Posted on 08/30/2017 3:41:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy.
The galaxy a dwarf known as FRB 121102 that lies 3 billion light-years from Earth is a known source of such brief, high-energy fast radio bursts (FRBs). But the newly detected pulses stand out, astronomers said.
"Bursts from this source have never been seen at this high a frequency," Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement.
Some researchers think FRBs which were discovered in 2007 and remain mysterious today could be such alien signals. For example, astronomers have speculated that FRBs may be generated by powerful lasers designed to blast alien craft through space at high speeds a propulsion method akin to that being developed by Breakthrough Listen's ambitious sister project, Breakthrough Starshot. (Aliens aren't the only possible explanation, of course; some scientists think FRBs are likely emitted by fast-rotating neutron stars, for instance.)
So, FRB 121102 which, as its name suggests, was discovered on Nov. 2, 2012 was a natural target for the Breakthrough Listen team, researchers said. The scientists, led by Berkeley SETI Research Center postdoctoral researcher Vishal Gajjar, detected the 15 new pulses on Saturday (Aug. 26) using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
"As well as confirming that the source is in a newly active state, the high resolution of the data obtained by the Listen instrument will allow measurement of the properties of these mysterious bursts at a higher precision than ever possible before," Gajjar said in the same statement.
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Probably some of the silver that he missed trying to corner the market back in the late 1970s.
I also have a theory about alien intelligent life. (1) We evolved intelligence because it helped us solve problems unique to our environment on Earth. A radically different environment would present different evolutionary pressures and lead to the emergence of a different type of intelligence. Such an entity could be sufficiently different that we would not recognize it as intelligent or perhaps even being alive. In other words, we might meet ET and not even know it. (2) A sufficiently advanced civilization would communicate and travel by means we cannot yet even imagine, much less know to look for. It would be like our ancestors who had no knowledge of radio waves or lasers looking into space for semaphores or smoke signals.
There could also be ‘intelligences’ that are so far invisible or imperceptible to us, on or within the sphere of our own planet.
We have been transmitting EM signals for 100 years. There are 100 light years from Earth. If we contacted anyone at the 50 light year mark they will be here any day now.
It’s pretty safe to say that it wasn’t created by any alien. And even if it was, that alien has been dead for three billion years.
Maybe these are the residual lights from alien weapons as they wiped themselves out as a species 3 billion years ago...
A guy a my church once asked me, “Maybe the universe just looks older than it is. Don’t you believe God could create the light on its way here from the stars?”
And I said, “Sure He could. But why?”
“I have a theory”
They should make a movie about that.
Because getting a message delivered in 3 billion years is practical.
The speed of light is useless for communications outside of a star system let alone a galaxy.
Time to send them back signals that translate to the first chapter of Hillary’s new book. Once they receive it in billions of years, they will conclude that there’s no intelligent life on Earth, and spare us.
All that money for a few people to maintain a hobby.....One more reason why the founding fathers said no to a tax on income.
It’s nice to know that we’re not the only ones who forget to cancel the turn signal.
The earth sends a 50/60 hz tone 12 hours at 50 cycles per second and 12 hours of 60 cycles. This is caused by the power grids in Europe and the americas. Their power is 50hz, ours 60 hz.
This signal is 50 times brighter than the sun. We have already transmitted to ET over the last 10 decades. Too late to hide now...
Like flaming globes!
That’s not funny.....
It says “Stop playing with that light switch!”
That too.
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