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Alien radio signals detected repeating with a regular 16-day cycle
SKY News ^ | February 10, 2020

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alien; astronomy; canada; chime; fastradiobursts; frb; frbs; science; space; xplanets
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What if they are transmitting from a planet with a 16day day, or 16 day rotation?


21 posted on 02/11/2020 9:28:23 AM PST by z3n
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Most of the ones I heard on the shortwave were in Spanish, I always assumed they were transmitting from Cuba.


22 posted on 02/11/2020 9:28:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steely Tom

Bursts of Alien Radio TransmissionS.
BARTS.
Some are louder than others
Mega BARTS.
Variations:
Blue Darters and Twizzlers.


23 posted on 02/11/2020 9:29:13 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cool stuff.


24 posted on 02/11/2020 9:29:16 AM PST by Dacula
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To: dfwgator

Yep.


25 posted on 02/11/2020 9:29:45 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: Karma_Sherab

I think Wal-mart was on mars back then...

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Well, duh.

The Mars Pioneers will need somewhere to go to get cheap stuff for their new homes when they arrive on Mars.

Walmart is the seed from which the Human Galactic Empire grows.


26 posted on 02/11/2020 9:30:14 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My theory:
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A small neutron star that produces the signal is revolving around a much more massive star.....every 16 days.


27 posted on 02/11/2020 9:31:26 AM PST by gandalftb
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To: All

We aren’t alone.................


28 posted on 02/11/2020 9:32:14 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: z3n
What if they are transmitting from a planet with a 16day day, or 16 day rotation?

Bingo, we have a winner!

29 posted on 02/11/2020 9:32:20 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Steely Tom

We are in the galactic boonies!


30 posted on 02/11/2020 9:33:07 AM PST by Reily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slowest Pulsar on record?


31 posted on 02/11/2020 9:33:33 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: All

They’re coming to take us away...Haha..Heehee...


32 posted on 02/11/2020 9:34:39 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Grimmy

They dont turn off and on, but the period of the rotation (or a harmonic of it) is revealed in the period of the burst. Think of a spinning and nutating top, and the burst peak is nutating back towards us every 16 days. Absent atmospheric friction, motion in space can be very predictable and repeatable, and takes millions of years to ‘wind down’.


33 posted on 02/11/2020 9:35:42 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You're listening to Galactic Top 40 and I'm your host, Messak Yesac on Rigel 7. Now we've come to our LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG Distance Dedication. It comes from a Gorg in the Beta Quadrant who writes, Dear Messak…


34 posted on 02/11/2020 9:35:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: neverevergiveup

It always pays to read the article before posting the obvious.


35 posted on 02/11/2020 9:37:54 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 21twelve

Scientists so far have recorded the sounds to be transmitting ; ‘Ah blah es pan ol’’. Further research is continuing...


36 posted on 02/11/2020 9:38:01 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: z3n
Or it could be microwave oven doors being opened.
Wiki FRB - see "2010": In 2010 there was a report of 16 similar FRB pulses, clearly of terrestrial origin, detected by the Parkes radio telescope and given the name perytons. In 2015 perytons were shown to be generated when microwave oven doors were opened during a heating cycle, with detected emission being generated by the microwave oven's magnetron tube as it was being powered off.

37 posted on 02/11/2020 9:38:42 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

-PJ

38 posted on 02/11/2020 9:38:58 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bull crap. They’re natural in origin. This is not ET the Extra Terrestrial Fantasy...


39 posted on 02/11/2020 9:42:36 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Stargate is probably down again.


40 posted on 02/11/2020 9:43:35 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Ban Carbon Dioxide! It's twice as bad as Carbon Monoxide!!!)
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