{"id":6438,"date":"2015-03-31T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:08:26","slug":"is-it-pulsars-a-spy-satellite-or-an-alien-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/31\/is-it-pulsars-a-spy-satellite-or-an-alien-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Sarah Scoles<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message?<\/i><\/p>\n

BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. If the pattern is real, either some strange celestial physics is going on, or the bursts are artificial, produced by human \u2013 or alien \u2013 technology.<\/p>\n

Telescopes have been picking up so-called\u00a0fast radio bursts<\/a>\u00a0(FRBs) since 2001. They last just a few milliseconds and erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month. Ten have been detected so far, most recently in 2014, when the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia,\u00a0caught a burst in action for the first time<\/a>. The others were found by sifting through data after the bursts had arrived at Earth. No one knows what causes them, but the brevity of the bursts means their source has to be small \u2013 hundreds of kilometres across at most \u2013 so they can’t be from ordinary stars. And they seem to come from far outside the galaxy.<\/p>\n

The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn’t match what we know about\u00a0cosmic physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from New Scientist Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space by\u00a0Sarah Scoles Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message? BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}