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Mystery radio bursts from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers
DailyMail/Drudge ^ | 16 May | JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN

Posted on 05/18/2014 7:00:11 AM PDT by shove_it

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In 1967 British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell was left stunned by mysterious pulsing signals she detected coming from outside the solar system.

For months she suggested the signals could be of an extraterrestrial intelligent origin, but they were later proven to be rapidly spinning stars known as pulsars. However, a new series of mysterious signals, known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), has again got astronomers scratching their heads and wondering if, maybe, we’re picking up alien messages...

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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; darkenergy; darkforce; darkmatter; fastradiobursts; fermiparadox; frb; jocelynbellburnell; pulsars; speedofdark; stringtheory; stuned; wormhole; wormholes
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To: shove_it

If so, they were sent hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago.


41 posted on 05/18/2014 11:36:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Popman

of much be that assured,.....

Al Sharpton makes George Kingfish Stevens look like a piiker!!!


42 posted on 05/18/2014 11:41:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: shove_it; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks shove_it, related: Where Are The Aliens? How The ‘Great Filter’ Could Affect Tech Advances In Space.

43 posted on 05/18/2014 12:07:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Do we know the location of Obama and Reggie Love at those times?


44 posted on 05/18/2014 1:26:52 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: laconic

“If they are aliens and they come for a visit, I hope they eat only liberals.”

Actually most stay, and then wait to get legalized, and then vote Democrat.


45 posted on 05/18/2014 1:30:43 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Beowulf9

Love Love Love Art Bell....

Is he still living in the Philippines?


46 posted on 05/18/2014 2:47:36 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

“Love Love Love Art Bell....

Is he still living in the Philippines?”

Nope. Back in Pahrump.


47 posted on 05/18/2014 2:52:35 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: shove_it
One five millisecond pulse above background, just an amplitude spike with no apparent modulation?

Things must be going real slow over at the radio telescope place :)

48 posted on 05/18/2014 3:08:38 PM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: shove_it

Pulsars too were originally thought to possibly be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligent life.


49 posted on 05/18/2014 3:19:24 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: ballplayer

rumor has it that the first closeted couple....were in The Situation Room....at around those times


50 posted on 05/18/2014 5:19:12 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Interesting. I did not know Aramaic was spoken in Babylon.


51 posted on 05/18/2014 6:02:52 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: Theophilus

Jews took it with them into Babylon.


52 posted on 05/18/2014 6:13:11 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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53 posted on 01/18/2015 1:02:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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