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

[AndreaJames]

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

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[TobinL]

Drink more Ovaltine.

[TheGreatParis]

They owe me the plans to my Interociter.

[vonbobo]

[RickMycroft]

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

[Brainspore]

Just blueprints for a surprisingly disappointing amusement park ride.

[Papasan]

Turn out the lights when you’re done.

[Boundegar]

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

But it’s aliens.

[Brainspore]

@Boundegar

So something happened there… 3 billion years ago.

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

[RickMycroft]

@Brainspore

Just blueprints for a surprisingly disappointing amusement park ride.

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

[Ashen_Victor]

Hmmm… is it sending death threats?

[p96]

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

[KathyPartdeux]

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

[MaiqTheLiar]

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

[teknocholer]

@Brainspore

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

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

[One_Brown_Mouse]

Alien hunters

^{no extraterrestrials were harmed in the making of this joke}

[anon55609254]

@p96

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

I’ve always wondered – from whom?

[Sqyntz]

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

[Michael_R_Smith]

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

[Kimmo]

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