News From A Distant Star

This report on CNN about a possible interstellar signal caught my attention, but then I saw this article on the BBC that appears to downplay the incident. How strange. Either the first article was a little too sensational or (and this is me indulging my inner conspiracy theorist) the scientific community is doing some serious double-checking before going public. In all likelihood, the signal isn’t artificial, which is a pity. It might be the one story that would be capable of distracting us from the Neverending Campaign Cycle. I can only imagine how Bush would react to such news. He would probably accuse the signal of being part of terrorist plot, terrestrial or otherwise, and put us on permanent Orange Alert.