Monthly Archives: March 2012

Adele’s Haunted House

You would have had to been living on Mars not to have heard of record-breaking singer songwriter Adele. Her debut album, 19 was released in 2008 and was a great commercial and critical success – so much so it went platinum four times in the UK.

Adele’s Haunted House

At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her next album 21 added another six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night.

Naturally, this level of success has earned the singer a few pennies in the bank and she decided to look for a new home to call her own. So recently she bought a modest little dwelling in Sussex so she could be near her boyfriend, Simon Konecki, who lives in Brighton.

Admittedly Adele’s bijou little residence isn’t all that bijou, it is set in 25 acres of land, has two swimming pools, ten bedrooms, a helicopter pad, uninterrupted views of the South Downs and a tennis court. Then again, as Adele is paying a rent of £15,000 a month you’d expect she get a few extras thrown in. And that’s the problem. It seems she isn’t the only occupant in her new nest and this one may have been there much much longer. Adele is convinced that what she wanted to be a happy home is actually a haunted house. A friend told British The Sun newspaper that Adele was not comfortable in her mansion.

“She is convinced it is haunted. She knows about its religious history — and it’s a big place to be in on your own in the dead of night.”

Adele herself commented on the 60 Minutes programme to its presenter Anderson Cooper; as they moved through a dark corridor of her Partridge Green home that;

‘This bit is quite scary really’

She also claims to have heard strange noises in the building part of which was a convent. So what is a star to do when she’s feeling spooked in her own mansion? Pay someone to keep her company of course. And Adele is doing just that she is reportedly paying a female bodyguard, a former chauffeur, who is in her 30s £100,000 a year to stay with her in the historic listed building 24/7. As the singer put it;

“I’m not rattling around here on my own. It gives me the creeps.”

Imagine being paid £100,000 for hanging out in a mansion with swimming pools, a tennis court and stunning views? Now, that’s my sort of job! Unfortunately, spooky spirits are not Adele’s only problem. She has had two hire another two guards. These two members of staff will be needed to guard the gates of the mansion after Adele discovered a public footpath runs past the front door of her rural retreat. A friend said:

“She can see the funny side but she is a sensible girl and knows there is no point taking chances with her safety.”

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Let’s be honest, unless you are a super-bright super-fit scientist from an Ivy League university or a super-rich billionaire with a taste for travelling in less than comfort circumstances the chances of you making a voyage into space are a bit well, remote.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

If on top of this you also fancy discovering an alien life form your chances range from zilch to zero, until now that is.  The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project needs your help.

SETI scans the skies searching for signs of intelligent life in the universe but funding cuts mean it has had to become more and more creative in how it conducts its research. In 1999 it set up SETI@home in which spare processing power on volunteer’s computers was used to sift through information gained by its radio telescopes. So far this has attracted more than 1m users.

Buoyed by this success on 29th February SETI took the notion of “citizen science” a stage further, this time it’s not our computers they want to put to good use but our brains. SETIlive hopes to use the human ability to recognise patterns to distinguish between the background noise of space and the possible sound of alien communication.

The idea behind SETI is to look for artificial radio signals which are not generated from Earth. To do this they use 42 small radio telescopes known as the Allen Array. Unfortunately, certain parts of the spectrum of radio waves are inundated by noise created by human activity which could drown out any alien attempts at communication.

SETI hopes to send  pictorial representations of the noisy spots to its supporters in the hope they can filter out the noise and spot any unusual signals. Users will log on to setilive.org and view the information hot from the Allen Array, every 90 second this telescopes will change their direction and a new image will be produced. Should someone spot something within just three minutes the telescopes will be realigned to study that wavelength further.

This is important because when users found interesting signals in the past they were looking at information which was already months old and by the time the scientists turned their attention to the relevant sites the signals had vanished.

One of the most famous of these occurrences known as the WOW signal pre-dates SETI@home and occurred in 1977. Scientists trudging through reams of data come across a powerful finely tuned broadcast of a type astronomers theorised aliens might use. Sadly, by the time it had been spotted and the instruments recalibrated to take a more in-depth study the signal had disappeared.

SETI live means should another should another signal be found scientists could turn their attention to the correct area immediately. Just imagine it, the discovery of alien life which would unquestionably be the greatest moment in human history might not depend on interstellar travel and spacesuits but on someone sitting in their home looking at the internet. Could that person be you?

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