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The first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm
- phyzome 7y agoAnother sensationalist headline from Vice. This is the first known periodic fast radio burst source, and that's cool, but it's not sending signals "to Earth".
- sk0g 7y agoYeah! Though the title got me to read the article out of interest, so it worked? Scientists: due to alignment of unknown/ crazy factors, we can detect evenly spaced radio waves coming from a nearby galaxy. Vice: aliens are sending us frequent messages :)
- dang 7y agoOk, we've replaced the headline with a substring of the subtitle.
- fishmaster 7y agoI mean, technically it is sending signals to earth, just not in the way this headline suggests.
- Meditato 7y agoClickbait Title. It's not sending the signals "to Earth". It's millions of light years away and is non-directional.
- HenryKissinger 7y agoYou're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
- dylan604 7y agoSmall moves Ellie, small moves
- based2 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
- 1024core 7y agoIt is 500 million light years away. So whoever sent that (assuming it was a sentient being) is 500 million years old now....
- BuckRogers 7y agoJust to clear the air (or space), aliens are closer to the bottom of the probability list.