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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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Full headline: Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:00:11 AM PDT
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:02:25 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: shove_it; SunkenCiv
Astronomer stuned
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:04:26 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: shove_it
Just surveying for an intergalactic highway.
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:05:28 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
To: MeshugeMikey
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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posted on
05/18/2014 7:06:39 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: MeshugeMikey; Salamander
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:08:13 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shove_it
What’s the freak frequency Kenneth?
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: spokeshave
Vogon Constructor Fleet inbound.
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:12:25 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: spokeshave
To: spokeshave
Wifi hotspot or an alien teenager war driving in daddy’s interstellar shuttle...
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:16:10 AM PDT
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: shove_it
Translated into Hebrew they say: “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin”
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:17:09 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
To: shove_it
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:19:01 AM PDT
by
Nea Wood
(When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
To: shibumi
ahaha given the undecipherable nature of the message.... Very Likely!
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:21:02 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: Theophilus
Actually the words are Aramaic which is a sister Semitic language to Hebrew.
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:23:52 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Nea Wood
“Send more Chuck Berry!” Darn, I came to this thread to post the same thing, and you beat me to it....
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:23:58 AM PDT
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: MeshugeMikey
If they are aliens and they come for a visit, I hope they eat only liberals.
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:24:20 AM PDT
by
laconic
To: laconic
It would take a very strange pallet to be able to stomach a liberal...
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:26:11 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: Nea Wood
Maybe they should use their Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring to figure it out!
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:26:21 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: shove_it
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:26:48 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: shove_it
"Outside the Milky Way..."
If the people doesn't understand the difference between the Milky Way and the solar system, why not stop at "extraterrestrial?"
That big fire in the sky, every day, its a star, and a pretty modest one. It would be invisible to the naked human eye only 50 light years out.
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posted on
05/18/2014 7:27:04 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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