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Imagine it's coming from a bunch of alien networking gear, sending packets of data across galaxies...
by isoprophlex 6y ago
Imagine it's coming from a bunch of alien networking gear, sending packets of data across galaxies...
- m00dy 6y agothen it hits the planet Earth and then package is now dropped
- jagged-chisel 6y agoIt's UDP; they don't have to care.
- kaetemi 6y agoOr, you know, it's addressed to a giant spaceship that just happens to be hanging around near Earth.
- Freestyler_3 6y agoin that case it might just be dolphins.
- zelphirkalt 6y agoThe cavemen ate our packages again! Need to clean up that pipe at some point.
- myself248 6y agoIt obstructs my view of Venus!
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThe thing with these is that they have to be very directional to even reach us, and (in the article), it mentions the bursts have the energy of a century of our sun's output; if it is alien networking gear, they'd have to be able to generate that power somehow. Dyson spheres wouldn't cut it.
- barkingcat 6y agoDyson galaxies. Also appears to us like dark matter.
- bollu 6y agoIntriguing; Is this actually serious? Like, is it possible that the unaccounted for matter (what, ~98%) is simply locked within dyson galaxies?
- avian 6y agoNo. Because of thermodynamics they would necessarily emit some thermal radiation and we’re not seeing it.
- fabiospampinato 6y agoCould it be, hypothetically, that there are so many layers in the swarm that the radiation that will get eventually be emitted is outside of what we can detect?
- gbrown 6y agoNo, given that we can map the dark matter density in galaxies - having a bunch of dark matter galaxies wouldn't explain the shapes of what we actually observe.
- marcosdumay 6y agoThere are current telescopes that detect everything down to the universe thermal radiation, and a bit bellow. There's no place to hide there.
- CamperBob2 6y agoThermodynamics doesn't require isotropic radiation. If you're going to shed a lot of waste heat, why not aim it out of the galactic plane, so as to avoid calling unnecessary attention to yourself?
- ptidhomme 6y agoWhat kind of latency would that have ... !
- isoprophlex 6y agoMaybe their consciousness runs a lot slower than ours..?
- historyremade 6y agoThey invented latency so ask them ;)
- dimastopel 6y ago"A for Andromeda" by Fred Hoyle develops this concept further.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoHexapodia is a Key insight :-)