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posted by martyb on Saturday September 02 2017, @04:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Bzzt-Bzzt dept.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/30/distant-galaxy-sends-out-15-high-energy-radio-bursts/

Breakthrough Listen, an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, has detected 15 brief but powerful radio pulses emanating from a mysterious and repeating source – FRB 121102 – far across the universe.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but largely unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 150 high-energy bursts have been observed coming from the object, which was identified last year as a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

Also at: Universe Today, phys.org, and Newsweek,.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @04:52PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @04:52PM (#562961)

    Where's Tsoukalos when you need him?

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:39PM (9 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:39PM (#563008) Homepage

    If the aliens are smart enough to travel through space then they should have a prime directive.

    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:42PM (8 children)

      by acid andy (1683) on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:42PM (#563011) Homepage Journal

      What's your prime directive, EF?

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:46PM (7 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:46PM (#563012) Homepage

        Kill all the men and take all the women.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:16PM (5 children)

          by Gaaark (41) on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:16PM (#563020) Journal

          I like how this is modded 'Interesting'. 'Fascinating, Captain', maybe. But Interesting? :)

          I'd go for "Kill all the men and take all the good looking nerdy girls between 18 and 25."

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          • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:32PM (1 child)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:32PM (#563026) Homepage

            Well, when this came out it prompted me to look up a great Star Trek: TNG episode "Who Watches the Watchers" [wikia.com] in which a Federation outpost studying a Bronze-age society of proto-Vulcans has its holographic cover blown and the crew of the enterprise has to go into full damage-control mode.

            It's a cool episode because the problem is not solved by force or technology. In fact, Captain Picard dares a motherfucker to shoot him with an arrow and gets hit to prove he's not God.

            That's one thing the prime directive never addressed - a situation in which civilizations were trying to reach out and respond to long-range radio bursts rather than just flying over and beaming down to the place.

            • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:41AM

              by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:41AM (#563101) Homepage

              Meta-comment: Ray Wise was in that episode and also central to that episode was Dr. Palmer.

          • (Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Saturday September 02 2017, @10:05PM (2 children)

            by acid andy (1683) on Saturday September 02 2017, @10:05PM (#563032) Homepage Journal

            Now that would be great if the moderation options were replaced with:

            Fascinating, Captain!
            No. But it is... interesting!
            Illogical, Captain!
            Curious.
            If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
            She canna take much more of this!
            He's dead Jim!

            Maybe next April 1st?

            Shame I couldn't think of one for Kirk.

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            • (Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:05AM (1 child)

              by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:05AM (#563055) Journal

              KHAAAAAANNN!

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              • (Score: 4, Funny) by acid andy on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:39AM

                by acid andy (1683) on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:39AM (#563100) Homepage Journal

                Indeed, Captain.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:21AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:21AM (#563075)

          Except, little know fact, Ethanol_fueled is a woman. This is what happens when extra-stellar species arrive, and cannot figure out the local reproductive strategies. Sad thing, Eth will not realize this until well after his fleshlight gives out. So sad. But at least it stops with him. Or, um, her.

  • (Score: 2) by chewbacon on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:49PM (1 child)

    by chewbacon (1032) on Saturday September 02 2017, @08:49PM (#563013)

    Probably doing a line of coke off a stripper's back. He just strikes me as that type of a fun guy.

    • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:43PM

      by arulatas (3600) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:43PM (#563749)

      So now he is a mushroom?

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:36PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:36PM (#563169) Homepage Journal

    My guess is Greece, since he's Greek.

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