{"id":345819,"date":"2017-07-18T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3d62494776a6c61eb52a15376be76b35"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:50:01","slug":"how-do-you-work-out-if-a-signal-from-space-is-a-message-from-aliens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=345819","title":{"rendered":"How do you work out if a signal from space is a message from aliens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico havedetected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They&#8217;re not getting too excited about the prospect of an alien civilisation contacting us just yet though. &#8220;In case you are wondering, the recurrent aliens hypothesis is at the bottom of many other better explanations,&#8221; said Abel Mendez, the scientist leading the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico havedetected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They&#8217;re not getting too excited about the prospect of an alien civilisation contacti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345820,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345819\/revisions\/345820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}