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re: A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:04 pm to engvol
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:04 pm to engvol
Nothing is more bizarre to me than when scientists act like Morse Code is going to be some universal language that everyone will understand.
—Maybe the aliens call it Mars Code
—Maybe the aliens call it Mars Code
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:12 pm to BigCheese2001x
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The message has been decoded, it says: "Drink more Ovaltine"
THAT’S IT , A LOUSY COMMERCIAL? !?! …
Sum Bitch!!
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:28 pm to GeauxDoc
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I just typed out my own understanding of the light year distance time question. I then erased it
Don't complicate it. It's a measure of distance, nothing more. Very simple.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:33 pm to Lowdermilk
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:36 pm to Saintsisit
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they're coming here and making us their bitches.
That's pretty much what Stephen Hawking believed. He said that if intelligent life is out there and they travel millions to light years to Earth, they're not coming to say hello. He believed that an encounter with aliens would not end well for us and that the result would be similar to the fate of the indigenous people when European colonists arrived on American shores.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:46 pm to Boss13
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... . -. -.. / -. ..- -.. . ...
No thank you… I’m going to stick with my original order…
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:48 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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You do know we have a shell of radio signals emanating from our planet.
Yes im aware, it was said in jest.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:11 pm to Crow Pie
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We make great "tapas" per the tall alien from the Star Trek show "To Serve Man".
Great episode of The Twilight Zone...
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:24 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
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He believed that an encounter with aliens would not end well for us
We're already being observed and helped imo. We're an evolutionary project of sorts for a higher entity. If they / God / whatever you want to call it wanted to harm us there is nothing we could do to stop it.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:30 pm to BOSCEAUX
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How long is it visible every 44 minutes?
2 minutes.
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Maybe something is rotating around it that blocks it away from our view except for that instance every 44 minutes. 3 Body Problem.
I don’t think that’s particularly likely, because 44 minutes would be a really short orbital period.
The 3-body explanation wouldn’t be that something is blocking our view every 44 minutes, it would be that a pulsar in a trinary system behaves differently. I’m not sure how much work has been done to model pulsar formation/behavior in trinary systems.
Of course the classical 3-body “problem” is that 3-body systems are chaotic/unstable if they are all close together (e.g. unless one of the bodies is in a far orbit around two central bodies). The unstable orbits are difficult to predict over the long term, and at least one of the stars will eventually be ejected from the system.
Logically the chaotic nature of a close trinary system would make you think that the pulse interval would change over time, rather than being 44 minutes repeatedly. However, we might have to watch LPT’s for a long time to see how the changing orbital patterns impact the pulse interval (consider that typical binary star orbital periods are like 100 years).
So yeah, it could be some sort of weird trinary system. Or some weird effect for a stellar-mass black hole, or who knows what else. Ultimately the issue is just that it doesn’t fit existing pulsar models, but that’s because the existing models for pulsars were built to explain all of the pulsars we could already see. I’m sure someone will develop a model that plausibly explains these observations now that people are looking at it.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:43 pm to RIPMachoMan
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Did I miss in the article how fast the signal was traveling? I know signals can travel light speed, but if it were slower than light speed it could be even older which is cool
Wait a second. So when Darth made the point about how the “signal” originated 15,000 years ago.. and you (and others) decided to argue about how “light years are a measure of distance, not time”…
That whole time, you didn’t realize that radio waves and X-rays travel at the speed of light?
We are observing radio and X-ray emission, which consists of photons. Photons travel at the speed of light. If the source is 15,000 light years away, then by definition that means the photons we are observing were emitted from the source 15,000 years ago.
I have no idea why people are being so pedantic about this.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:48 pm to lostinbr
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I have no idea why people are being so pedantic about this
Welcome to the internet. Have you met Mohamed, Jugdish and Sidney?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:48 pm to lostinbr
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Photons travel at the speed of light.
Because they are massless.
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I have no idea why people are being so pedantic about this.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:50 pm to lostinbr
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lostinbr
Keep talking. That nerd shite is turning me on.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:06 pm to Lowdermilk
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Great episode of The Twilight Zone...
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:11 pm to lostinbr
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have no idea why people are being so pedantic about this.
Because we are stupid.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:25 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
The others are planning a huge reveal in mid 26-27 so none of the shite matters
Posted on 7/8/25 at 9:31 pm to lostinbr
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right, it’s the distance light travels in a year. Which means the light we see today originated 15,000 years ago. Before human civilization existed.
Right but it’s relative and if this was something extraterrestrial it didn’t take 15,000 years to get here. That’s just a general rule for a stationary object
Posted on 7/8/25 at 10:48 pm to tigerfoot
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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
Facts -
The signal is 15,000 years old
It has traveled 88.2 quadrillion miles to get to Earth.
MachoMan is dumb
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:00 pm to Howyouluhdat
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A light year is a measurement of distance not time
Yet the signal is 15,000 years old roughly.
I get why the Internet bad boys are trying to get cute with semantics, however at the end of the day - The signal is a light/em signal and traveling through the mostly vacuum of interstellar space at the speed of light. The same way a star's light reaches us. The Sun 8.3 light minutes from Earth, it takes 8.3 minutes for sunlight to reach us. Light minutes is both a measurement of time and distance.
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