WOW, they likely found signals from ET!

[SaltyNuts]

http://www.sciencealert.com/confirm...stronomers-really-are-coming-from-outer-space

Wholly crap, what a great period to live in!

 

[Ken g6]

"Likely" is way overstating the case.

 

[Thebobo]

yea something like this would be a bummer.

"But the fact that we now know the answer lies in space is a big deal. It might sound obvious, but let's not forget that back in 1998, researchers thought they had discovered a new type of radio signal coming from space, only to figure out 17 years later that it was coming from a microwave oven in their research facility."

 

[Zanovar]

Jesus christ it took them 17 years to realise it was when they were heating up their coffees and frozen curries lol .

 

[dud]

Is that site reputable?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Big jump from confirming that FRB's come from outside our gravity well to 'CONFIRMED, ALIENS'.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Forget about the alien signals, the real story is about the microwave that lasted for 17 years.

 

[Fritzo]

Jesus christ it took them 17 years to realise it was when they were heating up their coffees and frozen curries lol .

It was difficult to locate. The microwave only caused a signal when someone opened the door while it was still running. How do you track THAT down?

 

[Zanovar]

It was difficult to locate. The microwave only caused a signal when someone opened the door while it was still running. How do you track THAT down?

Dunno ask the aliens.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The last time this happened, it turned out to be the microwave in the lunch room. Don't hold your breath.

 

[mindless1]

http://www.sciencealert.com/confirm...stronomers-really-are-coming-from-outer-space

Wholly crap, what a great period to live in!

Maybe.

Their conclusions back up findings from earlier this year, when researchers were able to pinpoint the source of a FRB to a tiny dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light-years from Earth.

Might've been better to live 6 billion years ago, develop huge spacecraft that can travel at the speed of light, then pack our offspring for the 3 billion year trip so their descendants get there when the signals where sent. In movies they just put everyone to sleep but 3 billion years is a long, long time to sleep.

 

[Homerboy]

Jesus christ it took them 17 years to realise it was when they were heating up their coffees and frozen curries lol .

something something Obama wiretapping something joke.

 

[BUTCH1]

Forget about the alien signals, the real story is about the microwave that lasted for 17 years.

I've got a Tappan "space-saver" microwave oven from 1983, I paid $190 for it back then, at 700 watts it was the most powerful model they sold. I use it on a daily basis, I did have to replace a diode back in '93, but other than that it still works fine.

 

[BUTCH1]

Maybe.



Might've been better to live 6 billion years ago, develop huge spacecraft that can travel at the speed of light, then pack our offspring for the 3 billion year trip so their descendants get there when the signals where sent. In movies they just put everyone to sleep but 3 billion years is a long, long time to sleep.

Yea, that's my take on this as well, if it was from a closer location I'd be more optimistic but 3 F-ing BILLION light-years away?, it has to be something with black holes or other natural causes IMO. The amount of power to send a signal that far boggles the mind. Since it appears it's not modulated with any information that alone suggests it's not ET reaching out.

 

[Ruptga]

Is that site reputable?

Is this a real question?

 

[Crono]

It was difficult to locate. The microwave only caused a signal when someone opened the door while it was still running. How do you track THAT down?

It makes you wonder how many experiment results and observations get tainted by random, confounding variables. Which I guess is why repeatability and reproducability are crucial.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Not bothering with random links (since that's how a lot of shitty "news" sites got started is spamming pop news stories to get hits so they'd come off as reputable, plus to get money from ad-revenue), is this about the one from like last year?

If so, didn't they single out that, yes it did come from space but from some like Soviet era satellite?

Er, no it was they were pretty certain it came from Earth and it was a Russian outpost that originally reported the signal.

 

[pete6032]

Is that site reputable?

Is the thread creator reputable?

 

[Fritzo]

It makes you wonder how many experiment results and observations get tainted by random, confounding variables. Which I guess is why repeatability and reproducability are crucial.

Quite a few. If I recall, the microwave wasn't even located in the main building of the telescope.

Some radio telescopes have a radio-silence zone around them of several miles. If anyone wanders in with a cell phone or a CB radio, things go haywire.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

"Likely" is way overstating the case.

I've more faith that the Martian canals are artificially dug and they don't even exist.

 

[John Connor]

It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Imagine if Telstar somehow got reactivated and started broadcasting TV shows from alien planets. The shows would be based on before Earth even existed because it took so long for the signal to get here, but somehow the aliens knew about the frequency/modulation/encoding we were going to use.


They should make a movie of that.

 

[destrekor]

Yea, that's my take on this as well, if it was from a closer location I'd be more optimistic but 3 F-ing BILLION light-years away?, it has to be something with black holes or other natural causes IMO. The amount of power to send a signal that far boggles the mind. Since it appears it's not modulated with any information that alone suggests it's not ET reaching out.

It doesn't quite work like that.

It's not something that generated a massive signal to travel for 3 billion years. It is something that happened roughly 3 billion years ago, in a smaller universe. And light really just keeps traveling. It can be strong or faint, but it'll make it somewhere in the same amount of time as a more powerful source.

 

[Thebobo]

Forget about the alien signals, the real story is about the microwave that lasted for 17 years.

lol yea get that brand & model number and compare it to Consumer reports of that year.

 

[SKORPI0]

It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!

Aliens are looking for fish in the vastness of space, using their signals as bait. Human beings are the fish.
Once we answer back with the correct signal, they will know we exists and eventually find us. It will be the end for us.

Stephen Hawking warns that humanity should not respond to aliens in case they kill us all