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1 posted on 08/30/2017 3:41:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Extraterrestrial swamp gas!


2 posted on 08/30/2017 3:43:57 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: BenLurkin
So-o-o, the source sent the message 3 billion years ago. Hm. Whatever it was, probably pretty old news by now.
3 posted on 08/30/2017 3:52:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: BenLurkin; null and void

[ A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy. ]

Weather balloons crashing on Mac Brazel’s ranch again. Just farther away.


4 posted on 08/30/2017 3:56:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: BenLurkin

$6.66 million per flashing light.

Pretty good ROI. /sarc


5 posted on 08/30/2017 3:57:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have a theory (probably not original) which I call the “independence Day” theory to explain why we have not discuvered alien life. There may be a hunter-type alien that just lurks until it picks up emissions that signal intelligent life. It then swarms the people who sent the signal and destroys them. If and when SETI discovers a more effective way to transmit intelligent signals, you KNOW that no one will have the discipline to NOT broadcast, even though it is likely that those receiving the signal are far more advanced than us. Alien life could sprout up all over the universe, but once they get to the point where they can broadcast in space, they get gobbled up.


6 posted on 08/30/2017 4:03:40 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: BenLurkin

light flashes ? ...dude...step away from the mushrooms


7 posted on 08/30/2017 4:10:16 PM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: BenLurkin

Brilliant men bumbling around the three billion year old dark of outer space.....

Meanwhile, research on diabetes, cancer aging illnesses and starvation are on the back burner.....

Put all space research onto the private sector (it will die), space flight in the military punch bowl and let origins be a philosophical discussion over folks favorite beverages....

So called “science” at work again. On the taxpayers dollar.


8 posted on 08/30/2017 4:11:08 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of and they are allowed to vote!War")
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To: BenLurkin
An article long on speculative sensationalism but short on logic and fact.

Was the light coherent, or non-coherent? Because that obvious question was not addressed, the answer can only be that the light was non-coherent and not created by any ET.

12 posted on 08/30/2017 4:14:05 PM PDT by fso301
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To: BenLurkin

Some alien trying out his new LED flashlight.


14 posted on 08/30/2017 4:19:16 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: BenLurkin

After every other hypothesis had proven wrong, go to aliens, but that should be at the back of the queue.


16 posted on 08/30/2017 4:22:41 PM PDT by Sawdring
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"search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy. The galaxy — a dwarf known as FRB 121102 that lies 3 billion light-years from Earth "

So, if it is 3 billion light years away and the 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light, that means this is one of two things, either the light was signaled 3 billion years ago, for light travels at the speed of light,

OR, as I believe,

The Bible is true and this claim is BULL DUNG.

20 posted on 08/30/2017 4:36:32 PM PDT by Bob Celeste
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Maybe these are the residual lights from alien weapons as they wiped themselves out as a species 3 billion years ago...


27 posted on 08/30/2017 5:07:10 PM PDT by chrisser
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Because getting a message delivered in 3 billion years is practical.

The speed of light is useless for communications outside of a star system let alone a galaxy.


31 posted on 08/30/2017 5:15:51 PM PDT by Justa
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Time to send them back signals that translate to the first chapter of Hillary’s new book. Once they receive it in billions of years, they will conclude that there’s no intelligent life on Earth, and spare us.


32 posted on 08/30/2017 5:36:13 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: BenLurkin

All that money for a few people to maintain a hobby.....One more reason why the founding fathers said no to a tax on income.


34 posted on 08/30/2017 6:27:07 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s nice to know that we’re not the only ones who forget to cancel the turn signal.


35 posted on 08/30/2017 7:41:23 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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36 posted on 08/30/2017 7:43:24 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin

It says “Stop playing with that light switch!”


39 posted on 08/31/2017 3:07:40 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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There are no space faring races.

Life, almost certainly.

Intelligent species, maybe.

But those that cross interstellar distances, I don’t think so or they would have colonized the cosmos by now.


42 posted on 08/31/2017 3:52:41 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Kim Jon Un. Entered the world stage Unopposed, led Unapologetically, died Unidentified.)
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