[bwest]

It’s a countdown. A real slow one, but a countdown.

[Steely Tom]

The whole FRB thing is one of the most interesting developments in astronomy since quasars, back in the early ‘60s.

[RandallFlagg]

Ming the Merciless?

[dfwgator]

“Send More Chuck Berry!”

[Tallguy]

*** It fires off bursts for a four-day stretch, goes quiet for 12 days and then starts all over again. ***

Looks like it takes the Little Green Men a long time to reload! File this away for when Capt. Kirk gets there and needs to slip inside their planetary defenses.

[Theo]

[Psalm 73]

"...strong indications of a 157-day activity cycle..."

That would be 157 earth-days?
Why the hell would a deep-space event be on a cycle based on our solar system?

[seawolf101]

[TangoLimaSierra]

We're being fired upon. We should shoot back.

#CouldBeALongWar

[Carriage Hill]

“... periodic flare-ups could be caused by a wobble in the rotational axis of a highly magnetized neutron star known as a magnetar. Or they could be linked to the orbital motions of a neutron star in a binary system.”

I have no idea what that means.

[PIF]

Timer pluses for extra-solar encrypted communications

[bgill]

Sometimes it’s best not to invite the more advanced to your puny little planet.

[moovova]

[windflier originally posted this in 2015!]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3262366/posts?page=74#74

[COBOL2Java]

They're able to translate the signals.

"You will dump Biden and vote for me!"

[Night Hides Not]

It takes them 157 days to study the last batch of "historical documents."

[Vaduz]

Just Mervin’s space ship back firing the ion generator is on the fritz.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*