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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected
Yahoo News ^ | Jan 7th, 2009

Posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:14 AM PST by TaraP

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it. But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected. There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; pullmyfinger
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To: Tolkien
They recorded the horrifying sound, warning, this is disturbing ...

Space Roar
61 posted on 01/08/2009 12:07:19 PM PST by Scythian
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To: Tolkien

They decoded the sound, the message is repeating and says over and over again ...

I have become death destroyer of worlds ....


62 posted on 01/08/2009 12:10:05 PM PST by Scythian
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To: TaraP

They must have commenced “Operation Vacusuck.”


63 posted on 01/08/2009 12:15:24 PM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: TaraP

I must’ve slept though it. Didn’t hear a thing.


64 posted on 01/08/2009 12:20:00 PM PST by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: TaraP

It’s the Big Bang echoing off the far wall...


65 posted on 01/08/2009 12:22:54 PM PST by laker_dad
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To: Squidpup
God has finally had enough apparently!

Think you're on to something. About a month ago I saw a bumper sticker that said "God's back, and Boy, is He mad!"

66 posted on 01/08/2009 12:48:37 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: TaraP

News flash: Scientists discover something they did not expect. Film at 11.

In other news, dog bites man ...


67 posted on 01/08/2009 2:08:31 PM PST by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends become dispensationalists.")
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To: TaraP
I think Fox had said something about an Eta Carinae’s explosion 11/11/09

At 7500 LY distance, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it.

68 posted on 01/08/2009 2:11:53 PM PST by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends become dispensationalists.")
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69 posted on 01/08/2009 2:20:53 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: weegee
You are not supposed to hear a pineapple scream in space.


70 posted on 01/08/2009 3:01:00 PM PST by Daffynition ("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
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To: Tolkien
"What if aliens are not friendly?"

If they in fact exist, and if our own planet's history is any indication of how things turn out when advanced civilization meets primitive society, we are toast. I fully expect they won't be friendly at all. The Europeans didn't sail across the storm-tossed Atlantic to the Americas just to shake hands and say "Howdy!"
71 posted on 01/08/2009 4:42:01 PM PST by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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To: TaraP

72 posted on 01/08/2009 5:45:46 PM PST by P.O.E. (Big Government is the opiate of the masses.)
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To: fish hawk
It was one of these.
73 posted on 01/08/2009 5:49:33 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Busy night.
 
Catastrophism
 
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74 posted on 01/08/2009 6:06:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (First 2009 Profile update Tuesday, January 6, 2009___________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dead

BWaaaaaa! you owe me keyboard


75 posted on 01/09/2009 1:43:36 PM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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