Can't wait for it to end up being something extremely boring and ordinary again or something that can be flawlessly explained as a natural phenomena empirically.
"SETI scientists spot 72 signals 'from alien galaxy' 3bn light years away"
"Scientists do not yet know what causes the mysterious fast radio bursts"
My god what a headline
Dr Siemion added: "These new techniques are already improving our sensitivity to signals from extraterrestrial technologies."
Ah, yes. Those extraterrestrial technologies that we are known to be actively studying, right now.
This whole article is garbage. It's somehow trying to establish FRB as alien signals when they could very well be from stars collapsing for all we know. The galaxy in question being 3 billion lightyears away would mean that these signals are still spread extremely thin compared to their origin. I am none to learnt in this field, but wouldn't the source for these signals, for them to be detected at this range, need to have energy output that would likely destroy whatever civilization sent them?
So whatever sent had to have done it 3 billion years ago.
Ancient aliens!
This is the signal of the incoming invasion my master told me about.
Not quite, the light-distance and actual distance can be different, in essence the galaxy itself could be 3 billion ly away but the light got here in less than 3 billion years because of the expanding universe
Someone left the microwave on again probably
God they really can’t throw these headlines around when I’ve been binging The X-Files.
Could this be connected to the FBI locking down the Observatory and the sighting of the unexplained bright possible supernova last week?
yes, quite a lot more, like why are we serious about space marines when space is already filled with stuff that kills us and did they rule out cosmic barrito microwave background radiation from the kitchen this time
My understanding is a lot of the signals would be possible for civilizations that are able to produce/use dyson spheres.
The bigger issue is what reason would a civilization need to broadcast radio signals that are strong enough to receive 3 billion light years away? It would be an extreme waste of energy, and (imo) no sane civilization would paint a target on itself like that. Especially for communication, I'm more than sure such a civilization would have moved on from radio signals to something capable of higher bandwidth, such as lasers. Even here on earth, we're already looking into lasers for space communications.
After the microwave incident they moved the microwave to the next building over. This time it was John's XBOX 3 doors down the hall.
We're living in the buildup to a hollywood Sci-fi disaster
Gamma ray bursts for everyone!
Radio bursts? So its black holes ejecting crap as usual. 72 is quite a lot though, that's the really unusual part. If its 72 supermassive black holes all shitting out bursts from a single galaxy I would lose my fucking mind, that sounds NUTS
Don't pulsars also emit fast radio bursts? Then again, I assume the signal would be very dissipated from another galaxy, so black hole seems to be the only natural explanation I can think of.
This is also true, forgot about that. Could definitely be strong pulsars, those things are ridiculously powerful, but 3bn light years away is quite the distance to cross for them. We only recently discovered pulsars outside of our own galaxy in 2015:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-fermi-satellite-detects-first-gamma-ray-pulsar-in-another-galaxy
There are honestly only 3 things we can come up with that cause FRB's: Black holes, neutron stars, and really advanced alien species. The last one isn't likely though, especially since we've seen similar behavior from both black holes and neutron stars already.
It's like they say, if you hear hoofbeats, it's probably not zebras.
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