Echoes from Ancient Supernovae Found?

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are claiming that they may have found echoes left over from ancient supernovae. From the article: "Just as a sound echo can occur when sound waves bounce off a distant surface and reflect back toward the listener, a light echo can be seen when light waves traveling through space are reflected back toward the viewer. The light echoes were discovered by comparing images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) taken years apart. By precisely subtracting the common elements in each image and analyzing what variable objects remain, the team looked for evidence of dark matter that might distort the light of stars in a transitory way, as part of a second-generation sky survey called SuperMACHO. SuperMACHO builds on the discoveries of the MACHO project, which started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1989."

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Echoes from Ancient Supernovae Found??

[Anonymous Coward]

Supernovae ? Call the RIAA immediately !

Re:Echoes from Ancient Supernovae Found??

[TubeSteak]

We called the MPAA at first, but they couldn't stand up to the massive quantities of hard radiation put out by supernovae.

Unfortunately, the RIAA (being closely related to cockroaches) found themselves able to tolerate the radiation.

I hear their mutated spawn plan on getting into the TV business.

Its not a dupe!

[vivek7006]

Without RTFA, I assumed that it is a dupe of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/20/043218 &tid=95&tid=99

Re:"SuperMACHO"

[Jedi Alec]

no matter what, both MACHO and WIMP are merely forms of Greatly Exagerrated Extra-terristrial Kaos.

Re:"SuperMACHO"

[tnsimonson]

Prior to being dubbed MACHO, the working title of this project was Compact Objects Juxtaposed Over Neglible Echo Systems, or COJONES. It was felt that this unfortunate acronym would be offensive to some, so the name was changed to Partially Uncovered Transient Anomalies Masked Against Dense Retrograde Echoes, or PUTA MADRE. Tragically, this acronym also caused anger in many circles, and thus was born MACHO.

Maybe you speak gaelic,

[Inoshiro]

but in my language, we use vowels!