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Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Outside Our Galaxy (sciencealert.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the first-contact dept.

This week the New York Post reported on "powerful radio signals which have been detected repeatedly in the same exact location in space," generating as much energy as the sun does in a whole day, in "the only known instance in which these signals have been found twice in the same location in space." Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes Science Alert: Back in March, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from the same location in space. And now researchers have just picked up six more of the signals seemingly emanating from the same region, far beyond our Milky Way... Currently, the leading hypothesis for the source of the Milky Way's FRB is the cataclysmic collision of two neutron stars, which forms a black hole. The idea is that as this collision happens, huge amounts of short-lived radio energy are blasted out into space. But the repeating nature of these distant signals, all coming from the same place, suggest that can't be the case... the most likely hypothesis at the moment for these outer-galactic FRB is that they're coming from an exotic object such as a young neutron star, that's rotating with enough power to regularly emit the extremely bright pulses.
But the New York Post thinks it's aliens.

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  1. Fairy Tales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I suppose you can have your fairy tales about aliens and neutron stars, but know that they're make-believe. There are no aliens, neutron stars, quasars, pulsars, or anything like that. The truth is that everything we see was created by God in seven days, and that this God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, so that we might be redeemed and have salvation. We have evidence of this through historical facts like the Resurrection. These are proven facts. Your so-called science with aliens and neutron stars is just a bunch of fairy tales. If you must believe your fairy tales, so be it. I'll gladly live in the real world and worship the one true God, our Lord, Jesus Christ.

    1. Re: Fairy Tales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      If Jesus Christ is the literal Word of God, why were his last words "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

      Actually, Jesus's last words at the Crucifixion were "it is finished."

      And after his resurrection, Jesus's last words in the Bible come in the Book of Revelation, where he says repeatedly, "Behold, I come quickly." And his last words are "Surely I come quickly" (Revelation 22:20).

      One might equally wonder why our Lord suffered from sexual dysfunction that led him to highlight it so many times in the last chapter of the Bible.

    2. Re: Fairy Tales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      And after his resurrection, Jesus's last words in the Bible come in the Book of Revelation, where he says repeatedly, "Behold, I come quickly." And his last words are "Surely I come quickly" (Revelation 22:20).

      One might equally wonder why our Lord suffered from sexual dysfunction that led him to highlight it so many times in the last chapter of the Bible.

      Not only that but when he raped Mary, he came so fast he didn't even penetrate.

  2. Aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's gotta be aliens. I mean SETI got it wrong everytime but this time, it's gotta be aliens. I bet my wife on it.

  3. Re:It's nice to see some science based comments by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's sad that so many people think their wit and humor are worth sharing with all of us.

    Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.

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