Mysterious signal from space: Is it alien or an unknown phenomenon?

[mapuc]

Interesting read- I have difficult believing in aliens so I say its an unknown phenomenon

http://globalnews.ca/news/1916052/mysterious-signal-from-space-is-it-alien-or-an-unknown-phenomenon/

Just this year, one of these FRBs was seen in action for the first time (as opposed to scientists going through data and finding them

Markus

[Gargamel]

Read that the other day.

Might be aliens, might also be a sports bar pirating a satellite signal. That's why it's unknown. There's only 10 signals, so they don't have a lot of data to work with yet. They'll figure it out eventually.

[Sailor Steve]

If it is aliens, they sent those signals a very, very, very long time ago. :sunny:

[Rockstar]

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/90/e9/a1/90e9a1506e515d379ee27bf761bd477a.jpg

[mapuc]

If it is aliens, they sent those signals a very, very, very long time ago. :sunny:

It's funny how we always think in "us-term" when there's a discussion about Aliens. Have no one ever thought of that they may be thousands of year ahead of us and by now and perhaps can send message from one galaxy to another from one day to the other

That if it is alien.

Markus

[Tango589]

If they are thousands of years ahead of us, then they probably still won't want to talk to us, as we'll be the equivalent of primitive life to them.

'They haven't got time travel yet? Bwahahahaha! Don't bother talking to them, they're so backwards it hurts!'

[Gargamel]

Very true mapuc, Also, in the article I read, it siad there is a decent chance that they are somewhat local, within our end of the galaxy.

[mapuc]

If they are thousands of years ahead of us, then they probably still won't want to talk to us, as we'll be the equivalent of primitive life to them.

'They haven't got time travel yet? Bwahahahaha! Don't bother talking to them, they're so backwards it hurts!'


That's why I say its a natural phenomenon, having difficult believe in Aliens and if they do exist, why bother contact us, who may be in the stone age in their view.

Markus

[Silent_Kebab]

I think this a destroyer sonar :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Sailor Steve]

It's funny how we always think in "us-term" when there's a discussion about Aliens. Have no one ever thought of that they may be thousands of year ahead of us and by now and perhaps can send message from one galaxy to another from one day to the other
If they had the kind of technology that can circumvent physics and travel faster than light, why would they send a signal from thousands or millions of light-years away? It they could send a message that far in one day they would more likely just travel here and say "Hello". They would probably also have the technology to send us a message we could understand.

That if it is alien.
Which was my point in the first place. It's probably natural.

[STEED]

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-kick-alien-butt.png

[vienna]

Given the vast distances and the time necessary to cover them, if it is an actual signal for an alien intelligence, the possibility also exists they might not even exist any more given how long ago they might have been sent. They might be nothing more than sonic fossils...


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[Buddahaid]

If they had the kind of technology that can circumvent physics and travel faster than light, why would they send a signal from thousands or millions of light-years away? It they could send a message that far in one day they would more likely just travel here and say "Hello". They would probably also have the technology to send us a message we could understand.

You're forgetting that we are sending signals now. When our civilization is a thousand years advanced with FTL drive, those signals will still be traveling on.

Anyway, those advanced aliens likely view us primitives as space tourism sites and get a good laugh at our stupid moronic struggles.

[Torplexed]

Human civilization is 10,000ish years old. Technological human civilization is 500 years old. High technology is maybe 60 years old. Life is 3 billion years old. If I were to project our advancement, I can imagine us as a species remaining barely comprehensible and recognizable to our present day selves for another 1 to 2,000 years, tops. Maybe aliens that have been around for billions of years don't find us remotely interesting or worth their while. We do occasionally send biologists out to prod deep-sea-vent creatures, but far from every deep-sea-vent creature gets a visit from a biologist.

Since we're talking about contact between civilizations, at some level of mutual comprehensibility, not contact between apes and angels, I would say that the chances of conversations with aliens are a bit more remote when the timescales are considered.

[Jimbuna]

Maybe aliens that have been around for billions of years don't find us remotely interesting or worth their while.

Could well be the case, I simply fear we don't end up as another option on their food chain.

[STEED]

Could well be the case, I simply fear we don't end up as another option on their food chain.

Not yet we're sex toys to them, anal probing. :o :haha:

[Jeff-Groves]

Not yet we're sex toys to them, anal probing. :o :haha:

Na. That's just experimenting to find the best stuffing.
What opening of a Turkey does one shove stuffing into?
:haha:

[Wolferz]

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/250px-South_Park_-_Cartman_anaacutelis_beuumllteteacutese.png

[Platapus]

It's funny how we always think in "us-term" when there's a discussion about Aliens. Have no one ever thought of that they may be thousands of year ahead of us and by now and perhaps can send message from one galaxy to another from one day to the other

That if it is alien.

Markus

Also if the aliens have such technology, what are the chances that the signal could be picked up on any technology we currently have?

That would be like someone with a heliograph trying to pick up a VIOP data packet. They would not even know the signal existed.

[Catfish]

Last time we were sure there were alien signals, it was the lighthouse effect of a pulsar. But this looks indeed different.

Really, among those millions of millions of stars, the probability of other life (of any kind and whatever 'it' looks like) is pretty high.
But as Stanislav Lem said, the "window of contact" (time-and location-wise, to receive signals) is highly improbable.

I just hope, if there ever IS a contact, it will not be screwed up by some "great" military human minds :hmm2:

[Torplexed]

I just hope, if there ever IS a contact, it will not be screwed up by some "great" military human minds :hmm2:

I think I hear General Decker from Mars Attacks! :D

"We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill! "

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/e/e9/MA-1911-2.jpg/601px-MA-1911-2.jpg

[Aktungbby]

Could well be the case, I simply fear we don't end up as another option on their food chain.
^Precisely! the reason they don't communicte is so simple...no one talks to food!:oops: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_aliens/esp_vi14.gif

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_aliens/esp_vi16.gifLe diner est servi i(n gray script)

[Buddahaid]

Talking about food.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/vel1fcA.jpg I didn't post one of these yet?

[Platapus]

Could well be the case, I simply fear we don't end up as another option on their food chain.

The message referenced a document of theirs entitled "how to serve man."

I don't think we have anything to worry about.

[vienna]

So, let's say it is an alien message, and, let's say, earth scientists decipher and translate the message; what if the message says something like:

"Greetings:

I am an Alpha/Centurian prince and I am in need of your assistance in reclaiming my due inheritance..."...


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[Jeff-Groves]

So, let's say it is an alien message, and, let's say, earth scientists decipher and translate the message; what if the message says something like:

"Greetings:

I am an Alpha/Centurian prince and I am in need of your assistance in reclaiming my due inheritance..."...


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Those are old messages due to the distance.
Newer technology developed by the Aliens sends faster signals that have out paced the older.

Haven't you gotten the "Your Walmart $153 dollar Gift Card is about to expire!" Messages yet?
:o

[vienna]

My personal favorites are messages warning or telling me about problems with my accounts in banks or stores with whom I have no accounts... :haha:


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[Platapus]

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/743037/im-not-saying-its-aliens-but-its-aliens.jpg

[mapuc]

They have solved it now they now where these mysterious signal came from

http://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomical-quest-leads-ovens

Who would have thought that ?

The source of puzzling radio wave bursts detected by two of the world's largest telescopes has been found, and the answer turns out to come from the research facilities' tea rooms, not extragalactic space

Markus

[Rhodes]

:haha: Remembered one episode of (argghh) season 2 of the original Battlestar Galactica that when the people switch on a microwave oven, the cylons dropped like rocks!

Well, not across the galaxy, just next room! :huh: