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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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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:16PM (5 children)
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)
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
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)
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.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:05AM (1 child)
KHAAAAAANNN!
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(Score: 4, Funny) by acid andy on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:39AM
Indeed, Captain.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?