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Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?
space.com ^ | march 9, 2017 | Mike Wall

Posted on 03/10/2017 9:04:19 AM PST by plain talk

Bizarre flashes of cosmic light may actually be generated by advanced alien civilizations, as a way to accelerate interstellar spacecraft to tremendous speeds, a new study suggests.

Astronomers have catalogued just 20 or so of these brief, superbright flashes, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first one was detected in 2007. FRBs seem to be coming from galaxies billions of light-years away, but what's causing them remains a mystery.

"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," study co-author Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement Thursday (March 9). "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


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To: Zathras
Firing up the drive system would incinerate entire planets.

Maybe that's how THEY get their jollies.
21 posted on 03/10/2017 9:18:23 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: plain talk

Oh goody...more made up craziness

“Scientists don’t know but let’s speculate “


22 posted on 03/10/2017 9:18:34 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Carl Vehse

“It’s built to last can seen from 1.2 billion light years away!”


23 posted on 03/10/2017 9:19:18 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Nifster

Are you kidding? It could only be aliens. </sarc>


24 posted on 03/10/2017 9:23:25 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


25 posted on 03/10/2017 9:28:59 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Zathras
Because of the inverse square law, it is nearly impossible that this could be a space drive system. Firing up the drive system would incinerate entire planets.

Not if we happen to be bore-sighted right along the axis of the "exhaust," or whatever is generating the force vector that powers the craft.

As far as "incinerating entire planets," maybe, so maybe they have to go out in the middle of galactic "nowhere" before they press the button.

Kind of like our White Sands Missile Range, or Area 51.

26 posted on 03/10/2017 9:30:56 AM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Army Air Corps
"I thought that it was Space battleship Yamato engaging its Wave Motion Engines."

I was actually concerned it might be the Dominion Terran Battlecruiser main weapon, the Yamato CANNON...

Sure dodged a "bullet" on that one! (Pun intended)

27 posted on 03/10/2017 9:31:21 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("What do you call a basement full of liberals? A whine cellar...")
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To: plain talk

Scientists looking for funding with crazy stories...

In France a physicist says the CERN collider discover the Higgs Boson explaining general interaction with the Higgs Field which translates into mass. His claim is that if we reduce the Higgs Field “friction” interaction we can reduce the mass
of any object to zero


28 posted on 03/10/2017 9:33:50 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
😱
29 posted on 03/10/2017 9:39:08 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: plain talk

Wear this shirt and they will leave us alone
30 posted on 03/10/2017 9:58:03 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: plain talk
Space.com's speculation of a brief, powerful RF burst to accelerate a light-sail craft fails a basic test: living organisms are poorly equipped to survive massive, instant accelerations (or decelerations).

Being an occupant of such a ship would be like hitting -- or being hit -- by a brick wall -- traveling at lightspeed...

31 posted on 03/10/2017 10:00:25 AM PST by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

But of course they are. Can’t recall the books I have read that used the detection of some gravity wave or such to warn of aliens coming..........


32 posted on 03/10/2017 10:09:14 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: plain talk

Just as stupid as the idea of powering spacecraft with Earth-based laser beams.


33 posted on 03/10/2017 10:11:18 AM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: plain talk

Could they just be from elderly aliens leaving the turn signal on?


34 posted on 03/10/2017 10:12:01 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Art Bell; Pride in the USA
Ping


35 posted on 03/10/2017 11:33:13 AM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: BenLurkin
Just so long as they aren't headed this way.

Since we saw the flash it means they were headed away from us. But that was a few billion years ago, so they may have made a u-turn by now.

36 posted on 03/10/2017 11:39:13 AM PST by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: plain talk
FRBs seem to be coming from galaxies billions of light-years away, but what's causing them remains a mystery.

And whatever the source it is long gone, having traveled billions of years to come to our attention.

37 posted on 03/10/2017 12:13:09 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Steely Tom

I wonder what spectroscope analysis is or would be regarding FRBs?


38 posted on 03/10/2017 1:30:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JimRed

I would think it’s possible they’re occurring in present time too.


39 posted on 03/10/2017 1:35:55 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
I would think it’s possible they’re occurring in present time too.

We'll know in a coupl'a billion years!

40 posted on 03/10/2017 2:14:27 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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