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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."
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; space
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To: plain talk
Yes, when they go in warp drive the sudden burst of energy leaves a cosmic chemtrail.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:06:05 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
To: plain talk
Just so long as they aren’t headed this way.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:06:14 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
To: plain talk
Quix would have been on this like white on rice in a snowstorm.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:07:14 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: plain talk
It could also be Space Godzilla coughing up a fur-ball.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:07:58 AM PST
by
caligatrux
(Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
To: Army Air Corps
I kinda miss that guy. Can’t find him on the net to see how he is doing.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:08:52 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Watching Obama tap dance.)
To: plain talk
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:09:48 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: plain talk
To: caligatrux
I thought that it was Space battleship Yamato engaging its Wave Motion Engines.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:11:43 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: plain talk
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.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:11:45 AM PST
by
Zathras
To: plain talk
It's fleets of Pak protectors coming to wipe us out
To: plain talk
Now that we know where they are, we should go conquer them and steal their water.
To: Zathras
not if they were sprayed with fire retardant
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:13:55 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: plain talk
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:14:51 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: plain talk; TXnMA; spodefly; Da Coyote; pfflier; ProtectOurFreedom; mrsmith; hoosierham; cpdiii
Someone already suggested this, exactly 30 days ago.
Modesty inhibits me from saying who.
Source (post #54).
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:15:11 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: Born to Conserve
To: Army Air Corps
It could also be God shining a flashlight through the big black curtain to see if any of us are still alive in here.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:15:45 AM PST
by
caligatrux
(Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
To: bar sin·is·ter
LOL!! Now that would make a hilarious commercial with this story. Or maybe this flashlight.
To: plain talk
“They aren’t claiming that FRBs are indeed caused by aliens.”
Okay, they’re setting us up for that meme, right?
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:16:35 AM PST
by
Stosh
To: Red Badger
LOL, I always click on these threads hoping for this and am rarely disappointed.
Awesome!
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:17:26 AM PST
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
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