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Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin
www.sciencealert.com ^ | 7 JAN 2020 | MICHELLE STARR

Posted on 01/07/2020 8:25:46 AM PST by Red Badger

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away..................
1 posted on 01/07/2020 8:25:46 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 01/07/2020 8:26:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin

A Howard Stern pirate on Rigel 7?


3 posted on 01/07/2020 8:28:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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send more chuck berry


4 posted on 01/07/2020 8:29:00 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”


5 posted on 01/07/2020 8:30:49 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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The message was decoded...


6 posted on 01/07/2020 8:31:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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Don’t go to Ceta alpha V!


7 posted on 01/07/2020 8:32:02 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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8 posted on 01/07/2020 8:33:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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It’s all part of some clever trick by the Doctor.


9 posted on 01/07/2020 8:34:23 AM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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“With the characterisation of this source, the argument against against pulsar-like emission as origin for repeating FRBs is gaining strength,” said Ramesh Karuppusamy

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Which leaves a bunch of other natural and boring explanations. Always look for the facts near the bottom of an article.


10 posted on 01/07/2020 8:34:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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Epsilon 3
The Great Machine


11 posted on 01/07/2020 8:36:17 AM PST by Zathras
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12 posted on 01/07/2020 8:40:19 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true.... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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Marvin is such a trickster.


13 posted on 01/07/2020 8:40:33 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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“Send less Nickelback.”


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Thanks Red Badger.
 
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15 posted on 01/07/2020 8:42:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv ( Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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16 posted on 01/07/2020 8:46:33 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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They are extremely brief spikes in electromagnetic radiation detected by radio telescopes, lasting no more than a few milliseconds at most. But in that time, they can discharge more energy than 500 million Suns.

That assumes that the energy is being emitted in all directions, rather than it being a spinning source which has a tightly focused beam of energy passing across us.

17 posted on 01/07/2020 8:47:37 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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18 posted on 01/07/2020 8:48:54 AM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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Maybe Talos IV is trying to communicate with us
19 posted on 01/07/2020 8:54:30 AM PST by DFG
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20 posted on 01/07/2020 8:56:57 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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