A New FRB Signal Has Buzzed Nearly 2,000 Times in Just Two Months, Raising a Mystery

Science Alert ^ | 24 September 2022 By | MICHELLE STARR

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[dljordan]

They live here. Just ask Bill Gates.

[BigEdLB]

Is this Gates without his mask?

[FrankRizzo890]

FRBs are fine, could be just random space noise. Now, the day when one REPEATS? That’s a game changer.

[George J. Jetso]

ET phone home line 1.

[beethovenfan]

Sure it wasn’t an FJB signal?

[Migraine]

Astronomy is over my head.

[Ezekiel]

If FRB 20201124A is indeed from one of these wild cosmic beasts, it's looking like an unusual specimen.

How to Turn Your Furby Evil

[minnesota_bound]

It is the coffee maker in the nearby cafeteria...

[Honest Nigerian]

From the article:
The growing count suggests that there’s some vital piece of information we may be missing, some hole in our understanding of FRB magnetars, how they form, and the locations in which they reside.
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In English this means the science is not settled.
Of course, only a hick or a redneck (but I repeat my self?) would say that./s

[Dutch Boy]

Even worse is one that counts down.

[Openurmind]

I know one thing... They better keep their hands on the wheel and start aiming everything out the FRONT WINDSHIELD instead of sight seeing out the side windows or where we have already been.

As a solar system we are on a collision course with who knows what. A train wreck waiting to happen.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Well, this past week I learned that a “magnetar” is actually a portmanteau.

A form of contraction, where the words do not necessarily follow each other in ordinary use. Eg: “smog” = smoke + fog is a portmanteau. “Don’t” is not, because “not” is very frequently found after the word “do”, and, there is not enough left of the word “not”to qualify as a portmanteau.

“Comservpac” is portmanteau.

Now I can rest easy, knowing that it has been a productive weekend.

[MayflowerMadam]

“portmanteau” is itself a portmanteau.

[catbertz]

They’re warning us that the 2000 election was a trap and George W is an alien and a moron. Unfortunately the signal took awhile to get here due to paperwork and bad traffic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[BroJoeK]

Migraine: "Astronomy is over my head."

Years ago, I took an astronomy class in college -- thought it might include some stargazing with pretty coeds. ;-)

Naw... it was all math; no coeds & I didn't do so well...

[MHGinTN]

But do you know what a palimpsest is?

[Migraine]

While my comment was a play on words, I see your point. As a matter of fact we had an observatory on campus and it was a real treat to be next in line up the ladder to the telescope behind a coed wearing a dress :)