Posted on 02/11/2020 9:17:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Astronomers have never before seen fast radio bursts being emitted in such a regular pattern, and still don't know their origin.
Astronomers have detected alien signals - that is, signals from a foreign galaxy - being emitted in an unusually regular 16-day cycle.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not in and of themselves unusual - the first was detected in 2007 - but previous observations have shown them to be mostly emitted at random.
While there have been some bursts which repeated, as astronomers discovered previously, they have never been seen repeating in such a steady cycle.
The origin of FRBs hasn't been established yet, although the dominant theories regarding them suggest the signals are produced by rapidly rotating bodies such as neutron stars or black holes.
Researchers studying data from the radio telescope used by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) found the FRB signals arrived on Earth up to twice an hour for four days before suddenly stopping, only to start up again twelve days later.
Its origin was located within a medium-sized spiral galaxy about 500 million light-years away, making it the closest FRB discovered to date.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Far, far away?..................
This is it.
D R I N K Y O U R O V A L I N E
Send More Chuck Berry
Probably transmitting the cure for Cornavirus. (It’s a TRAP!)
FRBs are the RF noise left behind by an enormous release of energy at a great distance. Probably a teenager letting loose on the warp drive in a deserted part of the universe. We just happened to be bore-sighted on his exhaust axis.
So these originated long before Adam and Eve walked our earth.
I would find interesting to see what places in space are dated like 4000 to 6000 light years ago. Time wise corresponding with God’s creation of man.
Yes, because no naturally occurring physical phenomena ever occur at regular cycles .. What if there is a continuously emitting celestial body that is blocked by other orbiting celestial bodies almost continuously - except for a small period every 16 days?
On-Off every 16 days is a rather crude modulation scheme.
If the stuff is coming at us from “fast rotating bodies such as neutron stars and black holes” then why aren’t they constant signals?
Do the neutron stars and black holes turn on and off? Do they stop rapidly rotating? Do they hop around and shoot their signals at other places in the galactic map?
Also doubt earth days have anything to do with the ‘cycle’
That’s just our perspective getting in the way.
Haven’t we learned anything? And that’s how the film ALIEN started. Nostromo’s crew taken out of hypersleep because Mother (the ship’s computer) came across the distress call on LV-426...
Ut oh, it’s re-broadcasts of Air America Radio.
Obviously not friendly.
ET call home
Well played sir!
Numbers stations give me the creeps.
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