therealhoward
117861
1989
51
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/09/10/ai-helps-track-down-mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts/
Sep 11, 2018 5:05 PM
therealhoward
117861
1989
51
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/09/10/ai-helps-track-down-mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts/
ROBOTvsMAN
AxelBeingCivil
I look forward to hearing about some interesting new cosmic phenomena! Won't be aliens, but it will be something cool!
DashDaddyD
Only a matter of time before we find aliens and try to eat them.
m0nk3y80y
If you'd lioke some reading: http://blpd0.ssl.berkeley.edu/frb-machine/CNNFRB_eprint.pdf
nikolateslaismyhomeboy
MrNightfish
"You have one missed call, 3 billion years ago"
LordBoyka
3 billion light years probably means theyre dead now
JeremiahSeinfrog
Y'all need to read the Three-Body Problem trilogy and realize this kind of exposure is certain death for any civilization.
realbrickwall
3 billion light years? Even if it is aliens, they've been extinct for longer than Earth has had living organisms.
LTPALPATINE
Not true. If they got advanced enough they could just leave their home planet.
Slander7
ACTUALLY, life on Earth is thought to be 3.8 billion years old.
FalafelOutTheWiseau
ToxicMolluscinity
Breaking News: decoded as trading options for oil by an alien totalitarian regime. US Space Force has been dispatched to bring democracy.
stonekaiju
I'mdoingmypart.gif
repostmodern
Greetings Earthlings!
punknoodles0
new phone; who dis?
OpieCunningham
Sometime later, there's a knock on OP's door.
ThomasTheWankEnglne
oh good. tell em hi in 3bil years
Quizz25S
And if they're capable of faster than light travel, we better pray they're friendly because if not, we're toast.
romicra88
Always what I think about. Basically it's neat, but pointless in our lifetime
ElioNope
Due to the expansion of space, it'd actually take even longer to get a signal there (assuming we could at all).
YesButAlsoYes
They’ve probably been dead for 2.9 billion years already
Bluejay0013
So it's not in our galaxy, our galaxy is only 75000LY in diameter.
Bluejay0013
Sorry, 100000LY across
ralphie84
Vong?
kkanne20
after translation: "ayyy lmao"
5omeWhiteGuy
I for one would like to volunteer to get the fuck off this planet. Send me to theirs I dont care
PinkieToad
you say that. they you'll go to mars or some octopus boring af planet and be bored out your mind and wish for earth
5omeWhiteGuy
im a simple man that takes simple pleasure. gimme a solar panel and sme game systems and im set for a long long time
PinkieToad
oh you just need a place to relax and play games. it could be a closet or tahiti
Banlish
I really hope that's true, alien life would make us stop a ton of the B.S. we do as a species.
Quizz25S
Fun fact radio waves generated by humans havnt even left our galaxy yet.Not even close.And probably nothing outside of that knows were here.
Straga27
I wonder how cool it would be that Humanity is actually the elder race of this part of the Galaxy and the reason we can't detect anything
Straga27
is because alien life still hasn't crawled out of their oceans yet.
Slander7
This is the optimistic view of the Great Filter theory for the Fermi paradox: that we are 'past' the filter.
Slander7
The cynical view is that it is still ahead of us and we're going to crash into it face-first.
TonyZed68
Yayyy, aliens!
?noredirect
bleblebla
and you go in pieces
DoYouGuysNotHavePhones
if it's from 3 billion years ago, whoever sent it might be long gone.
CryptFist
As long as it’s not a reply to the first tv signal to go to space we are good
allibaster12
How many miles is that?
Atwthepig
Tree fiddy
BeenthereDonesome
a fuckton
grahmcrackersbook
At least 1.
CandiedCorn
1 light year is about 6 trillion miles. So 3 Billion light years would be slightly less than all the miles.
xenocyde1224
1.764x10^22
somethingmcgee123
17,640,000,000,000,000,000,000
dragonbolt
That's at least 2
PromotedToMrWilson
I think it's going to be weird if/when we break into interstellar travel, and find we're the most advanced species around.
RazjelI
see you in a heat death
DarthFaul
MayOrMayNotProbeYou
It’s nothing, no need to investigate it anymore. Weather balloons and swamp gas.
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Mizuha112
Username relevant
banausian
“Yoodoo hoodoo poodoo Jedi Mind Trick oodoo poodoo baah” Jabba the Hutt
besn
Mavgurian
For years we listened, sent our own messages into the depth of space. When finally we received an answer all it said was: Quiet, you fools!
lilmookieesquire
Yes, I also agree. It is weather balloons and swamp gas. All investigations should be stopped immediately and forgotten about.
cowboyshooter
Go away Thor. We already saved your ass from the Replicators 5 times.
C141Clay
https://imgur.com/jtVD3gc
caesarovic
Is this one you?
?1
ObsceneTentacularInsertions
"If you'd all please direct your attention to this little device for a moment..." ***PEWWWwwwwwww*
OrbitalSquid
Downvoted for posting a selfie.
Ohboyididit
Watch Joe Rogans interview with Elon Musk...he talks AI and what the future might hold...wow
Kaiser499
sheepandshepherd
Oh, they won't find anything... memorable... when they investigate.
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Cheesecakecrush
You just dug up some of my nightmare fuel, thanks
Billis75
Someone invented radio 3 billion years ago, they're likely dead anyway, no need to worry!
Dreigiau
OneEvilAlien
Oh, I think it would be great if they answered...
MayOrMayNotProbeYou
Shhh, do you want to catch humans, because this is how you catch humans...
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OneEvilAlien
I kind of do though...
Icanalreadytelliwillbepopular
But wait, if there's weather balloons billions of lightyears from earth doesn't that mean...
ghostfacevader
MayOrMayNotProbeYou
You’re goadin’ for a Probin’. I’m gonna you to chill with the questions.
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livingthathoelife
MissivesFromTheTower
That's an intergalactic dolphin on wheels! So long, and thanks for all the fish!
MASSIVESPACEMONKEY
What the fuck is that from?! This is the fucker I see when I get sleep paralysis. Terrifying .
mendrak
Seriously, that gif is fucking creepy.
Bluefasa
The movie is called Extraterrestrial, by the same folks that did Grave Encounters.
MASSIVESPACEMONKEY
I'm not sure whether I should now watch this or not.
Bluefasa
Hard to talk about it critically without spoilers, but I've guess I like it. Did you like/watch Grave Encounters and/or Alien Abduction?
Bluefasa
Combine those movies but lose the found footage aspect, that's about what you get
WendyTheWendigo
Buddy, have I got some bad news for you and your anus...
MASSIVESPACEMONKEY
.....go on.....
grahmcrackersbook
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong...
valkrez
That's not okay
theDoctorWillBeYouNow
THAT’S MOTHER FUCKIN JOHN DENVER
Hutchy01
If this summons the fucking Zetan's I'm not ready to fight an angry green midget in a cave for a laser gun.
Fadetoblack021
WEST VIRGINIAAAAAAAA
Helios8172
No, we sing Big Iron around here.
Hutchy01
Are you here for Texas Red?
Helios8172
Yeah, it's not as if many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead.
ThePiedPiperofRuination
I heard he was vicious and a killer even though he was only 24.
Helios8172
Yep, and I heard the notches on his pistol numbered 1 and 19 more.
MountainYankee
Nope. No. Hell no! We are not doing that shit. Fuck that shit. We are staying right here, where there are no acid blooded aliens/bio weapons
Necr0Synthetic
LadiesInboxMeYourInsecurities
... But what if we are them?
grahmcrackersbook
OR, OR. Hear me out. THEY are US?
LadiesInboxMeYourInsecurities
How ironically hilarious would it be if the radio bursts are something we sent ages ago and they bounced off some unknown phenomenon?
Vidikron
Likely a neutron star. Artificial signals will be drowned out by the background radiation (static) in the universe after a few light years.
WhatzitTooya
Or a microwave, like last time they found something.
PinkieToad
yeah it's just totally not some alien because hell no would they want to talk to us shithead. it's space nature stuff
thewookiest
You’re a bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington. Let us be ignorant and dream.
Domehammer
Good old Buzz Killington.
Vidikron
I know... As much as I'd love to be around when we make contact, I gotta be a realist.
IBelieveOdinIsReal
mirosMarbleVoter
what about the WOW signal?
Didthatjusthappen
Background like remnants of big bang edge of observable universe radiation or clutter from everything?
Vidikron
Yes. Neither is mutually exclusive and have some overlapping frequencies.
Didthatjusthappen
I ain't asking no more questions. ..got stuff to do and that would just take me down a rabbit hole. Thanks!
brownieblue
So you've limited the power on alien signals, without having any knowledge about them? How small minded of you
Vidikron
Well, when we get/develop interstellar signals that can overcome the static, I guess I'll open my mind.
PubstarHero
Posted this in a different comment - check out this video on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttwl_zH_DZ8&
AmHumanNotLizardMan
For a signal that far away to reach us in measurable amount, it would need to be EXTREMELY powerful or EXTREMELY well targeted
AmHumanNotLizardMan
this basically means you need to be either pumping out 100 suns worth of energy in all directions, or know where the recipient is.
Loxachi
Ok well then what's the sensitivity of modern signal detection equipment it's noise floor?
AmHumanNotLizardMan
For the Australian radio telescope, a single mobile phone on pluto is considered a blindingly bright radio source. Of course 3bn ly away...
brownieblue
Perhaps aliens might have a couple 100, 1000, or million year head start, and this wouldn't be a problem .
Vidikron
Perhaps, but...
somethingmcgee123
"How dare you come up with a reasonable explanation instead of getting excited over nothing."
brownieblue
I didnt say get excited. It probably is nothing. But to be dismissive based on the assumption that aliens aren't powerful enough to (1/2)
brownieblue
Contact us if they so choose is just ridiculous (2/2)
garnerfenoms
Not necessarily like their tv broad casts or other intra species communication sure could be drowned out. But a purpose-built beacon (1/?)
garnerfenoms
Could get out attention, isaac Arthur has some good videos on this very topic on youtube.(1/2)
flavivsaetivs
Fuck yes Isaac Arthur is the best
smpat04
Yeah but do you really believe an advanced civilization will be using radio signals? They’re sooo slow.
garnerfenoms
Radio signals are as fast as light thats about as fast you can get without tech we haven't discovered yet. It would make more sense to (1/?)
garnerfenoms
Do radio because it would allow more civilizations to pick up the signal. (1/2)
smpat04
I think the second half of the first sentence is the key :)