2010: The year THEY make contact

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

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There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

 

"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.

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Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

Look Up , THEY are coming

it's probably just another autechre broadcast, n00b

black holes

ET thread.

Coast to Coast WATMM

maybe it is the ISLAND!

It's Rama

OMG NEW APHEX

  On 4/15/2010 at 7:19 PM, patternoverlap said:

It's Rama

Please don't tell Gentry Lee.

  On 4/15/2010 at 7:30 PM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

OMG NEW APHEX

lol

  On 4/15/2010 at 6:40 PM, Boxing Day said:

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Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

BULLSHIT.

even if this were true, it'd be incapable of being measured.

This is the limited edition copy of Black Holes, had to be pressed in another galaxy because of sample licensing issues.

  On 4/15/2010 at 8:09 PM, margaret thatcher said:

  On 4/15/2010 at 6:40 PM, Boxing Day said:

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Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

 

BULLSHIT.

even if this were true, it'd be incapable of being measured.

"apparent" sideways velocity. It's basically just an illusion.

  On 4/15/2010 at 8:09 PM, margaret thatcher said:

  On 4/15/2010 at 6:40 PM, Boxing Day said:

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Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light

 

BULLSHIT.

even if this were true, it'd be incapable of being measured.

why? clearly if they can locate a "source" and determine that the source is "moving" they should be able to calculate how fast its suppoesdly going?

apparent sideways velocity? is this because of the curvature of space?

my very limited understanding of relativity suggests that if an object travelled faster than the speed of light, you could not give it a fixed location at any particular time.

  On 4/15/2010 at 8:26 PM, margaret thatcher said:

apparent sideways velocity? is this because of the curvature of space?

 

my very limited understanding of relativity suggests that if an object travelled faster than the speed of light, you could not give it a fixed location at any particular time.

you can, in the particular times when it is fixed and not moving

Yeah the 4 times velocity thing is an illusion the stated that already.

no, i mean, if an object is moving at a velocity below the velocity of light, you can tell where it is at a given time.

if it's traveling faster than the velocity of light, it will not appear in an environment at any given time, because it has travelled faster than its environment.

i'm not very good at explaining this. i never did relativity for my maths degree, only shite like mathematical finance and complex functions.

ok ok it says it's an illusion, fair enough. still sounds dubious to me.

awesome, Jodrell Bank aint far from me....went on a few school trips there as a kid

im scared

probably nothing, just a newly discovered natural phenomenon. we aren't that lucky that it would be aliens and i am sure if it would be from an alien origin, we wouldn't have heard about it in the first place.

so many lols in this thread

lol

Everyone knows that inteligent civizilations doesn't use radio for comunication.

I was gonna post this, but then i read the article.