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Frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers

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In 1967 British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell was left stunned by mysterious pulsing signals she detected coming from outside the solar system.

For months she suggested the signals could be of an extraterrestrial intelligent origin, but they were later proven to be rapidly spinning stars known as pulsars.

However, a new series of mysterious signals, known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), has again got astronomers scratching their heads and wondering if, maybe, we’re picking up alien messages.
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Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? | Mail Online

I'm guessing that it was swamp gas. No, wait. It was a weather balloon. That's it, I'm sure of it. ;)
 
Interesting. Thanks, Jango.
 
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‘It would be fantastic if this was an alien signal....'
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Ha ha, no it wouldn't. The odds of aliens being from Close Encounters are so minute as to be laughable. If we meet aliens it's going to end poorly for us.
 
Cardinal said:
Ha ha, no it wouldn't. The odds of aliens being from Close Encounters are so minute as to be laughable. If we meet aliens it's going to end poorly for us.
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I know, right! Scientists with their rosy colored glasses.
 
Cardinal said:
Ha ha, no it wouldn't. The odds of aliens being from Close Encounters are so minute as to be laughable. If we meet aliens it's going to end poorly for us.
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Jango said:
I know, right! Scientists with their rosy colored glasses.
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Why aliens gotta be evil?


 
ecofarm said:
Why the aliens gotta be evil?
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Evil is sort of beside the point. It's just that the one precedent we have for life evolving is our own, and what it has produced is aggressive and hostile as a whole to other species, with the only consistent exception being those we made into pets.
 
Cardinal said:
Evil is sort of beside the point. It's just that the one precedent we have for life evolving is our own, and what it has produced is aggressive and hostile as a whole to other species, with the only consistent exception being those we made into pets.
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Why do you hate Mexicans?
 
Jango said:
I know, right! Scientists with their rosy colored glasses.
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In a new Discovery Channel documentary to be aired in May, renowned astrophysicist Dr. Hawking suggests that with 100 billion galaxies in the universe it seems “perfectly rational” that aliens exist. While they are most probably microorganisms or basic animals, he suggests the threat posed by intelligent life forms, if they exist, could make reaching out to them “a little too risky.”

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,” he said. “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the native Americans.”
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“Ignoring the possibility [alien life] and hiding your head in the sand, waiting for them to find us certainly isn’t a scientifically intelligent way to proceed or a good cultural way to anticipate something like that either,” says Mary Voytek, senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA. “Our approach to it has been to be prepared. We’re not going to get caught, say like the native Americans when Columbus came to their shores. We’ve been actively listening and hopefully we get some information before any eventual encounter ever happens.”
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Stephen Hawking aliens theory doesn't scare planet hunters - CSMonitor.com
 
ecofarm said:
Why aliens gotta be evil?
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They don't have to be evil, but they likely would be considering they'd dwarf us intellectually and technologically. The way humans view mice/ants/fleas is the way they'd likely view us. There are human-on-human examples of this: Columbus & Cortés with the Arawak/Taino/Lucayan & Aztecs.
 
As for how we would fare on the business end of an invasion, the only realistic scenario was shown in the total downer Skyline. Know why audiences hated it? Because we lost. Badly. Which is the only possible end result of being invaded by an alien race so technologically advanced that they could successfully cross millions of light years to reach us. Trust me, if we were smart we'd stay nice and quiet until we understood what the hell was out there.
 
Jango said:
They don't have to be evil, but they likely would be considering they'd dwarf us intellectually and technologically. The way humans view mice/ants/fleas is the way they'd likely view us. There are human-on-human examples of this: Columbus & Cortés with the Arawak/Taino/Lucayan & Aztecs.
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We've learned from our mistakes, presumably they have as well.
 
I read the article, as soon as I saw that these frequencies were being broadcast on the GHz band and all of my radios are only capable of receiving Mhz and KHz bands I ran out to Radio Shack to purchase a radio that was capable of receiving GHz band frequencies.

Radio Shack no longer sells radios !!!

Cold War story.

U.S. intelligence were confused with the messages that were being transmitted by the Soviets. They were just a radio burst of a fraction of a second. Eventually someone decided to slow down the recordings big time. The Soviets were taking minute long transmissions and speeding them up to be transmitted at a burst of less than one second.
 
ecofarm said:
We've learned from our mistakes, presumably they have as well.
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"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy."

Point being, although developing trends support your statement, I don't think we're so far along that it would take terribly much to revert. And let's be fair, people in third world countries aren't treated so hot.
 
Jango said:
Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? | Mail Online

I'm guessing that it was swamp gas. No, wait. It was a weather balloon. That's it, I'm sure of it. ;)
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Gotta love the ineptitude of the author of the article. He shows one instance of someone discovering this radio signal from outside the solar system, the rest doesn't say where the signals came from and the author automatically says "from outside the milky way". While these radio bursts could be coming from outside the milky way that doesn't mean that they ARE coming from outside the milky way. The author shows his ignorance of astronomy by proclaiming that its coming from outside the milky way because one astronomer found it coming from outside the solar system. This is actually a common mistake from those that are ignorant on astronomy. Many seem to think that our solar system IS the milky way. It's not. The milky way is our entire galaxy. A MUCH larger expanse of space than our tiny solar system. Our system would be called the Sol System. Based off of the name of our star.
 
ecofarm said:
We've learned from our mistakes, presumably they have as well.
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Perhaps civilized society has, but when an examination of "uncivilized" societies is conducted, wholesale slaughter, slavery, rape & other ugly things exist in abundance.

When it comes to extraterrestrials: the way we interact with each other is dependent on what their goals are. They could be humanity's greatest ally or something akin to extraterrestrial North Koreans. If they're the former, great, our worldly problems would be likely solved. But if they're the latter, we're ****ed because there is a wide-spectrum of horrible things we could experience.
 
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