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Repeating Fast Radio Bursts From Deep Space!!!

FordGT90Concept said:
If Earth was on the verge of dying, you bet your ass we'd ruin a lesser species on another planet for our own survival.
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Question is , would we have the necessary resources to do that and would it be cost-effective. I have always figured that for a really technologically advanced civilization , they would figure out ways to survive on less resources rather than have to keep reaching out for further and further worlds. For example they might make the jump from biological life forms to machines. An advanced alien race might consist of nothing more that a bunch of "bits" inside a computer on a spaceship with no need to sprawl across planets indefinitely. But then again , every one of our theories is just sci-fi most likely.
 
Desperate time calls for desperate measures. Case in point: we would have little reason not to use nuclear warheads.
 
Vya Domus said:
Question is , would we have the necessary resources to do that and would it be cost-effective. I have always figured that for a really technologically advanced civilization , they would figure out ways to survive on less resources rather than have to keep reaching out for further and further worlds. For example they might make the jump from biological life forms to machines. An advanced alien race might consist of nothing more that a bunch of "bits" inside a computer on a spaceship with no need to sprawl across planets indefinitely. But then again , every one of our theories is just sci-fi most likely.
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Please, we commit genocide for fun. Taking over their planet would be a bonus.
 
What would we do if aliens sent us a message? One astronomer says he would reply with the entire contents of the internet.

“Should we invite the aliens for dinner or what?” That’s according to Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer for SETI. But if it were up to him, “I would just send them the internet,” he told International Business Times, because it would give them a lot more information about us and our planet.
 
Decrypted signal I ask , because theres plenty of naturals ones when some humans took it as a good pr stunt/click bait type of "opportunity" to be exact, and how is this different?
 
Drone said:
What would we do if aliens sent us a message? One astronomer says he would reply with the entire contents of the internet.

“Should we invite the aliens for dinner or what?” That’s according to Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer for SETI. But if it were up to him, “I would just send them the internet,” he told International Business Times, because it would give them a lot more information about us and our planet.
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If we sent them even a fraction of what on the internet they would probably want to kill is cuz how messed up the internet is.
 
Estaric said:
If we sent them even a fraction of what on the internet they would probably want to kill is cuz how messed up the internet is.
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We better send them only the pr0n then
 
When fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first detected in 2001, astronomers had never seen anything like them before. Since then, astronomers have found a couple of dozen FRBs, but they still don’t know what causes these rapid and powerful bursts of radio emission.

For the first time, two astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have estimated how many FRBs should occur over the entire observable universe. Their work indicates that at least one FRB is going off somewhere every second.
 
Why speculate at all? The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to tell us soon enough with enhanced images.

It seems I always end topics in pure victory. Let it be known, that I, Lynx, was once the greatest Paladin tank to have ever walked the Milky Way Galaxy!
 
JWST alone is not enough. Without radio, gamma, X-rays and gravitational signals (maybe even some unknown type of signals) the picture is incomplete. The more missions/probes/observartories the better.
 
No matter what good news ever comes from detection, the vastness of the universe is enough to both amaze and depress you anyways. We are alone, even if we are not alone. I remember Sagan liked using words like "local group" and "neighborhood" to discuss areas in space, but even the space between a possible neighbor is so immense I can't wrap my head around it.
 
I can appreciate genuine discovery just as much as the next guy. I would say i am of the opinion that based on simple likelihood combined with the seemingly endless space we dont inhabit, its more likely than not that life exists in many forms outside of our solar system (or possibly even within).

With that said, in my humble opinion, detecting repetitive, or seemingly patternized repotitous signals from "space" is like seeing a turtle or a dragon while looking up at the clouds in the sky. I feel it's interesting, but needs to be observed, & shown/documented to repeat if possible before i could find myself saying "is this extra terrestrial life/technology emitting this pattern", with any genuine seriousness.

Until its more than just a 'turtle in the clouds' all i can say is its interesting.

Also, not hearing , or detecting a signal from space doesnt discourage my feeling that life more likely than not exists. I have never detected a blue whale, or a Galapagos turtle, but they're still living, just the same.
 
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My only hope is an alien invasion. War of the Worlds was a positive "coming of age" story, in my mind :D Otherwise, we're out of luck.
 
jboydgolfer said:
I can appreciate genuine discovery just as much as the next guy. I would say i am of the opinion that based on simple likelihood combined with the seemingly endless space we dont inhabit, its more likely than not that life exists in many forms outside of our solar system (or possibly even within).

With that said, in my humble opinion, detecting repetitive, or seemingly patternized repotitous signals from "space" is like seeing a turtle or a dragon while looking up at the clouds in the sky. I feel it's interesting, but needs to be observed, & shown/documented to repeat if possible before i could find myself saying "is this extra terrestrial life/technology emitting this pattern", with any genuine seriousness.

Until its more than just a 'turtle in the clouds' all i can say is its interesting.

Also, not hearing , or detecting a signal from space doesnt discourage my feeling that life more likely than not exists. I have never detected a blue whale, or a Galapagos turtle, but they're still living, just the same.
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I've always likened our knowledge of the universe to an ant crawling on a car fender and it realizing it's on metal--even though metal is 'discovered' it gives no insight whatsoever to what a car is, about roads, or even the society in which cars exist. And the little ant simply does not have the ability to comprehend all that. We are those ants happily proclaiming 'it's metal!' without the ability to comprehend the enormous scope of what we would define as 'everything'.
 
random "conclusion" of a scenario: the signal is ununnatural.
 
Holy shit :eek:




Aussie telescope finds 20 new mysterious fast radio signals from deep space





A fast radio burst leaves a distant galaxy, travelling to Earth over billions of years and occasionally passing through clouds of gas in its path. Each time a cloud of gas is encountered, the different wavelengths that make up a burst are slowed by different amounts. Timing the arrival of the different wavelengths at a radio telescope tells us how much material the burst has travelled through on its way to Earth and allows astronomers to detect “missing” matter located in the intergalactic space.


 
well would Aliens use radio waves ?
would Aliens want to make contact ? given the human condition ie we kill and eat anything and go to war at the drop of the hat.
what would Aliens gain by contacting us ? given that thay would beable to fly faster than light there is much more interesting stuff to visit in the universe.

if you go out past the out limits of our solar system id bet there big signs say "keep out you could be eaten or worse" :).
 
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They could be watching us as a form of comedic entertainment - Sending us radio pulses to stir us up like poking an anthill to watch the little buggers run. "Look what happens when we do this" and they send a pulse - We react and they think it's funny as hell to watch.
Cheap entertainment while in orbit around that weird little blue planet they're on.

OR......
The amount of "Stupid" that goes on here could have them thinking "Look!!!! That **** is contagious!!!!!" and Earth has been designated a no-contact zone to avoid the spread of such contamination. They are also trying to remain hidden so one day we don't come looking for them and accidentally spread the disease of dumbassity from us to them.

You know, like Herpes - The gift that keeps on giving. :fear:
 
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