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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

post #1 of 45
1/8/09 at 3:09am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/myster...yspacedetected

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LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.

The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.

Of course, sound waves can't travel in a vacuum (which is what most of space is), or at least they can't very efficiently. But radio waves can.

Radio waves are not sound waves, but they are still electromagnetic waves, situated on the low-frequency end of the light spectrum.

Many objects in the universe, including stars and quasars, emit radio waves. Even our home galaxy, the Milky Way, emits a static hiss (first detected in 1931 by physicist Karl Jansky). Other galaxies also send out a background radio hiss.

But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected.

There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Did Lovecraft give any instructions on what to do when They arrive?
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post #2 of 45
1/8/09 at 4:19am
If a silver man on a surfboard shows up, it's safe to say we're fucked.
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post #3 of 45
1/8/09 at 4:34am


And you thought the climate was fucked as it is....
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post #4 of 45
1/8/09 at 5:07am
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My favorite part:

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The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe.

For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.

"We really don't know what it is,"said team member Michael Seiffert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Ha ha ha ha, that doesn't freak me out AT ALL.

I keep seeing the words "hyperspace bypass" in my head.
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post #5 of 45
1/8/09 at 5:20am
Hmm. Sounds like we're fucked.
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post #6 of 45
1/8/09 at 5:27am
It'd be weird if they heard that and did know what it was. "Oh, yeah, that's just Gortho the Devourer from Dimension Q. We didn't tell you about him? Hm, must have been too caught up in that 'Pluto not being a planet' business."
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post #7 of 45
1/8/09 at 6:02am
Something finally responded to the Bloop.
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post #8 of 45
1/8/09 at 8:30am
Whatever it is... when it gets here if I'm still alive I plan to try and fuck it.
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post #9 of 45
1/8/09 at 8:51am
Supernova maybe?
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post #10 of 45
1/8/09 at 9:10am
Even god can't let one off without being caught.
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post #11 of 45
1/8/09 at 9:42am
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post #12 of 45
1/8/09 at 10:03am
V ger!
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post #13 of 45
1/8/09 at 10:29am
Just keep a close eye on the waters off Coney Island.
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post #14 of 45
1/8/09 at 10:39am
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
Something finally responded to the Bloop.
That's pretty much exactly what I thought. They already have a spy here, now we know how they communicate.
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post #15 of 45
1/8/09 at 12:45pm
Two TARDISes must have merged. The Doctor forgot to raise his shields again.

Silly Doctor!
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post #16 of 45
1/8/09 at 12:51pm
Dickson read my mind. You speedy jerk!

So I'll suggest:

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post #17 of 45
1/8/09 at 11:50pm
I'm just glad those scientists got to publish that article before Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith showed up to neuralize them. But I'd really have more confidence in this story if it appeared in the Enquirer.
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post #18 of 45
1/9/09 at 5:44am
So, do you guys think whatever is roaring will be here by 2012? It seems about right.
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post #19 of 45
1/9/09 at 5:53am
Fuck I knew someone would bring up the 2012 thing.
Oh well; Earth was pretty fucking righteous you have to agree.
Pity about the people.
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post #20 of 45
1/9/09 at 9:34am
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Originally Posted by Domingo View Post
Supernova maybe?
It's included in the radio emissions referenced by BTSMGL.
This is weird stuff. You need a lot of matter in order to generate those emissions.
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post #21 of 45
1/9/09 at 9:41am
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark View Post
Just keep a close eye on the waters off Coney Island.
I saw it, it's a lion!
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post #22 of 45
1/9/09 at 10:20am
Voltron!
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post #23 of 45
1/9/09 at 10:24am
It's obviously Viral Marketing for Transformers 2.
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post #24 of 45
1/9/09 at 2:41pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
It's obviously Viral Marketing for Transformers 2.
Is this a sarcastic assumption or real? Why do you think that?

Also, I've always been kinda freaked out about space in that we really can't track what goes on out there, AT ALL. I keep expecting one day for a press conference where they say "Yeah, ah, something really big exploded in space and the shockwaves will reach us in about six months. The Earth will pretty much implode when it hits us. We just noticed yesterday, soooooooo... yeah. Our bad."
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post #25 of 45
1/9/09 at 3:02pm
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Originally Posted by Tom Logan View Post
Even god can't let one off without being caught.
Even the lord believes in the santicity of "He who smelt it, delt it."
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post #26 of 45
1/9/09 at 3:13pm
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/terriblesecret
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post #27 of 45
1/16/09 at 6:31am
Possible answer to where the noise is coming from. Prepare to have your minds blown out of your heads.

Warning: Some physics goobledygook inside.
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post #28 of 45
1/16/09 at 6:52am
The beaming of the Day The Earth Stood Still remake into distant space has been received, the The Critical Ones have spoken, and the "review" is on its way to scatter our world to atoms.

Once again, Fox is to blame.
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post #29 of 45
1/16/09 at 7:19am
So if the universe is a 3-D projection of 2-D information, does that mean life is just a gimmick?
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post #30 of 45
1/16/09 at 7:45am
I think the hologram theory might actually play into the hands of the ID crowd.
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post #31 of 45
1/16/09 at 8:34am
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Originally Posted by Jared Melton View Post
I think the hologram theory might actually play into the hands of the ID crowd.
Really?
How so?
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post #32 of 45
1/16/09 at 8:51am
Well really, doesn't anything pretty much play into the hands of the ID crowd? Their entire schtick is to distort facts to fit their agenda.
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post #33 of 45
1/16/09 at 9:07am
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Originally Posted by OCallaghan View Post
Really?
How so?
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
Well really, doesn't anything pretty much play into the hands of the ID crowd? Their entire schtick is to distort facts to fit their agenda.
Well this...

And -- if we're just a hologram, SOMEBODY must be projecting it, riiiiight?
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post #34 of 45
1/16/09 at 9:11am
Man, I wish I had stuck to what I originaly wanted to do and studied physics instead of electrical engineering.
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post #35 of 45
1/16/09 at 9:13am
I totally picture your avatar saying that, stelios.
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post #36 of 45
1/16/09 at 10:05am
You can totally tell that avatar works with electricity, though. How do you think his hair got like that?
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post #37 of 45
1/16/09 at 10:25am
We should have listened to Jeff Goldblum.
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post #38 of 45
1/16/09 at 1:22pm
My avatar's hair are natural, Iggy. Some would say even too natural ...

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post #39 of 45
1/16/09 at 1:24pm
You should have cropped that to remove the text (which we can't read in avatar form) and it would give us a better view of the head and hair!
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post #40 of 45
1/16/09 at 1:48pm
The obvious answer.
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post #41 of 45
1/16/09 at 2:01pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
You should have cropped that to remove the text (which we can't read in avatar form) and it would give us a better view of the head and hair!
Too much work. You do it.
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post #42 of 45
1/16/09 at 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Too much work. You do it.
You lazy ass greek!
LL
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post #43 of 45
1/16/09 at 2:22pm
Muchos grazias, amigo.
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post #44 of 45
1/16/09 at 2:33pm
And thus Argentine/Greek relations were improved. Huzzah!
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post #45 of 45
1/16/09 at 3:02pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
And thus Argentine/Greek relations were improved. Huzzah!
and many bottles of Labatt Maximum Ice were consumed...
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