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To: Realism; Quix; Star Traveler

This started to happen in Space beginning in 2006 with NASA

A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars. The balloon-borne ARCADE instrument discovered this cosmic static (white band, top) on its July 2006 flight. The noise is six times louder than expected. Astronomers have no idea why.

Scientists hear mystery boom from space
Radio noise from distant cosmos is six times louder than 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.

A team led by Kogut detected the signal with a balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Diffuse Emission).

In July 2006, the instrument was launched from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and reached an altitude of about 120,000 feet (36,500 meters),


27 posted on 03/10/2009 3:25:50 PM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP

MORE

MORE UNUSUAL

signs in the heavens, obviously.

Thanks


28 posted on 03/10/2009 3:28:35 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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TODAY FROM SPEACEWEATHER..

COSMOS IS FALLING: The first fragments of shattered satellite Cosmos 2251 are about to reenter Earth’s atmosphere. According to US Strategic Command, fragment 1993-036PX will reenter on March 12th, followed by 1993-036KW on March 28th and 1993-036MC on March 30th. These are probably centimeter-sized pieces that will disintegrate in the atmosphere, posing no threat to people on the ground.

Cosmos 2251 was shattered on Feb. 10th when it collided with another satellite, Iridium 33. Cosmos 2251 possessed about one and a half times more mass than Iridium 33 and to date appears to have produced more than twice the number of fragments. Click on the image to view a map of the debris orbits:


29 posted on 03/10/2009 3:32:08 PM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP; Realism; Quix

This quote you have, says — “A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos...”

You do realize that this “noise” is not noise in the sense that you or I hear with out ears. It’s not noise in that sense. It’s only “radio frequency noise”. They’re using terminology that one could possibly confuse with conventional “noise” that one hears with their ears.

Also — “Scientists hear mystery boom from space”

This, once again, is not really a “boom” in the sense that we hear a boom, with our ears. It’s only the “terminology” to get across the idea of a big increase in radio frequency waves hitting the instrument. It’s a “boom” in that sense.

And, instruments that detect this, can be “assigned” a “sound” so that we can “hear it” — but we’re really not hearing it, actually. What is happening is that we have created the sound, so that our ears can have some “representation” of it. It’s *not* the actual “noise” that is going on. It’s a sound produced from the instrumentation...

So, this is talking about something that we would never even know was there — as “humans” — using our normal senses. We only know of it existing as we have instruments that can measure frequencies in the range of what is coming from this area of space. If not for those specialized instruments, we would never even know they existed, and people on the ground would know nothing of it.

BUT, aside from that fact, of them being radio frequency waves, totally out of the range of perception of human beings — there are strange things that go on in the universe, things that people have been totally ignorant of — for centuries, simply because they had nothing to detect them. Now we’re able to detect things which have been there, but simply never known.

Now, while there may be a few “new things” — I really seriously doubt that there are “new things” in space, in the universe. These things have been there all along — it’s just that people never knew they were there.

And in addition to that, even if something “shows up” that wasn’t showing on instruments in the recent past — I believe it would be nothing more than either a “cycle’ that waxes and wanes, or something that was in another region of space (like a body that is moving through space) and simply is in our region of space now.

I wouldn’t be “looking too intently” for any particular set of “signs in the heavens” — because then people tend to jump on everything that shows up as a “sign” of something... :-)

If there are going to be signs that are the ones that the Bible is talking about, it will be *very obvious* and undeniable in retrospect, after it has shown itself — and people, in general, will recognize it as such, across the board. Short of having a general recognition and as something that is indeed something amazing (impacting people’s everyday lives), I wouldn’t think it has too much significance, other than something of scientific interest and understanding how the universe works.

Now, in talking about this, I’m only talking specifically about what you’ve just reported in that one post, and not anything else that you’ve posted.

In other words, this particular phenomenon described, has nothing to do with sounds which are heard “by the ears” in the atmosphere.

For sounds produced in the atmosphere, it takes some kind of compression of the atmosphere to produce the “sound”. That’s usually some kind of “physical object” moving at speed and compressing the air in front of its movement (or some other phenomenon of the object which produces “noise” through other movement of the object [say, just for an example, the movement of propellers, on an airplane which compresses the atmosphere and produces the noise you hear]).

And radio waves don’t have any “mass” to be able to compress the atmosphere and thus produce the “noise” that we hear. If radio waves were ever to do that (if they could, and I’m not convinced if it could even happen, even in a huge amount of radio waves) — in such quantity as to be able to compress the atmosphere, the amount would be so huge, it would probably *fry* all life on the planet and we would all be dead as a result... LOL...


30 posted on 03/10/2009 5:06:50 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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