AUDIO: SCIENTISTS RECORD MYSTERIOUS RADIO WAVES FROM DEEP SPACE
Scientists who search for signs of intelligent life in the universe have detected a series of mysterious radio signals from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years away. The group called Breakthrough Listen say they’ve found 15 fast radio bursts, or FRBs, from a deep space “repeater” called FRB 121102. The first signal was heard on Nov. 2, 2012. While a few other FRBs have been detected, what makes this one unique is that it was heard again in 2015, and its location pinpointed a year later. Instruments at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia last Saturday detected 15 bursts over the entire 4 to 8 gigahertz frequency band. Individual bursts of radio waves can pop up anywhere in this wide range of frequencies. While scientists don’t know what is causing the fast radio bursts, they don’t think it’s anything to do with aliens.
* Ask Jodie Foster. She’d know.
* Looking for intelligent life via radio? I hope no aliens are listening to this show.
* 3 billion light years away, so that means their radio is still playing Taylor Swift country songs, before she switched.
* Please don’t call them dwarf galaxies. They’re little people galaxies.
* (After playing clip below) Oh my god – Space Birds!
* They’re shooting lasers at us! Pew pew pew!!
* One scientist claims to have decoded the radio waves. He says it translates into “Eat … your … Ovaltine”.
CLIP: No joke – this is what the scientists heard, although they have been edited closer together.
