Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?

space.com ^ | march 9, 2017 | Mike Wall

[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."

[tophat9000]

I will up you one

[Rebelbase]

“Yes, when they go in warp drive the sudden burst of energy leaves a cosmic chemtrail.”

So it was some other alien civilization punking the Vulcans to make First Contact?

[TigersEye]

His claim is that if we reduce the Higgs Field “friction” interaction we can reduce the mass of any object to zero

The next weight loss craze is just on the (event) horizon!

[Elsie]

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.

What have I been tellin' ya??!!??

[Elsie]

Earth Women are Easy!

[Elsie]

I’d be happy to reduce MY mass by merely 20%!!!

[Elsie]

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

[ladyjane]

Earth Girls are Easy

Geena Davis

[Elsie]

One crazy movie!

[JudgemAll]

lol

when the french prime minister asked what the heck the super colider funding accomplishes, a physicist told him “weight loss”.

[TigersEye]

Funding was sure to follow!

[Elsie]

Flash source finally identified!!

[Professional Engineer]

The Mote in God’s Eye

Niven and Pournelle 1974