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Mysterious radio burst from space is unusually close–and especially baffling
- Kaibeezy 5y ago“Not aliens” but sure makes sense to follow standard Imperial procedure and let your comms float away with the rest of the garbage.
- Kaibeezy 5y agoYou know, like they're hiding their message in something that could be seen as natural.
- emc3 5y ago> located 11.7 million light-years from Earth I might consider 11.7 light-years "unusual" or "baffling." But times that by a million and it becomes a lot less so.
- tlholaday 5y agoAhh, so blasé. The farthest observable galaxy is 1.34 x 10^10 light years. This FRB is 1.17 x 10^7 light years. So if you're at zero and end of the line is at 1340, this FRB is at 1.17. That doesn't feel close?
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- eindiran 5y agoIf you told me that the Mediterranean dried up "recently", with no other context, and you were referring to Messinian salinity crisis from 5 MYBP it would significantly limit my belief in your adherence to good-faith conversational form even if it is "recently" in a geological sense.
- perl4ever 5y agoI think the article says it's 40 times nearer than the previous closest, which seems more relevant than the farthest galaxy.
- mgarfias 5y agoThe “Nearby” in the titles needed to be in scare quotes.
- pmastela 5y agohttps://outline.com/wtm5hh https://outline.com/wtm5hh
- iJohnDoe 5y agoIt’s actually just an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk and was heard because swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the sound from Venus.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoGreat! Now we have to neuralize you.
- animanoir 5y agoNational Geographic always makes this kind of clickbait titles.
- denton-scratch 5y agoHey, NatGeo doesn't bother me. I know it's NatGeo, so I discount it accordingly. I reckon it's pretty interesting that the scientists claim to have "conclusively proved" that this very high-energy event occurred in a globular cluster. The article is quite right to note that that's not supposed to happen. Violent cosmic events don't happen in globular clusters.