Parzival | 10 Mar 2017 9:16 p.m. PST |
Yep, that's one explanation being seriously offered for these recently detected anomalies: link Which implies, by the way, that the imagined ships would be on their way here, if we are able to detect what would be a somewhat focused energy beam, yes? |
Editor in Chief Bill | 11 Mar 2017 12:14 a.m. PST |
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Gunfreak | 11 Mar 2017 4:35 a.m. PST |
Oh no Klingons are coming to conquer us, and they are coming in space carracks with dahar master Columbus at the helm. |
jah1956 | 11 Mar 2017 6:09 a.m. PST |
So more than a billion years ago some giant alien space ships blew up in a Galaxy far far away. I am so excited this is almost as exciting as the British corn laws or . |
Bowman | 11 Mar 2017 5:22 p.m. PST |
Sounds fascinating. But the article is really short on information. How is this different from atypical neutron star or pulsar bursts? |
Parzival | 11 Mar 2017 7:59 p.m. PST |
I don't know. Here's another article about FRBs: link So apparently they're a rather newly discovered phenomena, first detected in 2007. Of course, that doesn't tell us how long they've been going on, only how long we've known of them. They're certainly new to me! |
Bowman | 12 Mar 2017 6:03 a.m. PST |
New to me too. Do I have this right?: Out of all the FRBs , only FRB 121102 is repeating its flashes? The others were just giant "one-off " single pulses? |
Parzival | 12 Mar 2017 8:08 p.m. PST |
That's how I read it, too. Which naturally raises the question why don't the others repeat, and are they the same phenomena? If a possible explanation (however wild) is that they are spacecraft propulsion systems, then as long as we're wildly speculating, why not weapons? Maybe we're seeing an ancient intragalactic war, and FRB 121102 is winning, 'cause it's on full automatic. (Okay, seriously, I hold that the whole thing has to do with phenomena like neutron stars, but what the hey… ) |
Editor in Chief Bill | 12 Mar 2017 8:46 p.m. PST |
Maybe they're alarm clocks, and somebody forgot to shut one off… |
Bowman | 13 Mar 2017 4:28 a.m. PST |
Or that they are trying to communicate with anyone close enough. |