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re: A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:38 pm to Lowdermilk
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:38 pm to Lowdermilk
Pew pew
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:40 pm to Lowdermilk
Scientists belive the signal keeps repeating, "Epstein didn't kill himself."
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:40 pm to lostinbr
How long is it visible every 44 minutes? Maybe something is rotating around it that blocks it away from our view except for that instance every 44 minutes. 3 Body Problem.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:47 pm to forkedintheroad
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So they are just sending EEEEEEEEE
These are clearly Space Cajuns. The observatory simply got to it after the code started and missed the preceding “I.”
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:48 pm to RIPMachoMan
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Light years is a measurement of distance, not time.
Wrong, it's both. It's the distance light can travel over a year.
Light travels ~5.88 trillion miles in a year. So when you're saying "15,000 light years" you're talking about how many miles light travelled over the period of 15,000 years.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:57 pm to RIPMachoMan
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Did I miss in the article how fast the signal was traveling?
Don’t radio waves and X-rays all travel at light speed?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:59 pm to Konkey Dong
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1-800-551-8900
248-434-5508
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:01 pm to Bard
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Wrong, it's both. It's the distance light can travel over a year.
Light travels ~5.88 trillion miles in a year. So when you're saying "15,000 light years" you're talking about how many miles light travelled over the period of 15,000 years.
Huh? You just said it's a measure of distance.
If you want to talk about a measure of time, you don't need to qualify it relative to light...you just say "15,000 years"
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:03 pm to BOSCEAUX
I think pulsar is more likely than that. They are known as the lighthouses of the universe. 44 minutes would seem way to short of a cadence for a transit event. But I thought it was too long for a pulsar, so maybe I'm just over my head
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:06 pm to Lowdermilk
Anything that regular is likely rotating.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:07 pm to Tarps99
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We used to be a proper country.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:11 pm to GRTiger
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I think pulsar is more likely than that. They are known as the lighthouses of the universe. 44 minutes would seem way to short of a cadence for a transit event. But I thought it was too long for a pulsar, so maybe I'm just over my head
44 minutes is the time signature of the signal, which means it is generated at the source every 44 minutes. Not how long it takes to get from the source to our instrument(s). It very well could be a pulsar of such size and rotational velocity that the signal is emitted in our direction every 44 minutes.
ETA - The pulsar could've started emitting the signal in our direction a million years ago for all we know and its first signals are just now reaching us
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:12 pm to Bard
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Wrong, it's both. It's the distance light can travel over a year. Light travels ~5.88 trillion miles in a year. So when you're saying "15,000 light years" you're talking about how many miles light travelled over the period of 15,000 years.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say but it says 15,000 years as a time measurement. A light year would be distance in this case
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:16 pm to ColoradoAg03
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Not how long it takes to get from the source to our instrument(s)
I didnt mean this by using the term cadence.
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It very well could be a pulsar of such size and rotational velocity that the signal is emitted in our direction every 44 minutes.
Yea, I just always thought the cadence of pulsars was more like seconds to a few minutes due to how fast they tend to rotate.
The article calls it a "Long-period transient" but they don't even know what that is yet.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:20 pm to James11111
quote:We make great "tapas" per the tall alien from the Star Trek show "To Serve Man".
we'd have nothing to offer them even as labor, free carbon, or resources if we communicated back.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:20 pm to Saintsisit
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I hope we don't respond. If we do, they're coming here and making us their bitches.
You do know we have a shell of radio signals emanating from our planet. About fifty years out there is the Ed Sullivan show.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:20 pm to Lowdermilk
Nothing is more bizarre to me than when scientists act like Morse Code is going to be some universal language that everyone will understand.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:23 pm to GRTiger
I just typed out my own understanding of the light year distance time question. I then erased it because
A) no one cares and I’m not an astronomer
B) This is tOT and I’m not changing anyones mind anyway…
C) 3.50
A) no one cares and I’m not an astronomer
B) This is tOT and I’m not changing anyones mind anyway…
C) 3.50
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:35 pm to engvol
Hope so. I can receive and type Morse code at 40 words a minute, over headphones. Well I used to could. But it’s like riding a bike, you never forget.
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