Posted on 08/02/2018 8:05:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A new radio telescope in Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs).
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia detected the first-ever FRB at frequencies below 700 MHz on July 25, a signal named FRB 180725A.
As you might guess, FRBs are milliseconds-long bursts of radio emissions that come from some unknown source across the universe. They're one of the newer cosmic mysteries around, having been first detected only about a decade ago. Possible explanations include bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, highly advanced alien civilizations.
The CHIME radio telescope at dusk in British Columbia. Andre Recnik A new radio telescope in Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs). The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia detected the first-ever FRB at frequencies below 700 MHz on July 25, a signal named FRB 180725A. As you might guess, FRBs are milliseconds-long bursts of radio emissions that come from some unknown source across the universe. They're one of the newer cosmic mysteries around, having been first detected only about a decade ago. Possible explanations include bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, highly advanced alien civilizations.
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The announcement also notes that additional FRBs have been found in the past week at frequencies as low as 400 MHz and early indications suggest they aren't coming from known sources on Earth.
So far only one FRB has been observed repeating and researchers say whatever is sending that signal across the universe is stupendously powerful.
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“Hail to Vega!”
“Once you go green.....”
Contact
God giving California a head’s up before the “big one”??
BS! If magnetars and exploding black holes are examples of the power supply needed to emit such signals capable of being detectable on earth, no way the signals come from another civilization... unless such civilization is gigantic and powerful on a scale beyond human comprehension.
“Drink more Ovaltine”
Dang, you beat me
Indeed!
I know! I looked at the thread and didn’t see it, so I jumped.
I tried it in morse code first, but it didn’t look that great in preview.
Or the microwave in the break area...
“If the b-—h is green there must be something wrong with the p——y.” - Eddie Murphy
Whew! For a minute there I thought we’d get some poetry.
“Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” is a poem by Grunthos the Flatulent.
During a reading of the poem, 4 of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception.
Loved that movie
It was a episode of Jon Pertwee’s “Dr Who?”.
TV show called “Supernova” already did it.
Contact.
“A big booming voice from the sky” is what you heard Dr. Garroway . . . great movie!
-PJ
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