Alien numbers station discovered?

[4x4Tyke]

Fast radio bursts are a bit of puzzle but are unlikely to be aliens, but this is interesting anyway. Astronomers closing in on source of mysterious fast radio bursts

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Eric Mc said:

Every week there is an "aliens discovered" headline.

Only for a much more low key "Ahem, it wasn't aliens" headline to be announced a few weeks later.

I was trying to parody those kind of headlines, this is science after all

[4x4Tyke]

eldar said:

Given they were from 3,000,000,000 light years away we aren't going to be having a chat with them...

Yes, and given the vastness of the distances involved, even a tiny amount of precession or relative movement through space would make many of these, single events from our perspective.