Posted on 04/14/2010 2:55:48 PM PDT by TaraP
There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.
"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.
The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.
It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
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LMAO........YOU owe me a new screen and keyboard, damn you.....
Obama’s mentor???
Wow. Talk about being proactive.....
It is the Mothership at last.
“(((( Palin 2012 ))))”
Yeah, but what about his "give our space technology to Islamic countries" mandate?
Jus some Ham running California Killowatt.
bflr
Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
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Obummer dispatches ACORN in Russian space vehicle to make sure it gets counted in census as a cluster of nebulous Democrats.
(((Hey, Earth, can you tell the guy with the ears to shut the heck up already???)))
Fear not, fellow Earthlings, -It is merely Obummer`s new FCC propaganda transmitter for complete WiFi control of all Internet commmunications in the universe.
“louie... are you ready for the mothership”?
LLS
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LLS
“Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control.”
Quick, Tax it. Retro active to last May.
or
Fairness doctrine? We need to require the planet to “equal access”.
or
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Thats what it is.....none of these guys can copy CW worth a flip. It’s only 30 wpm.
We'll be fine as long as the transmission is not intercepted...
"We are the Priests Of the Temples of Syrinx. All the gifts of life. Are held within our walls."
Yep. One day CW skills will be like gold... that day may come soon.
LLS
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