Scientists — real ones, not the Bill Nye type, but honest to goodness scientists — have found repeating radio signals in space. These aren’t the normal bursts that happen from time to time. These are happening again and again. And, the source is repeating, but the actual pattern of the bursts isn’t.
This was in the news recently, but was actually first reported a year ago. Not many really picked up on that.
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but … well, you know.
So, what’s going on? I tell you what I think. I think the aliens want to tell us something. But what?
Could they be offering us the secrets of the universe? Could they be telling us our Space Shuttle warranty is about to expire and we need to press ‘5’ to talks to a representative?
What do you think is going on?
They are asking to “Send more Chuck Berry.”
“Stop leaving your junk on the moon!”
“Drink your Ovaltine.”
Definitely the warranty on space shuttle has expired, so that’s probably it.
Alien Muslim outreach program.
Is “Alahu Akbar” Arabic for “it’s a trap”? Asking for a friend.
These are clearly the replies to the messages that we recently started sending into space. Given the time warp possibilities, they may be answers to questions we have yet to ask.
(and you thought google was impressive)
If one of those answers is in reply to “”Who won Super Bowl LIII?” don’t tell my bookie.
Nobody is going to care about this once we start getting video feed.
Video will kill the radio star?
Extra Bacon ~~~
purrfection
Someone messaging for a sh!tload of of dimes.
What!! Did they leave that toll both out in the middle of the desert…what’ll that a**hole La Petomane think of next?
It could be an Imperial code. It isn’t friendly whatever it is.
A bit old, but it checks out.
Taking the question seriously, it’s going to be some kind of stellar phenomena. When broadcasting using an omnidirectional antenna, the original power broadcast is spread out over the surface of the expanding sphere formed by the signal. At interstellar distances, the amount of power received by a one square kilometer antenna is so low it is well below the background noise of the universe. I did the math once, and if I recall correctly it was 1 x 10^-29 watts when starting with a gigawatt transmission (our most powerful RF source that I know of is only 7 MW). So, 0.0 …1 watts, with the “…” substituting for 27 zeros. A directional antenna that, say, directs all the power down a cone that is 1% the volume of a sphere raises that power to 1 x 10 -27 watts. In order to use radio to communicate over even a single parsec requires both sending and receiving antennas the size of the moon, and of course, they have to be pointing very precisely at each other.
Alright everyone calm down I, zzyzx have discovered what they want and it’s all on record……………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNOVlG1Zqq8
I found this very entertaining!
When was it made — the Fifties?
If so:
Precursor to Stan Freberg.
Backwards playback, predating the Beatles, at 3:07
And immediately after that, a dead-ringer precursor of Homer Simpson saying “I want them to go back where they came from!” So similar, if they did it today, The Simpsons would sue them.
Forgotten History!
They were sued for this, for copyright infringement, but (I believe) were found innocent.
I’m not sure, but I thought I saw Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, and Vampira wandering a graveyard earlier.