Earth bombarded by strange radio wave outbursts

[packman]

Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments' detectors with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the source of the shrieks, in the hope of explaining what's sending them to Earth from — researchers suspect — billions of light-years across space.



https://www.space.com/fast-radio-bursts-australia-artificial-intelligence.html

[Control-Z]

1. Cool!

I love this kind of stuff!!

[Fla Dem]

2. So if it was some advanced alien race sending those signals out into space,

just like we do now, they were sent trillions of years ago. Pretty sure they're still not waiting for an answer.

[Laffy Kat]

3. I hope it's the first indication that aliens are coming for us.

Please, please, please happen in my lifetime.

[onethatcares]

4. robocalls!!!!!

stop one and they find away to start another.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Those are actually just Trump's tweets bouncing off the Moon.

and confusing our astronomers, per my 5-second highly scientific analysis.

Just look at the symptoms from the article....

* Mysterious, Ancient....
* Signals Keep Pelting the Earth....
* Sudden shrieks of waves.....
* Weird, unexplained signals.....
* Confusing data.....
* Out-of-place spikes in the data......
* Complex, mysterious structures.....
* Arrive at random times and places......

If not tRump's tweets, perhaps Conway's, Nunes' or Grassley's?.......

[frogmarch]

6. One theory

There are many theories that attempt to explain FRBs. Here's one:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-now-think-they-can-explain-fast-radio-bursts-20190228/

snip:

Now Metzger and his colleagues think they have reconstructed the crime scene. Earlier this month they released a paper on the scientific preprint site arxiv.org that sketched out a way for FRBs to arise from explosions in regions of space cluttered with dense clouds of particles and magnetic fields.

The model favors, but doesn’t require, a magnetar as the source of the explosions. A magnetar is a young neutron star that sometimes burps out charged particles in a supersize version of the coronal mass ejections that erupt on the sun. Each new blast plows into the surrounding clutter. When it does, it creates a shock wave, which in turn beams a short, laserlike flash of radio waves halfway across the universe.