Alien-hunting artificial intelligence detects dozens of deep space mystery signals

fatbob5 wrote:An artificial intelligence built to find evidence of extraterrestrial life has detected 72 mysterious signals emanating from deep space. 


A system built by the Breakthrough Listen project spotted new fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a ‘repeater’ called FRB 121102 that’s 3 billion light-years away from Earth. ......


https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/10/alien-hunting-artificial-intelligence-detects-dozens-of-deep-space-mystery-signals-7931720/

fatbob5 wrote:An artificial intelligence built to find evidence of extraterrestrial life has detected 72 mysterious signals emanating from deep space. 


A system built by the Breakthrough Listen project spotted new fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a ‘repeater’ called FRB 121102 that’s 3 billion light-years away from Earth. ......


https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/10/alien-hunting-artificial-intelligence-detects-dozens-of-deep-space-mystery-signals-7931720/

Flix wrote:There are all sorts of signals in space, if its regular it's probably natural as has been said, if its irregular its more likely to be artificial, as in communications which I suppose could be fairly regular but must have times when it isn't, if you see what I mean.

Flap Zappa wrote:
natural occurrences, like all the others ones they have found.

Flap Zappa wrote:
bearing in mind that it has taken us 4.5billion years to get to this point and at best our electronic footprint is only around 100 light years out (5.879e+14 miles), it is not surprising that that there are not huge numbers of signals from other civilisations.

fatbob5 wrote:

Flap Zappa wrote:
bearing in mind that it has taken us 4.5billion years to get to this point and at best our electronic footprint is only around 100 light years out (5.879e+14 miles), it is not surprising that that there are not huge numbers of signals from other civilisations.

A Sphere of 100 light year radius

V= 4/3.πR^3

V = 4.19  *10^6 Cubic Light Years

That's a lot of space

Flap Zappa wrote:
not in the terms of the universe though. It's not even 10% of our galaxy, let alone the trillions of other galaxies

andromeda is 2.5million light years away

fatbob5 wrote:

Flap Zappa wrote:
not in the terms of the universe though. It's not even 10% of our galaxy, let alone the trillions of other galaxies

andromeda is 2.5million light years away

Dean, do you think that the Universe is Infinite in size ?

fatbob5 wrote:I wonder what Trump is hiding from the world

Flap Zappa wrote:
to think otherwise means you would find an edge, and what is on the other side of that.

smelly-bandit wrote:

Oh he has something good up his sleeve. Its called reelection

fatbob5 wrote:I dont mind the idea of Aliens visiting Earth
 *** As Long As *** , they are friendly left wing aliens rather than nasty right wing ones

fatbob5 wrote:I dont mind the idea of Aliens visiting Earth
 *** As Long As *** , they are friendly left wing aliens rather than nasty right wing ones

fatbob5 wrote:
No Chance

smelly-bandit wrote:

If aliens came here they would wipe humanity out. 

Any alien lifeforms who have the ability to travel through 
space will have already done their research and know that humans are inherently hostile and would move against us without even giving us the chance to screw it up. 

Never mind the rape of europe by illegal Muslim immigrants, alien visitors would make that look like happy days

Flix wrote:If they have as much sense as technology, they'll take a look and turn around and go somewhere else.

fatbob5 wrote:
Its just a gut feeling, but I suspect that the technology required to fly through Interstellar space is so incredibly advanced that any species acquiring would already have the ability to terraform planets and therefore would have no need to ' invade' planets which can already support life.
The ' Independence Day' alien which Will Smith punched in the Kisser - doesnt make sense.
It would resemble a human race that has discovered Nuclear energy but not yet learnt how to use Electricity