Slightly possible sign of first contact, with mysterious radio wave bursts from outside the galaxy. - Polidicks

"BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human – or alien – technology." Ok, not to jump to conclusions, but this is a mystery. These things seem to follow a pattern, which brings out some interesting theories. [url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153.600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html?full=true#.VRuOaPkvvck[/url]

Seems too good to be aliens.

april first

snip - damn look at the date...

it's a celestial fart

Neutron star playing pranks on us.

improperly-calibrated equipment

Imagine if other sapient life or even the universe itself ended up playing the biggest April Fools' Day prank of all time on us, letting us finally encounter real signs of alien life on the one day per year where we disregard everything as a joke, forgery or other deception. All joking aside, yeah, this is probably an April 1st joke. And even if it isn't fake, only happening to be noticed with this extremely-poor timing, it's probably just some neat natural phenomenon that has jack-shit to do with sapient alien lifeforms, like a new insanely-weird variety of star.

The April 1st thing aside, even if this was true, couldn't it just be an unusual pattern of background radiation?

[QUOTE=Psychokitten;47435239]improperly-calibrated equipment[/QUOTE] Dammit Garrus.

"I wake/I see all/And find it lacking". That's what it will say when it's decoded, just wait.

[QUOTE=TurboSax;47435260]Imagine if other sapient life or even the universe itself ended up playing the biggest April Fools' Day prank of all time on us, letting us finally encounter real signs of alien life on the one day per year where we disregard everything as a joke, forgery or other deception. All joking aside, yeah, this is probably an April 1st joke. And even if it isn't fake, only happening to be noticed with this extremely-poor timing, it's probably just some neat natural phenomenon that has jack-shit to do with sapient alien lifeforms, like a new insanely-weird variety of star.[/QUOTE] "The humans refuse to receive our delegation." "What? Why? We sent down a ship to meet them in person, how can they turn us away? Do they simply not want to join the rest of the galaxy?" "It appears we have arrived on a day where the local custom is to pull pranks and make outrageous, unbelievable statements in an attempt to fool others. They seem to think it's an elaborate ruse. One of them even touched the ambassador's face and remarked how impressive of a mask it was and commended us for an excellent prank, then returned to their business."

Fucking april fools bullshit I hate this day :v:

[QUOTE] If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human – or alien – technology.[/QUOTE] If you look at some things like the strange hexagonal shape on Saturn, or how snowflakes are forming perfect mathematical shapes, I tend to think it is more the former.

[QUOTE=SIRIUS;47435194]april first[/QUOTE]but the article was published March 31st?

The article was technically published on the 31st so it might not be an April fools joke (and if it is, it's a very cruel one). That said, the graph's axes titles are piss poor (the graph in general is pretty shitty) which is a bit dubious; I've not read the article yet though, so I can't really properly comment.

Cosmic gas.

The article was posted yesterday, in fact I shared it on Facebook yesterday. This doesn't look like an April Fools.

The secret message is "Please don't hurt us."

The info seems legit; the actual scientists simply say that an artificial source needs to be considered and that it's more likely something like an unmapped spy satellite from our own planet causing interference. The article is just sensationalizing a bit.

I am retarded. Not stupid.

I remember reading about this, FRB. If it is the same one then the signal origin is in the small magellanic cloud. Also in the article I read like two months ago they were talking about it being evidence of blitzars or quantum gravity not aliens. :v: I'll wait for a more concrete proof than this.

how could we tell if this from an other galaxy also I hope I am not the only one clikcing this link and not getting there hope's up.

Brace yourselves, an Omnious core is heading towards Earth.

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47435515]how could we tell if this from an other galaxy also I hope I am not the only one clikcing this link and not getting there hope's up.[/QUOTE] [url=http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/possible-explanation-for-radio-bursts-meet-the-blitzar/] this[/url] as for how we know, we know by measuring the dispersion of the wavelengths, longer wavelength EM travels slightly slower through electrons in gas and galactic cold plasma clouds. The longer the delay between the arrival of a burst's short and long wavelengths, the more intervening electrons in the clouds of plasma and dust it had passed through and the greater the distance it traveled. [editline]1 april 2015[/editline] Anyone more fluent in the subject did i get it right?

I've seen this movie before, this is when we should start building a space navy, I mean why else would they holler at us across intergalactic space if they didn't want some space navy action?

Strange or history changing things that were published on 31st March, 1st April or 2st April have to be treated as an April Fools, always.

Space weather balloon.

This is no April fools joke though (I hope). The paper they're writing about was submitted to Arxiv the 17 March.

Source paper: [URL]http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05245v2.pdf[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XcEE8mn.png[/IMG] If it's an April fools joke then [B]it's a really elaborate one[/B] that they've been planning for weeks, since this paper is from [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UHcJJNU.png[/IMG] March 17th, revised March 30th.