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BREAKTHROUGH DETECTS REPEATING FAST RADIO BURSTS COMING FROM DISTANT GALAXY
Universe Today ^ | August 30, 2017 | Matt Williams

Posted on 08/31/2017 8:16:06 AM PDT by C19fan

In July of 2015, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the creation of Breakthrough Listen, a decade-long project that would conduct the largest survey to date for signs of extra-terrestrial communications (ETI). As part of his non-profit organization, Breakthrough Initiatives, this survey would rely on the latest in instrumentation and software to observe the 1,000,000 closest stars and 100 closest galaxies.

Using the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, the Listen science team at UC Berkeley has been observing distant stars for over a year now. And less than a week ago, they observed 15 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) coming from a dwarf galaxy located three billion light-years away. According to a study that described their findings, this was the first time that repeating FRBs have been seen coming from this source at these frequencies.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; yurimilner
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I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens, But It Was Aliens.
1 posted on 08/31/2017 8:16:06 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Big yawn.

The notion that advance alien civilizations would be broadcasting on the electromagnetic spectrum is laughable on its face.


2 posted on 08/31/2017 8:17:53 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: C19fan

Probably a bunch of FM-listening hippies.


3 posted on 08/31/2017 8:17:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: C19fan

I’ve seen these movies. They don’t always end well. We need to build a space wall..


4 posted on 08/31/2017 8:18:38 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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FYI: The full name of the radio telescope is The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. Of course considering Byrd was a KKK Grand Wizard and used every parliamentary maneuver to stop various Civil Rights Acts need to remove to compress the name to just Green Bank Telescope.


5 posted on 08/31/2017 8:18:49 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

a Pulsar?


6 posted on 08/31/2017 8:20:34 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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Are the bursts in Morse code?

"Drink your Ovaltine"?

7 posted on 08/31/2017 8:20:52 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Gee! Only from a dwarf galaxy located three billion light-years away! Lets build a rocket and go!


8 posted on 08/31/2017 8:21:30 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: C19fan

.....coming from a dwarf galaxy located three billion light-years away.....

coming from a galaxy located far, far away...................


9 posted on 08/31/2017 8:21:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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10 posted on 08/31/2017 8:21:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

If these are from an intelligent species, they were sent when single cell life was just getting fully established on earth. That’s a thought.


11 posted on 08/31/2017 8:21:56 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Good times!


12 posted on 08/31/2017 8:22:45 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: hotsteppa

This was posted before. It would take 6 billion years to send a message back and receive a reply.


13 posted on 08/31/2017 8:23:33 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: C19fan

I’ve seen this movie before.

It doesn’t end well for us Earthlings.


14 posted on 08/31/2017 8:23:53 AM PDT by moovova
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To: C19fan

... _ _ _ ... Judge Crater ?


15 posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:40 AM PDT by stylin19a (Chris Rock was right.)
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Probably The Real Housewives of a Dwarf Galaxy located 100,000 light years away.
16 posted on 08/31/2017 8:26:12 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

You think an alien civilization that advanced would still be using primitive radio waves?

That’s like us using smoke signals and clay tablets.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 8:26:13 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: moovova

As long as we keep our Slim Whitman recording arsenal ready, we should be OK...


18 posted on 08/31/2017 8:26:39 AM PDT by MortMan (Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded! [Y. Berra])
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To: C19fan

They could hear Michael Savage.


19 posted on 08/31/2017 8:27:13 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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20 posted on 08/31/2017 8:27:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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