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

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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Re: Fairy Tales

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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