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Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP10 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?

Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian11 Mar 2017 12:14 a.m. PST

Or moving away from us?

Gunfreak Supporting Member of TMP11 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.

jah195611 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 Deleted by Moderator.

Bowman11 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?

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP11 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!

Bowman12 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?

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP12 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. grin

(Okay, seriously, I hold that the whole thing has to do with phenomena like neutron stars, but what the hey… wink)

Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian12 Mar 2017 8:46 p.m. PST

Maybe they're alarm clocks, and somebody forgot to shut one off… evil grin

Bowman13 Mar 2017 4:28 a.m. PST

Or that they are trying to communicate with anyone close enough.

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