Soldier: Those lights are blinking out of sequence.
Buck Murdock: I see.
Soldier: What should we do?
Buck Murdock: Make them blink in sequence.
Posted on 03/17/2016 8:56:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
All right, maybe not blinking like a flashlight... but the now-famous “bright spots” on the dwarf planet Ceres have been observed to detectably increase and decrease in brightness, if ever-so-slightly.
And what’s particularly interesting is that these observations were made not by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, currently in orbit around Ceres, but from a telescope right here on Earth.
Researchers using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla detected “unexpected” changes in the brightness of Ceres during observations in July and August of 2015. Variations in line with Ceres’ 9-hour rotational period—specifically a Doppler effect in spectral wavelength created by the motion of the bright spots toward or away from Earth—were expected, but other fluctuations in brightness were also detected.
“The result was a surprise,” said Antonino Lanza from the INAF–Catania Astrophysical Observatory, co-author of the study. “We did find the expected changes to the spectrum from the rotation of Ceres, but with considerable other variations from night to night.”
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
I turn the lights off when I’m not using them. Saves on the bill.
Saw that. Was Morse code. Said this. ...- -— - . / ..-. -— .-. / -.. -— -. .- .-.. -.. / - .-. ..- — .—.
Holy crap it looks binary:
Ons and offs on the flashes.
01010110 01101111 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01101101 01110000 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101101 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110011
It’s blinking secret instructions to bho
Soldier: Those lights are blinking out of sequence.
Buck Murdock: I see.
Soldier: What should we do?
Buck Murdock: Make them blink in sequence.
Six posts in and we haven’t seen the History Channel guy?
A B C D E F G H I J K . M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Oh Wait....No L....NOL....NoL
Galactic Christmas Greeting
Not sure I trust Ceres with all its shenanigans.
I was the first to speak out against Ceres.
Freegards
It's probably voicing an objection to being called a dwarf planet.
‘They’re blinking, Jim.’
This is hue and vey Ceres.
“Drink more Ovaltine”
Why in the hell would these fools go to DC. Obviously the real power lies in Bismark ND.
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