth years.

@JS... Report clearly states, "a star just 11 light-years away"

So, if the signal came from that star, it is only 11 years old.

I dunno, man...given how long some shows get reruns...

jonesdav, your anger shows you lose a lot.