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

[url]http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245[/url] [editline]1st April 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=EcksDee;47436095]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 it's a really elaborate one 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.[/QUOTE] Wow what are the chances for us to post about the same thing at the same time. Alien influences??

April 1st sucks. It's like everyone up and decides that they can be FOX News for a day

what the fuck is this [quote]This article appeared in print under the headline "Cosmic radio plays an alien tune" Keeping up with the Kardashevs THE first search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Frank Drake's Project Ozma, looked for radio broadcasts from hypothetical aliens in the 1960s. Around the same time, cosmologist Nikolai Kardashev began to wonder what a truly advanced civilisation's radio messages might be like. His main conclusion: more powerful than ours. In a 1963 paper called "Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations", he grouped ETs into three categories according to how big their broadcasts could be. The labels stuck, and SETI scientists still use them today. A signal from a Kardashev Type I society uses a planet's worth of energy, pulling from all its resources - solar, thermal, volcanic, tectonic, hydrodynamic, oceanic, and so on. A Type II civilisation has a star's worth of output at its disposal. It would have to capture all its sun's radiation, throw material into a black hole and suck up the radiation, or travel to many planets and strip them of resources. A Kardashev Type III civilisation controls the power output of a galaxy like the Milky Way. If a galaxy was home to just one Type III society, it would be completely dark except for the waste infrared radiation (heat) blowing from their massive engineering projects.[/quote] in the source [editline]1st April 2015[/editline] I SWEAR I READ THAT AS KARDASHIANS I SWEAR TO GOD THAT SAID KARDASHIANS

[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47435889]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?[/QUOTE] Too bad building Star Wars-style spaceships will be a pipe dream until we can launch spaceships reliably into space without using boosters and such. Not to mention we also need to get the thing back to Earth as well.

I glanced through the article, seems they are implying that it's man-made. And it seems that if they're correct that it's man-made then any FRB could be dismissed as man made.

I hope this is what I saw a bunch of news headline posters outside a church for today. They all said "ASTRONOMER FINDS EVIDENCE FOR GOD".

[QUOTE=ProtoMob;47436159]Too bad building Star Wars-style spaceships will be a pipe dream until we can launch spaceships reliably into space without using boosters and such. Not to mention we also need to get the thing back to Earth as well.[/QUOTE] Or we could not be retards about it, and just build the ships in space. Like why build a space battleship on solid ground? There's more raw materials in space, I bet we could handle them with greater ease not needing to worry about gravity and shit. Still though we'd really need an impressive power plant for the ships before hand so really we're not doing jack until we get nuclear fusion sorted out.

[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47436222]Or we could not be retards about it, and just build the ships in space. Like why build a space battleship on solid ground? There's more raw materials in space, I bet we could handle them with greater ease not needing to worry about gravity and shit. Still though we'd really need an impressive power plant for the ships before hand so really we're not doing jack until we get nuclear fusion sorted out.[/QUOTE] You've got to get all those resources and all those people and all those supplies up there though and that's also going to be hard as fuck. Not all the resources for a ship can just be plucked from an asteroid.

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;47436244]You've got to get all those resources and all those people and all those supplies up there though and that's also going to be hard as fuck. Not all the resources for a ship can just be plucked from an asteroid.[/QUOTE] What is there that a ship would require that can't be found in an asteroid? Also why would people need to be involved, there's nothing to stop us from just automating the process, sure we'll need people for oversight but really if push came to shove we'd be able to pull it off. Especially when only an idiot would build a space battleship instead of a swarm of several million missiles.

If this is an April fool's joke, then it's not a very funny one.

Why does April Fool's have to shatter my dreams

Its not April fools.

Yeah really. [B][I][U]LADIES AND GENTS THE ORIGINAL PAPER WAS POSTED ON MARCH 17TH, THIS IS NOT APRIL FOOLS.[/U][/I][/B]

It annoys me that people didn't even bother to read the date the article was published and have just agreed amongst themselves that it was an april fools

[QUOTE=Baron von Hax;47436512]It annoys me that people didn't even bother to read the date the article was published and have just agreed amongst themselves that it was an april fools[/QUOTE] One should always at least check out the original paper that these popular scientific articles are based on. Even if you aint understand shit, you gain a new appreciation for scientists in general.

Damnit people, this isn't an April Fools joke...

Honestly while this is really intriguing by sheer likelihood it's more probable to be a undiscovered natural physical phenomenon happening in our own galaxy, or it's a manmade anomaly that is interfering with results. Like "might be signs of alien life" unfortunately is one of the least likely outcomes here

If this is aliens, it's kind of shit that the first signal we've ever received is outside of our galaxy, so whatever sent them to us is probably dead or far evolved beyond the point they were at by now.

Swamp baloons from outer space in cahoots with obama, the lizard people and Israel!

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;47436995]Honestly while this is really intriguing by sheer likelihood it's more probable to be a undiscovered natural physical phenomenon happening in our own galaxy, or it's a manmade anomaly that is interfering with results. Like "might be signs of alien life" unfortunately is one of the least likely outcomes here[/QUOTE] FRBs can be caused by number of things. I didn't read the paper but I don't really think this FRB would be overly different from the rest. It's not like pulsars and quasars haven't been mistakenly reported by the press as ET making a call.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;47436995]Honestly while this is really intriguing by sheer likelihood it's more probable to be a undiscovered natural physical phenomenon happening in our own galaxy, or it's a manmade anomaly that is interfering with results. Like "might be signs of alien life" unfortunately is one of the least likely outcomes here[/QUOTE] Exactly. The conclusion is basically, there's a 5/10000 chance for it to randomly occur, which makes it more likely to be artificial. Now artificial means it's either from us or it's from something else. Given that only one or two radio telescopes have discovered FRBs and the fact that they've detected much more "fake" FRBs then I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that it may be humans after all.

It's spacewhales the FRBs come from their blowholes

Why don't we just rename April 1 to That One Day Humanity Collectively Crushes It's Own Dreams For Some Fucking Mystical Reason Every Year.

Why dont people understand this isnt an April fools joke...

[QUOTE=Pilot1215;47439868]Why dont people understand this isnt an April fools joke...[/QUOTE] Because most people tend to skim the article and this thread was posted on April 1st

[QUOTE=SIRIUS;47435194]april first[/QUOTE] Is my Birthday.