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Occam's Razor: faulty equipment
by perseusprime11 10y ago
Occam's Razor: faulty equipment
- boomboomsubban 10y agoThat only happens when a range of telescopes point at a certain spot in the sky? It's possible, but by now they've likely ruled out most possible malfunctions.
- perseusprime11 10y agoCould it not be signals from our own equipment/satellites/spy planes/etc?
- winfred 10y agoThese radio telescopes have a fairly narrow focus and when two telescopes located on different continents aim at a source several billion light years away, their focal points do not overlap anywhere near earth, so that rules out anything on or near earth. You could come up with a theory where it does originate on earth, but it wouldn't pass Occam's razor.
- boont 10y agoI (mistakenly) thought you were referring to faulty equipment at the FRB. As in someone opened the door of a galactic scale microwave oven analogue megaparsecs away. And that sloppy engineering is still Occam's Razor no matter the scale or distance.