'Mysterious radio bursts' in outer space detected by alien-hunting artificial intelligence

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

© NASA 'Mysterious radio bursts' in outer space detected by alien-hunting artificial intelligence

E.T. may have been trying to "phone home" but new evidence suggests he may now be trying to reach us.

Unusual and "mysterious radio bursts" have been detected 3 billion light years away from Earth, thanks to an artificial intelligence program at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Researchers at SETI used a machine-learning algorithm to uncover 72 new "fast radio bursts" (FRB) previously unidentified. The FRBs are coming from galaxy FRB 121102. When combined with the 21 FRBs previously found on Aug. 26, 2017, the total now comes to new 93 FRBs discovered.

“Not all discoveries come from new observations,” Pete Worden, executive director of Breakthrough Initiatives, a SETI project, said in a statement. “In this case, it was smart, original thinking applied to an existing dataset. It has advanced our knowledge of one of the most tantalizing mysteries in astronomy.”

"This work is only the beginning of using these powerful methods to find radio transients,” said Gerry Zhang in the statement. “We hope our success may inspire other serious endeavors in applying machine learning to radio astronomy."

It's still unclear what is causing the FRBs, with SETI describing their source and mechanism as "mysterious." Theories include "highly magnetized neutron stars, blasted by gas streams near to a supermassive black hole, to suggestions that the burst properties are consistent with signatures of technology developed by an advanced civilization."


What makes the FRBs that are emanating from FRB 121102 interesting is that these are usually one-time events. However, FRB 121102 has been unusually active since it was discovered in 2012, with researchers calling it a "repeater."

The researchers used the scientific program Breakthrough Listen to help go through 400 TB of data and find the 21 bursts, which were all seen within one hour, "suggesting that the source alternates between periods of quiescence and frenzied activity."

History of FRBs
It's unknown how common FRBs actually are.

FRBs, which were first discovered in 2007, are relatively new to astronomers and their origins are mysterious. According to ScienceAlert, some of them can generate as much energy as 500 million Suns in a few milliseconds.

Last month, an FRB that hit Earth was nearly 200 megahertz lower than any other radio burst ever detected.

The origin of the FRB discovered in late July may have stemmed from a number of events, such as evaporating black holes and erupting neutron stars, according to Nature.

However, astronomers, including those from Harvard, have also previously said they could not rule out that FRBs may stem from advanced civilizations deep in space.

If the truth is indeed out there, it might just be 3 billion light years away from home.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/tech...icial-intelligence/ar-BBNdlDE?ocid=spartanntp

 

[Tshering22]

You know, if there was indeed a planet faring race of aliens in our galaxy, we would have either been wiped out or taken over long ago. Sure, there is life on other planets; maybe in other galaxies outside Milky Way. We are definitely not alone.

But the distances are so huge that someone living about 2,000 Lightyears away and observing us might be actually seeing either stone-age men or dinosaurs roaming the earth as the light from our planet will take that many lightyears to reach them.

Same is the case with us.

When we observe some form of microbial life on some other planet in another galaxy, it is likely that they might be advanced beings, but we might be seeing their past.

The only way to truly conduct interplanetary exploration is not through booster rockets but through faster-than-light speeds through the sci-fi wormholes.

 

[Foo_Fighter]

Whatever it is, as per the article it anyway is 3 Billion old story. Good read but no practical use in reality.

 

[MrSato1]

You know, if there was indeed a planet faring race of aliens in our galaxy, we would have either been wiped out or taken over long ago. Sure, there is life on other planets; maybe in other galaxies outside Milky Way. We are definitely not alone.

But the distances are so huge that someone living about 2,000 Lightyears away and observing us might be actually seeing either stone-age men or dinosaurs roaming the earth as the light from our planet will take that many lightyears to reach them.

Same is the case with us.

When we observe some form of microbial life on some other planet in another galaxy, it is likely that they might be advanced beings, but we might be seeing their past.

The only way to truly conduct interplanetary exploration is not through booster rockets but through faster-than-light speeds through the sci-fi wormholes.

You have no idea what you’re talking about, guve ut a rest!

© NASA 'Mysterious radio bursts' in outer space detected by alien-hunting artificial intelligence

E.T. may have been trying to "phone home" but new evidence suggests he may now be trying to reach us.

Unusual and "mysterious radio bursts" have been detected 3 billion light years away from Earth, thanks to an artificial intelligence program at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Researchers at SETI used a machine-learning algorithm to uncover 72 new "fast radio bursts" (FRB) previously unidentified. The FRBs are coming from galaxy FRB 121102. When combined with the 21 FRBs previously found on Aug. 26, 2017, the total now comes to new 93 FRBs discovered.

“Not all discoveries come from new observations,” Pete Worden, executive director of Breakthrough Initiatives, a SETI project, said in a statement. “In this case, it was smart, original thinking applied to an existing dataset. It has advanced our knowledge of one of the most tantalizing mysteries in astronomy.”

"This work is only the beginning of using these powerful methods to find radio transients,” said Gerry Zhang in the statement. “We hope our success may inspire other serious endeavors in applying machine learning to radio astronomy."

It's still unclear what is causing the FRBs, with SETI describing their source and mechanism as "mysterious." Theories include "highly magnetized neutron stars, blasted by gas streams near to a supermassive black hole, to suggestions that the burst properties are consistent with signatures of technology developed by an advanced civilization."


What makes the FRBs that are emanating from FRB 121102 interesting is that these are usually one-time events. However, FRB 121102 has been unusually active since it was discovered in 2012, with researchers calling it a "repeater."

The researchers used the scientific program Breakthrough Listen to help go through 400 TB of data and find the 21 bursts, which were all seen within one hour, "suggesting that the source alternates between periods of quiescence and frenzied activity."

History of FRBs
It's unknown how common FRBs actually are.

FRBs, which were first discovered in 2007, are relatively new to astronomers and their origins are mysterious. According to ScienceAlert, some of them can generate as much energy as 500 million Suns in a few milliseconds.

Last month, an FRB that hit Earth was nearly 200 megahertz lower than any other radio burst ever detected.

The origin of the FRB discovered in late July may have stemmed from a number of events, such as evaporating black holes and erupting neutron stars, according to Nature.

However, astronomers, including those from Harvard, have also previously said they could not rule out that FRBs may stem from advanced civilizations deep in space.

If the truth is indeed out there, it might just be 3 billion light years away from home.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/tech...icial-intelligence/ar-BBNdlDE?ocid=spartanntp

The mention of 3 billion years makes this news useless, not exause its old news, but because of distance. Its so ridiculously far away that even if we were in start trek level tech it would still take 300 million years to reach going at ten times the speed of light. Currently we have yet to reah 2.5% of the speed of light much less 1000x

 

[Imran Khan]

they may have FM for play music

 

[rambro]

3 billion light years away

We cant reach them but they canreach us, i hope they are hostile. Time for us to get a taste of our own medicine.

How does it feel hanumans, how does it feel to be at the brink of extinction.

 

[PakSword]

You know, if there was indeed a planet faring race of aliens in our galaxy, we would have either been wiped out or taken over long ago. Sure, there is life on other planets; maybe in other galaxies outside Milky Way. We are definitely not alone.

But the civilization that might have found us, would have left us alone as by the time we were found, they might have found another 100,000 civilizations in milky way and different other galaxies.

So we were like a colony of harmless insects living in a distant part of the huge galactic forest.. and they don't want us to become extinct..

Besides that, we fight each other over resources and land. An advanced civilization has no reason to worry about these two things.. There are trillions and trillions of planets made of precious useful substances, there are trillions and trillions of stars for energy, and there are trillions and trillions of planets in habitable zones. Those planets might be more beautiful and resourceful than ours. So I don't see a single reason of proving dominance over us..

even if we were in start trek level tech it would still take 300 million years to reach going at ten times the speed of light.

Not if we somehow discover how to bend the space using a black hole and reach from any point in the space to another point in a blink of an eye..