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posted by on Thursday April 02 2015, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the leave-a-message-after-the-beep dept.

BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human – or alien – technology.

Telescopes have been picking up so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) since 2001. They last just a few milliseconds and erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month. Ten have been detected so far, most recently in 2014, when the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, caught a burst in action for the first time. The others were found by sifting through data after the bursts had arrived at Earth. No one knows what causes them, but the brevity of the bursts means their source has to be small – hundreds of kilometers across at most – so they can't be from ordinary stars. And they seem to come from far outside the galaxy.

The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn't match what we know about cosmic physics.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 03 2015, @05:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 03 2015, @05:43AM (#166033)

    Which scientists found this pattern? Were they asked to find this pattern?

    You see, the powers that be are slowly letting their human subjects in on the whole Alien thing so we would not be surprised when the Aliens land in the middle of multiple human cities, and their landings cannot be covered up or ignored any longer, and this information cannot be controlled.

    It has been a long time that they have been using Alien technology on us (mind reading, mind control, advanced weapons and much, much more).

    This is no joke, and there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of smart, intelligent people who interacted with Aliens. What we human "subjects" should be doing is telling the authorities to let us in on all this information and technology, because it must not be a small group of people who own this planet, rather its us who do. The planet belongs to its inhabitants, not some shadowy group, and certainly not some red shield group.