No connection whatsoever. We have received radio "signals" from space since the accidental invention of radio astronomy in 1933. No more weird than receiving visual "signals" called starlight. Many stars are observed to pulsate, and this is just another example.
These are Fast Radio Bursts and very recently discovered (2007). As I have said many times before though most space related stories are comms of some kind.
Note that within this wiki it relates the power of a FRB when it reaches earth as 1000 times less than what a cell phone on the moon would generate and that in the second article quoted that 100 or more of these reach earth everyday with a very small chance at detection.
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond, for a ultra-fast radio burst,[2][3] to 3 seconds,[4] caused by some high-energy astrophysical process not yet understood. Astronomers estimate the average FRB releases as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun puts out in three days.[5] While extremely energetic at their source, the strength of the signal reaching Earth has been described as 1,000 times less than from a mobile phone on the Moon.[6] The first FRB was discovered by Duncan Lorimer and his student David Narkevic in 2007 when they were looking through archival pulsar survey data, and it is therefore commonly referred to as the Lorimer Burst.[7][8] Many FRBs have since been recorded, including several that have been detected to repeat in seemingly irregular ways.[9][10][11][12][13] Only one FRB has been detected to repeat in a regular way: FRB 180916 seems to pulse every 16.35 days.[14][15]
Fast radio bursts are intense bursts of radio emission that have durations of milliseconds and exhibit the characteristic dispersion sweep of radio pulsars. The first was discovered in 2007 by Lorimer et al., although it was actually observed some six years earlier, in archival data from a pulsar survey of the Magellanic clouds. It was dubbed the “Lorimer Burst”.
Like giant pulses from radio pulsars like the Crab, the first burst was extremely intense (30 Jy peak flux) and observed across a 288 MHz radio band. The dispersion measure of the radio burst was 375 pc cm-3 and was near the location of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The limited dynamic range of the instrumentation prohibited an exact measure of the flux, but it has been estimated that several 100 bursts could occur every day with a small probability of detection.
Good dig. I recall reading that certain stars (neutron stars, I think) become pulsars and emit strong signals along their rotational axis. The likelihood of detection would therefore be related to the coincidence of being within the cone of radiation. But there are more stars out there than we can see, so there is no shortage of cases that would work.
Should have sticked to the hot space vixens,dipshits.
Everyone is in such a burned out emocional state that I dont see anything short of nukes going off, massive internet shutdowns or Trump sending "The tweet" causing any meaningful reaction.
The cause of these fast radio bursts is unknown. Several hundred reach earth every day with little chance at detectyion because the amount of energy is 1000 times less than what would hit earth from a cell phone on the moon.
The sauce for this comment is in a reply to DeathRayDesigner above.
Not targeted in any way. Planets, comets, stars, and galaxies all generate or reflect electromagnetic energy at many different wavelengths. Some of the energy they emit is in the form of very large wavelengths called radio waves.
A radio wave isn't a beam of energy ; more like dropping a rock in a pond.
Unfortunately, "popular science" articles are written to a low intellectual standard, demanding something visual, and they have only cartoons to carry the burden. It would be better to think of it as a kind of schematic of what happened. The real data is probably a blip on a strip of graph paper (old school). Not very inspiring.
No connection whatsoever. We have received radio "signals" from space since the accidental invention of radio astronomy in 1933. No more weird than receiving visual "signals" called starlight. Many stars are observed to pulsate, and this is just another example.
These are Fast Radio Bursts and very recently discovered (2007). As I have said many times before though most space related stories are comms of some kind.
Note that within this wiki it relates the power of a FRB when it reaches earth as 1000 times less than what a cell phone on the moon would generate and that in the second article quoted that 100 or more of these reach earth everyday with a very small chance at detection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/F/Fast+Radio+Bursts
Good dig. I recall reading that certain stars (neutron stars, I think) become pulsars and emit strong signals along their rotational axis. The likelihood of detection would therefore be related to the coincidence of being within the cone of radiation. But there are more stars out there than we can see, so there is no shortage of cases that would work.
that's what I was thinking...
Should have sticked to the hot space vixens,dipshits.
Everyone is in such a burned out emocional state that I dont see anything short of nukes going off, massive internet shutdowns or Trump sending "The tweet" causing any meaningful reaction.
Remember Lahaina? I do.
https://weather.com/science/space/video/enormously-powerful-radio-burst-from-space
Is it the aliens?
So, what generated radio waves that eventually arrived at earth?
The cause of these fast radio bursts is unknown. Several hundred reach earth every day with little chance at detectyion because the amount of energy is 1000 times less than what would hit earth from a cell phone on the moon.
The sauce for this comment is in a reply to DeathRayDesigner above.
They don't know, but radio waves permeate space.
Better question is, what are the odds of targeted radio waves travelling 8 billion light years and hitting Earth?
Not targeted in any way. Planets, comets, stars, and galaxies all generate or reflect electromagnetic energy at many different wavelengths. Some of the energy they emit is in the form of very large wavelengths called radio waves.
A radio wave isn't a beam of energy ; more like dropping a rock in a pond.
I agree totally, but the above image implies otherwise.
Unfortunately, "popular science" articles are written to a low intellectual standard, demanding something visual, and they have only cartoons to carry the burden. It would be better to think of it as a kind of schematic of what happened. The real data is probably a blip on a strip of graph paper (old school). Not very inspiring.
And I will totally agree to that :D