Mysterious radio bursts from space

[anonymous-user]

Repeating every 16 days

Aliens?

https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-...

[Eric Mc]

Why jump to that conclusion?

[anonymous-user]

I didn't, it was a question.

Fascinating though.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 13th February 08:14

[hotchy]

Eric Mc said:

Why jump to that conclusion?

Because we can all dream star trek becomes reality.

[Gojira]

Eric Mc said:

Why jump to that conclusion?

Well, Jocelyn Bell Burnell's group did refer to their first pulsar as LGM-1 for a while!

[Silkyskills]

Eric Mc said:

Why jump to that conclusion?

Because sexy.

[stew-STR160]

Already a thread opened about this.

Anyway...

Source of the FRB is about 500million light years away. Even if it were aliens, kinda moot now.

[Gary29]

What a horrible website, unreadable due to advertising overload.

[GOATever]

It’s aliens.

[stew-STR160]

Gary29 said:

What a horrible website, unreadable due to advertising overload.

Try - https://phys.org/news/2020-02-fast-radio-steady-da...

[Eric Mc]

Gojira said:

Well, Jocelyn Bell Burnell's group did refer to their first pulsar as LGM-1 for a while!

That was over 50 years ago. Today,we have a much better understanding of the multivarious phenomena that exist in the universe. We now know of dozens of types objects that emit regular types of radio bursts for completely natural reasons.

[Gary29]

stew-STR160 said:

Try - https://phys.org/news/2020-02-fast-radio-steady-da...

Much better thank you!

[Gojira]

Eric Mc said:

Gojira said:

Well, Jocelyn Bell Burnell's group did refer to their first pulsar as LGM-1 for a while!

That was over 50 years ago. Today,we have a much better understanding of the multivarious phenomena that exist in the universe. We now know of dozens of types objects that emit regular types of radio bursts for completely natural reasons.

And we appear to have lost our sense of fun...

You've got a postgrad student in the late 60's with an unexplained radio signal, what else were you going to call it?

Actually, there's a nice writeup from the lady herself here, if you haven't seen it, from the late '70s:

http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm

[Eric Mc]

It can be something as innocuous as that. It MAY be something very interesting and unknown - but it will almost definitely turn out to be natural.

[Simpo Two]

digimeistter said:

Repeating every 16 days

Aliens?

https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-...

I'm sure aliens have better things to do than press a 'transmit' button once every 16 days.

[FourWheelDrift]

digimeistter said:

Repeating every 16 days

Aliens?

It's counting down and

[Terminator X]

Simpo Two said:

digimeistter said:

Repeating every 16 days

Aliens?

https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-...

I'm sure aliens have better things to do than press a 'transmit' button once every 16 days.

Perhaps like Lost, had to keep pressing the button to avoid some unknown catastrophe?

TX.

[AlienLifeForm]

No one knows what FRB’s are. But it’s almost certainly not aliens. The energies involved are so vast as to make that idea unlikely.

[underwhelmist]

Gojira said:

And we appear to have lost our sense of fun...

You've got a postgrad student in the late 60's with an unexplained radio signal, what else were you going to call it?

Actually, there's a nice writeup from the lady herself here, if you haven't seen it, from the late '70s:

http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm

Also the inspiration for (I think) the best album cover ever:

[FourWheelDrift]

It's God and the message is trillions of years old. It says "Watch this!"