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Radio Signals From Other Side of Universe Discovered

Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:19 am
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
66831 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:19 am
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Dozens of radio signals emanating from deep space have been discovered. These signals—known as fast radio bursts (FRBs)—were first discovered just over a decade ago and since then have posed a mystery for scientists studying them.

FRBs last just a few milliseconds and appear to be coming from a source beyond the Milky Way. They are picked up by radio telescopes—but are normally only found by scientists in the data long after the event has ended. They have previously been compared to seeing the flash of a camera in a pitch black room, then trying to work out where the camera is located while still in the dark.
Which I have the ability to do. I can also find the lighter I just dropped between the seats of a darkened car, so call me.

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Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
64385 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:25 am to
Are you sure it's not from Uranus?
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
172004 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:26 am to
quote:

They have previously been compared to seeing the flash of a camera in a pitch black room, then trying to work out where the camera is located while still in the dark.


This is an unsettling description.
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
33897 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:28 am to
Posted by Sody Cracker
Distemper Ward
Member since May 2016
3409 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:29 am to
Probably the microwave oven again.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
40907 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:29 am to
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76148 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 8:31 am to
Good to hear, now I have something else to worry about

Posted by Pax Regis
Alabama
Member since Sep 2007
15383 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 9:19 am to
I think this was the plot of the movie Contact. Someone get Jodie Foster on the line.
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19183 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 9:23 am to
Its Elon’s Saturn
Posted by RollTide1987
Baltimore, MD
Member since Nov 2009
71721 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 9:25 am to
Sounds like the plot to Event Horizon all over again.

Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
66831 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 9:27 am to
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life night develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Damn son.
Posted by Tiny Rick
In a vat in the garage
Member since Jan 2016
1517 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 9:34 am to
He’s not wrong and puts an interesting perspective on it. Think about it this way. If we were visited by another life form Earth would immediately take whatever shows up as a threat and have weapons pointed at it. Which I have always found somewhat funny that we would look to defend ourselves from something that is clearly much more advanced than we are.
Posted by Bagger Joe
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2014
853 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:00 am to
IF these signals were sent from some intelligent life form, the chances of them surviving for 3.7 billion years are very slim.
This post was edited on 10/11/18 at 10:01 am
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
66831 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:02 am to
quote:

Think about it this way. If we were visited by another life form Earth would immediately take whatever shows up as a threat and have weapons pointed at it. Which I have always found somewhat funny that we would look to defend ourselves from something that is clearly much more advanced than we are.

That's not what he means. He's saying that based on our past actions, we could very well evolve into a malicious race, or at least one that is destructive to less developed races.
Posted by Tempratt
Member since Oct 2013
15307 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:08 am to
Whatever sent them is dead by now.
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
31593 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:11 am to
Space is filled with radio waves that’s nothing new. We’ve had radio telescopes for a long time. The weirdness of the FRBs is the amount of energy that’s packed into it.
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
33054 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:11 am to
Edit:

My comment was made already...
This post was edited on 10/11/18 at 10:13 am
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
30732 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:12 am to
quote:

Which I have always found somewhat funny that we would look to defend ourselves from something that is clearly much more advanced than we are.


What if they are so advanced, all you had to do was throw water on them and they all died?
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23545 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:28 am to
Is it Hitler opening the 1936 Olympics?

Posted by LarryDavid
Los Angeles
Member since Sep 2010
4207 posts
Posted on 10/11/18 at 10:32 am to
No worries. Some of my old rock shows are just about there.

On second thought. We're all screwed.
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