First Contact

[Stan the Bat]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-6015054...

Just waiting for our reply.

[eharding]

Stan the Bat said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-6015054...

Just waiting for our reply.

Given the round trip time, I've been trying to get Alexa to set an alarm for the 28th of January 10022 to remind me to check if we get a reply to our reply, as I'm bound to forget - but she's not having it.

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe it's the Vogon Construction fleet building the intergalactic highway for the hyperspace express route. The radio energy being sent out every 18 minutes is when the fleet has to reverse to fill in the holes.

[Pupp]

Saw this reported a couple of days ago and it made me think of a planning case I was involved with in a village near Jodrell Bank a couple of years ago,

The radio telescope guys at JB were objecting (vociferously) to a development of half a dozen dwellings in the middle of the village due to fears that EMI resulting from domestic gadgets would disrupt their pulsar observations. Maybe the Curtin Uni refectory has a particularly leaky old microwave,,,

Mind boggling discovery; great spot for the student

[Stan the Bat]

Yes, I love these new discoveries .

Never a dull day with Astronomy.

[Jim1064]

It could be a magnetar with a very slow rate of rotation

[skeeterm5]

Maybe radiation leakage through an incomplete and rotating Dyson sphere.

[Stan the Bat]

skeeterm5 said:

Maybe radiation leakage through an incomplete and rotating Dyson sphere.

Now we're talking.

[Eric Mc]

I think it's a broken down one of these and they are waiting for the AA -

[oobie38]

a 'full minute' eh.

the miracle of a cosmos-wide measurement standard.

[dudleybloke]

It means waiting to connect Bluetooth device.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Pupp said:

Saw this reported a couple of days ago and it made me think of a planning case I was involved with in a village near Jodrell Bank a couple of years ago,

The radio telescope guys at JB were objecting (vociferously) to a development of half a dozen dwellings in the middle of the village due to fears that EMI resulting from domestic gadgets would disrupt their pulsar observations. Maybe the Curtin Uni refectory has a particularly leaky old microwave,,,

Mind boggling discovery; great spot for the student

Funnily enough, my first thought was I wonder if they excluded all terrestrial sources. It wouldn't be the first time.

Surely it's just a pulsar though?

[bmwmike]

How can they tell it has a strong magnetic field? Sorry for my ignorance.

[Eric Mc]

X-Ray emissions?

[Getragdogleg]

I wonder what a "minute" is in time terms where the signal originated from.

We have arrived at our quantities of time via observing how long it takes us to do a rotation/trip around our sun.

If the timings of 1 every 18 are observed and repeatedly observed then it's either a terrestrial interference or a big coincidence that's it's presenting in our format...

[bmwmike]

Eric Mc said:

X-Ray emissions?

Thanks, make sense.

Regarding the object, good job they put a new telescope into space - could they directly image it i wonder.