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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected
Yahoo News ^ | Jan 7th, 2009

Posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:14 AM PST by TaraP

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it. But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected. There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; pullmyfinger
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1 posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:14 AM PST by TaraP
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To: TaraP

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1


2 posted on 01/08/2009 10:07:05 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: TaraP

Must be that gigantic sucking sound Ross Perot warned us about.


3 posted on 01/08/2009 10:07:05 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: All

2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven - So will the Son of man come to judgment. And it filled all the house - That is, all that part of the temple where they were sitting.
ACTS 2:2

Suddenly, a sound like the ROAR of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.


4 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:01 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP

God has finally had enough apparently!


5 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:01 AM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: TaraP

This pic finally made it across the universe?..............

6 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:17 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: TaraP

.......Metallica concert on Orion???


7 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:27 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: TaraP
I found the source.


8 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:32 AM PST by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: TaraP

Oh, No! I knew it, I knew it.... They’re coming.


9 posted on 01/08/2009 10:08:45 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: TaraP

10 posted on 01/08/2009 10:09:43 AM PST by skeeter
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To: silverleaf

Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

John 18:40 With a ROAR of voices they again cried out, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber. (WEY)

Acts 19:34 No sooner, however, did they see that he was a Jew, than there arose from them all one roar of shouting, lasting about two hours. “Great is the Ephesian Diana,” they said. (WEY)

Acts 22:22 Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live.” (WEY)

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up


11 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:02 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP
"YOUUUU...ELECTED...WHOOOOO?!"
12 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:19 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
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To: TaraP

ping


13 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:30 AM PST by unkus
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To: TaraP
Photobucket
14 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:43 AM PST by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: TaraP
I believe it may be the hoof beats of the Four Horsemen and they are heading this way.
15 posted on 01/08/2009 10:10:46 AM PST by fish hawk (Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL.....not really.


16 posted on 01/08/2009 10:11:33 AM PST by unkus
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To: Red Badger

Very, very funny!!!!


17 posted on 01/08/2009 10:11:34 AM PST by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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To: TaraP

That’s just the Galactic neighborhood venting about the Obomessiah’s win.


18 posted on 01/08/2009 10:11:40 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: TaraP

I think it’s obvious now that we’re experiencing “Global Roaring”, and that we need to quintuple NASA’s budget.


19 posted on 01/08/2009 10:12:08 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: Red Badger

Damn it!

My eyes! My eyes!


20 posted on 01/08/2009 10:12:09 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (I is a dis in french fried voter.)
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To: TaraP

If man evolved from apes, then why are still apes?


21 posted on 01/08/2009 10:12:19 AM PST by Raster Man
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To: TaraP
This is a really poorly written article. The observation is of electromagnetic radiation, not sound.

The superstitious should know that before jumping to conclusions.

22 posted on 01/08/2009 10:13:34 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: fish hawk; All

The universe really threw us a curve,” Kogut said. “Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted.”

Detailed analysis of the signal ruled out primordial stars or any known radio sources, including gas in the outermost halo of our own galaxy.

Other radio galaxies also can’t account for the noise – there just aren’t enough of them.

“You’d have to pack them into the universe like sardines,” said study team member Dale Fixsen of the University of Maryland. “There wouldn’t be any space left between one galaxy and the next.”

The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe.

For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.

“We really don’t know what it is,”said team member Michael Seiffert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

And not only has it presented astronomers with a new puzzle, it is obscuring the sought-for signal from the earliest stars. But the cosmic static may itself provide important clues to the development of galaxies when the universe was much younger, less than half its present age. Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe.

“This is what makes science so exciting,” Seiffert said. “You start out on a path to measure something – in this case, the heat from the very first stars – but run into something else entirely, some unexplained.”
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090107-aas-loud-cosmic-noise.html


23 posted on 01/08/2009 10:13:54 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: never4get

20 million populated worlds are cringing in horror..............


24 posted on 01/08/2009 10:14:09 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Raster Man
I think you meant to say, “If man evolved from apes, then why are WE still apes.” LOL
25 posted on 01/08/2009 10:15:05 AM PST by fish hawk (Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
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To: Moonman62

More articles about this..I posted on 23


26 posted on 01/08/2009 10:15:48 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP

They’ve found Hell. Be afraid. Be very afraid!


27 posted on 01/08/2009 10:16:59 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TaraP

Thanks for posting.


28 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:15 AM PST by unkus
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To: TaraP

Rut Ro.....12-21-2012


29 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:16 AM PST by BubbaJunebug
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To: TaraP

Just notice you tag line. Good one.


30 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:45 AM PST by fish hawk (Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
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To: TaraP

31 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:45 AM PST by meandog (A bird in this hand is worth the two (41 & 43) named Bush!)
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To: TaraP

Maybe it was Krypton exploding.


32 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:48 AM PST by ditto h
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To: skeeter

Classic.

Check out this remastered trailer of the Doomsday Machine.

http://hubpages.com/hub/The_Doomsday_Machine_Greatest_Episode_in_all_of_Star_Trek


34 posted on 01/08/2009 10:18:20 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (I is a dis in french fried voter.)
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To: The Bat Man

Luuuuuuuuuucy!!!


35 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:08 AM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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To: Moonman62

My first thought was, what audio frequencies does it cover, and how does this “sound” travel through space.


36 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:14 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TaraP

Space is a vacuum. There is no ‘noise’. Are we talking about an electronic signature or high energy wave??


37 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:44 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: Raster Man

“If man evolved from apes, then why are (there) still apes?”

Some apes had higher standards and didn’t wish to “descend”.

Scientists have proven that ape societies are more civilized than certain groups of humans. No self-respecting ape would live in the Middle East, for example.


38 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:29 AM PST by ChicagahAl (So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
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To: Moonman62
The observation is of electromagnetic radiation, not sound.

True. We had a thread here just the other day about "frustrating things at the movies" or some such topic. One of the items was that science fiction movies tend to have noisy explosions in space, and cool "laser sounds" from starfighter combat scenes. It's articles like this one that perpetuate such notions.

39 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Doc Savage

Good question.


40 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:54 AM PST by unkus
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To: TaraP

“To Serve Man”......it’s a cookbook!


41 posted on 01/08/2009 10:22:24 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: TaraP

that last quote sounds a lot like a gamma ray burst
That won’t be a good day on earth

I am wondering if they will be able to deciper any code, pattern or perceive any “information” in this cosmic roar emanating near the beginning of cosmos “time”

“information” that ordered the elements and started life - perhaps out of “light” - and where/how it orginated- is what is missing in evo arguments


42 posted on 01/08/2009 10:22:46 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: TaraP
Nobody knows what causes it.

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I, for one, welcome our new Ant Over-Lords.

43 posted on 01/08/2009 10:23:14 AM PST by txroadkill (I am Senate Candidate No. 5)
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To: skeeter

beautiful- what is it?


44 posted on 01/08/2009 10:23:22 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: silverleaf
The Destroyer of Galaxies.

Not a Star Trek fan?:)

45 posted on 01/08/2009 10:25:03 AM PST by skeeter
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To: TaraP
Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

From Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach".

Perhaps the radio roar is the disturbance left behind by the rapid expansion of space. Or perhaps not. Of course, this is not what Arnold was talking about. Follow the link to see the antecedent of his "Its"...

46 posted on 01/08/2009 10:27:02 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: RobRoy

Yeah it is called Chicago.


47 posted on 01/08/2009 10:27:41 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: TaraP

Spacetime has stretched as far as it can and is now rebounding ... back to the future bang.


48 posted on 01/08/2009 10:27:59 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: silverleaf

Eta Carinae’s chief significance for astrophysics is based on its giant eruption or supernova imposter event seen around 1843. In a few years, Eta Carinae produced almost as much visible light as a supernova explosion, but it survived. Other supernova imposters have been seen in other galaxies, for example the false supernovas...

I think Fox had said something about an Eta Carinae’s explosion 11/11/09
but who knows, there is much about many things going on in our world right now..

IMHO- We can only count on one thing GOD’s holiness on mankind.


50 posted on 01/08/2009 10:31:54 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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