[shove_it]

space cadet ping

[FlingWingFlyer]

Probably more alien “toddlers” seeking refuge in the U.S. Trying to make contact with the U.S. Boarder Patrol to see if their rooms are ready.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

It could be extraterrestrials or not.

[maine-iac7]

I sure HOPE there’s intelligent life out there somewhere.

We sure missed the boat down here

[SandRat]

The first Contact is comming!

[a fool in paradise]

UFO with a CB?

[rockinqsranch]

Signals from a source in the Universe somewhere seeking help to rid their planet of Liberals?

[dainbramaged]

Hopefully not some Romulan colonization protocols.

[R_Kangel]

.... Heck .... I will bet .... in fact ... I will guarantee that these burst were generated a long long time ago .... in a galaxy far far away.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Whatever the first dude suggests it is will become settled science within a year.

[The Cajun]

A few millisecond burst sure sounds more electronic glitch in nature than cosmic.
If two radio telescopes pick them up at the same time, then you got something, so far that hasn't happened.

[faithhopecharity]

the signal is probably just some Romulan sending a pornographic video to his buddies on Planet Zork

[RightGeek]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Incoming cosmic rap music from the sun. George Bush’s fault, no doubt.

[JimRed]

How can they tell that the radio bursts are originating outside the galaxy? The direction, maybe?

[PUGACHEV]

The article mentions that the burst were discovered by the radio telescope at Arecibo. I was there a few years ago, and I recommend the trip to anyone going to PR. It takes a bit winding through West Virginia like back roads up and down ridges and through small hollows to get there, but it is worth it. The scale of the telescope is so breathtakingly immense that it is not properly conveyed in film or on television. And even though it is no longer on the cutting edge of radio astronomy, it just feels as if it would be the first place to make contact.

[ronnie raygun]

The news is out thier sending ther children here

[beebuster2000]

if its radio waves from outside the galaxy it has to be of crazy old origin, it would take that long, maybe billions of years, for something to get here at the speed of radio. even if it was FM, not AM

[mikrofon]

[Fiji Hill]

Maybe it's the Outer Space Looters.