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35 years later, earth finally returns ET’s phone call

ust after 11 pm on August 15, 1977, while pointing toward the constellation Sagittarius, Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope picked up a mysterious transmission that would very soon make history.
For 72 seconds, the Big Ear was able to listen to that signal, which has since come to be known as the ‘Wow! Signal’ for the excited notation made on a printout of the data by Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who discovered it.
Wow! Signal
The Wow! Signal
“Several pages into the computer printout I was astonished to see the string of numbers and characters ‘6EQUJ5′ in channel 2 of the printout,” Ehman recalled in a retrospective look at the event written in 1997. “I immediately recognised this as the pattern we would expect to see from a narrow band radio source of small angular diameter in the sky.”
In other words, the transmission looked a lot like a signal from outer space probably would, and it’s since been the focus of considerable attention in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
A Reply Is Sent
Since the arrival of the “Wow!” Signal, there’s never been another discovery quite like it, despite repeated attempts to find something similar in the same stretch of sky. Until recently, there had also been no official ‘reply’ sent to what many hoped was, in fact, a message from intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Last Wednesday, however — the day of the 35th anniversary of the event — National Geographic’s ‘Chasing UFOs’ series and the giant Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico sent off a reply to the Wow! Signal consisting of digitised versions of viewers’ contributed tweets along with videos from celebrities including Stephen Colbert, Miss Universe and others.
Is this the beginning of our first real conversation with E.T.? Well, let’s just say the odds are against it.
‘More Publicity Than It Merits’
“The Wow! Signal that was received 35 years ago was one of the most discussed signals discovered by any SETI system,” Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition with the SETI Institute, told TechNewsWorld.
At the same time, “I think it’s gotten more publicity than its scientific value merits,” Vakoch said. “It’s very similar to the sorts of signals that SETI programs around world receive all the time.”
Specifically, signals from other, less-exciting sources such as terrestrial transmitters and spacecraft in orbit around Earth, for example, are common and yet are not always easy to distinguish, he noted.
‘A Lot Has Changed in SETI’
The challenge is to weed out the false signals, Vakoch explained, and over the years the methods for doing so have become more stringent.
“In the past 35 years a lot has changed in SETI,” he said.
In the SETI Institute’s own searches from Northern California, for example, the goal is to be able to follow up on intriguing signals within 90 seconds, Vakoch said. “What we can then do is say, ‘OK, we’re getting the signal on this antenna, but not as strongly as on this one.”
Then, the group tries to determine if the signal could be coming from Earth instead.
‘One Cannot Draw Any Conclusions’
The fact that the Wow! Signal was never heard again is also problematic.
“The so-called ‘Wow! Signal’ is an example of worthless (so far) scientific data for the following reasons,” Scott Austin, associate professor of astronomy and director of the astronomical facilities at the University of Central Arkansas, told TechNewsWorld.
“First, the signal was not detected simultaneously at any other facility,” Austin explained. “Therefore, one cannot rule out that it was a local terrestrial signal or some sort of glitch in the system.
“Second, there has not been any repeat of that sort of event while observing that part of the sky,” he added. “Using the scientific method, one cannot draw any conclusions from the ‘Wow!’ event.”
‘Very Little Chance’
Last week’s transmission was directed at three different stars, chosen because of their similarities to our sun, National Geographic said, including Hipparcos 34511, which is 150 light years away; Hipparcos 33277, which is 57 light years away; and Hipparcos 43587, which is only 41 light years away.
The latter, in fact, is of particular interest because it’s “known to have planets, including some thought to reside in a ‘habitable zone’ for life as we know it,” National Geographic explained. As the closest of the three, any intelligent life potentially there would also receive our transmission soonest — in 41 years, to be specific.
Of course, “they encoded the messages in an arbitrary way, into a binary digit stream,” Vakoch pointed out. “There’s very little chance an extraterrestrial would be able to figure out what was being said.”
‘A Way to Get People Thinking’
Then again, National Geographic has been “very up front about that,” Vakoch said.
After all, more than anything, “the Wow! Signal itself is a kind of a token for the sort of thing we’re looking for,” he explained. If nothing else, “it’s nice to commemorate the 35th anniversary — this has been a way to increase public awareness and get people thinking about what matters to them.”
Indeed, “while the type of ‘listening’ that SETI usually does has a relatively low probability of success, I strongly believe that it should be pursued,” Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist with the Space Telescope Science Institute, told TechNewsWorld. “If you don’t even try then your chances of success are zero!”

 

2013, By: Seo Master
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Pinterest Integration Tips for Bloggers
The internet has fallen in love with Pinterest, and what’s not to love? This fast-growing online destination offers a smorgasbord of images to appease the visually-crazed, and is just social enough to make it a great networking tool. Thanks to the combination of these two elements, Pinterest has become an object of interest to bloggers far and wide.

Even if you don’t have a presence on Pinterest, there is a great chance that your audience does. This means you at least need to give it consideration. For those who are ready to go, the following tips will explain how you can effectively integrate Pinterest with your blogging efforts.

1. ADD A “PIN IT” BUTTON TO YOUR BLOG POSTS

If you follow trends across the social web at all, you knew it wouldn’t be long before Pinterest came out with a button that connects it to the rest of the world. With the Pin It button, you can provide an easy way for people to share your content on their Pinteret boards. Luckily, adding this button to your post is a simple process.

Login to your Pinterest account.
Grab the button code from the “Goodies” section.
Add the code to the HTML area of your blog post and you’re done!
2. MAKE YOUR POSTS PINTERST-FRIENDLY

You’ll see a few videos here and there, but the main activity on Pinterest is sharing images. This is why I highly recommend including images in most, if not all of your posts. If you include at least one image, then readers can pin your entire blog post to a board. You definitely want this type of exposure, so when you go to crank out that next post, don’t forget to complement it with a high quality image or two.

3. USE A PINTEREST PLUGIN

If WordPress is your blogging platform of choice, then you may want to consider using a plugin to support your integration efforts. There are quite a few to choose from, with Pinterest Plugin, Pinterest Galleries, and Pinterst Follow Button being some of the most popular options. While there are no official plugins available for Blogger, there are tools you can use to add Pin It and Follow buttons to your blog.

4. ADD BOARDS TO YOUR BLOG

Most bloggers focus on getting their blog posts on Pinterest, but you can also reverse this and add boards to your blog. There are a couple of ways to do this. You can use a plugin like Pinterest RSS Widget, or code the functionality into your theme, which of course, requires some programming knowledge. You could also use a service like IFTTT, a tool that automates the process for blogs using Pinterest-inspired themes. Keep in mind that the aforementioned methods are all specific to WordPress.

5. NETWORK WITH FELLOW PINNERS

Pinterest may not be the conventional social network, but it falls in the same category as the rest of them nonetheless. You can juice this site for its rich networking capabilities by connecting with other users. Comment on their pins. Like them. Repin them. This is the same approach you want to take when marketing on any social network. Spread the love, steer clear of the spammy advertising tactics, and rubbing shoulders with the Pinterest faithful could send some nice traffic to your blog.

6. TRACK YOUR EFFORTS

So you’ve made the move to integrate Pinterest with your blogging efforts. How’s everything going? Hopefully you have a good tracking system that will allow you to find out. When combing over your reports, you mainly want to find out who is coming in from Pinterest, and what they are doing once they reach your blog. Whether it’s JetPack for WordPress or the Blogger-friendly Google Analytics, there are several tools that can provide these insights.


HOW TO ADD THE PINTEREST PIN IT BUTTON TO BLOGGER?

ADDING PIN IT SCRIPT FOR BLOGGER

  1. Login to Blogger Dashboard > Choose your Blog and Click the More Options Dropdown
  2. Select the Template > Click on Edit HTML > Proceed
  3. Check/Tick the Expand Template Widgets checkbox
  4. Search for </head> and place the below code before it!
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://bloggerblogwidgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/w2b_blogger_pinit.js"></script>

ADDING PIN IT BUTTON SCRIPT

  1. Search for <data:post.body/>
  2. Place the Bellow Pin It Button script before or after it
    - If you add the below code before the <data:post.body/> then it will appear the Before the Post Content.
    - If you add the below code after the <data:post.body/> then it will appear the After the Post Content.
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> 
    <div expr:id="&quot;w2bPinit-&quot; + data:post.id" style="display: none;visibility: hidden;height: 0;width:0;overflow: hidden;" class="w2bPinitButton">
    <data:post.body/>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    w2bPinItButton({
    url:"<data:post.url/>",
    thumb: "<data:post.thumbnailUrl/>",
    id: "<data:post.id/>",
    defaultThumb: "http://www.matrixar.com/-YZe-IcKvGRA/T8op1FIjwYI/AAAAAAAABg4/j-38UjGnQ-Q/s1600/w2b-no-thumbnail.jpg",
    pincount: "horizontal"
    });
    </script>
    </div>
    </b:if>
    Settings
    defaultThumbSet the Default Thumbnail Image URL.
    pincountSet the Pin it Count Style.

ADDING STYLINGS

Add the below styling before ]]></b:skin> tag.
.w2bPinitButton{ 
float: left; /* Customize left/right */
margin-right:10px; /* Customize margin-left/margin-right */
display: block;
padding:4px;
}
Customize the Float and Margin properties according to your need.
I hope this Pin it Button is helpful to you. Please share it with your Friends and Leave your Comments. 



2013, By: Seo Master
Seo Master present to you:
Custom Permalinks for BloggerThis feature is currently available in Blogger’s Draft Version. So if you would like to check it out, head straight over to http://draft.blogger.com and create a new post. In the post options you will see a permalink option.


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If you select the “Automatic URL” (the default option), then Blogger will generate the permalink on it’s own. If you want to specify a custom URL, opt for the “Custom URL” option and you can enter your custom post permalink over there. It will allow you to enter alphabets, hyphens and underscores. It will just ignore underscores. So I just used a combination of hyphens and alphabets to create my post permalink
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 The Final Permalink will be something like
http://your.blogspot.com/yyyy/mm/the custom URL that you specified
In my case it came to something like;
http://myblog.blogspot.com/yyyy/mm/custom-permanent-link.html

2013, By: Seo Master
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