Alien hunters pick up over a dozen strange new signals from a distant galaxy

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/02/alien-hunters-pick-up-over-a-d.html

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Drink more Ovaltine.

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They owe me the plans to my Interociter.

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What if the signals have alien DRM far in advance of our own?

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Just blueprints for a surprisingly disappointing amusement park ride.

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Turn out the lights when you’re done.

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So something happened there… 3 billion years ago. Probably something fell into a black hole.

But it’s aliens.

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“SEE…YOU…IN…THREE…BILLION…AND…ONE…YEARS.”

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Scientology will be sending Darth Cruise to recover those stolen plans!

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Hmmm… is it sending death threats?

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It’s 3 billion light years away, so: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”

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Swamp gas caught in a thermal pocket reflecting the light of Venus.

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“If wishes were horses, we’d all be eating steak.”

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“PLEASE… HAVE… PLANETARY… TITLE… PAPERS…AND… SPECIES… VINDICATION… DOCUMENT…(FORM 812 + 76311A)… READY… FOR… INSPECTION”

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Alien hunters

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I’ve always wondered – from whom?

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“If you earthlings don’t impeach soon, we’re going to nuke him from orbit.”

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Fast radio bursts come from all over the sky so they are unlikely to be the result of intelligence.

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But aren’t FRBs so intense they’d be theoretically impossible if they aren’t lasers?

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