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Researchers track 72 unusual radio bursts from outer space
NwesRep ^ | 09/14/2018 | Alex Hollings

Posted on 09/15/2018 4:49:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin

As recently as two years ago, SETI began picking up a different kind of signal — one that scientists can’t explain but believe that it isn’t born out of an attempt to communicate: fast radio bursts (FRBs). These FRBs are massively powerful; so powerful, in fact, that the leading natural explanation scientists can come up with is that they’re from “highly magnetized neutron stars, blasted by gas streams near to a supermassive black hole.”

The problem with that explanation is that the bursts aren’t all coming from one specific place, but they are all coming from one specific region of space. That means, based on SETI’s readings, that those specific circumstances would need to be commonplace within galaxy FRB 121102 (where the signals are coming from) but not common at all elsewhere in the known universe. If they were, these FRBs would be picked up from all-around us all the time, rather than from one specific galactic neighborhood. While FRBs have been picked up from other parts of space, they have never been recorded with the frequency or regularity scientists have seen out of galaxy FRB 121102.

Others contend that they may be signs of an advanced alien civilization operating in galaxy FRB 121102, though surprisingly, most of those theories suggest that the radio signals actually have nothing at all to do with communication.

A planet-sized power source could potentially release a massive burst of energy that propels a spacecraft like wind on a sail. Based on the amount of energy released in each burst, Loeb says they could propel a craft that weighs millions of tons at velocities that are approaching the speed of light.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 42; fastradiobursts; frb121102; frbs; seti; thanksforthefish; ultimatequestion; xplanets
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To: sphinx

FRB 121102 “... a dwarf galaxy over 3 billion light-years from Earth”

so that would be billions not millions of years ago. If these FRBs are artificial, the culture that generated them has long either perished or sublimed ...

Or, traveling at near speed of light, they may be just about ready to arrive in our solar system because all the aliens races always seem to pick our star out of the billions of others in this galaxy.

Or, they could be going to another galaxy entirely.


21 posted on 09/15/2018 5:52:19 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LffYeZtH9Vw


22 posted on 09/15/2018 5:54:53 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: P.O.E.

When a giant cockroach named bingo tells you God went out for a beer, you better believe him.


23 posted on 09/15/2018 5:55:54 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BenLurkin

Obviously it’s communication over a subspace channel from Putin to Trump giving him his orders for the week.


24 posted on 09/15/2018 5:58:20 AM PDT by flatpickingflyer
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To: Vaquero

I’ll check it out


25 posted on 09/15/2018 6:04:59 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: BenLurkin

Someone pushed the red button.


26 posted on 09/15/2018 6:08:49 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a 12 year old alien kid who’s powering up his death ray to take out Earth.

Anyone out there who could return a signal is far more advanced than we are. Having SETI is a very bad thing.


27 posted on 09/15/2018 6:25:00 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sphinx
Loeb posits that these massive bursts of energy might actually be a part of a near-light-speed propulsion system not unlike the solar sails mankind is currently experimenting with. A planet-sized power source could potentially release a massive burst of energy that propels a spacecraft like wind on a sail. Based on the amount of energy released in each burst, Loeb says they could propel a craft that weighs millions of tons at velocities that are approaching the speed of light.

If that were the case, they would almost be here....if heading in this direction....time to keep our eyes open.....;-)

28 posted on 09/15/2018 6:26:24 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: Linda Frances

Or He had beans for dinner.


29 posted on 09/15/2018 6:35:56 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin
"Loeb posits that these massive bursts of energy might actually be a part of a near-light-speed propulsion system not unlike the solar sails mankind is currently experimenting with."

Yeah, the MOTIES have gone Crazy Eddie again.

30 posted on 09/15/2018 8:48:18 AM PDT by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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To: Vermont Lt
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31 posted on 09/15/2018 9:03:22 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: BenLurkin

Space is a very noisy place NASA has some sound you can hear.


32 posted on 09/15/2018 10:41:43 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: BenLurkin; KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.
 
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33 posted on 09/15/2018 11:03:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Vaduz

...and THIS is merely another reason to impeach President Trump .


34 posted on 09/15/2018 11:04:09 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Vaduz

...and THIS is merely another reason to impeach President Trump .


35 posted on 09/15/2018 11:04:15 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Hey anything sounds good to the crazy it’s why they check under their beds at night for pods.


36 posted on 09/15/2018 11:13:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Vaduz

I bet there are pods there...empty ones. The pods are the ones these lunatics emerged from.


37 posted on 09/15/2018 11:20:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Sure looks like it.


38 posted on 09/16/2018 7:42:10 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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