Wild New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships

[Blackleaf]

You're assuming that there is only one universe.

No, I'm not. I'm talking about our universe. To travel from Earth to the edge of the OBSERVABLE universe AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT (186,000 miles per second) would take you 46 billion years, over three times the length of time that the universe has existed for.

So we can assume that there's a fair amount of stuff out there that alien spaceships can gather up as fuel.

 

[Curious Cdn]

No, I'm not. I'm talking about our universe. To travel from Earth to the edge of the OBSERVABLE universe AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT (186,000 miles per second) would take you 46 billion years, over three times the length of time that the universe has existed for.

So we can assume that there's a fair amount of stuff out there that alien spaceships can gather up as fuel.

hint ... Interstellar hydrogen ... you fuse it together into helium and the lost mass from that produces a major shytepile of energy.

 

[Blackleaf]

hint ... Interstellar hydrogen ... you fuse it together into helium and the lost mass from that produces a major shytepile of energy.

My reckoning is that at least some of them use dark matter.

 

[Curious Cdn]

My reckoning is that at least some of them use dark matter.

Darth told to do in a dream?

 

[Blackleaf]

As for how aliens manage to traverse such vast distances: remember that the first circumnavigation of the world took three years (started by Magellan in 1519 and completed by Elcano in 1522). Now we have the technology to circumnavigate the globe in 44 hours. In Magellan's time, such a feat would have seemed forever impossible.

 

[Curious Cdn]

As for how aliens manage to traverse such vast distances: remember that the first circumnavigation of the world took three years (started by Magellan in 1519 and completed by Elcano in 1522). Now we have the technology to circumnavigate the globe in 44 hours.

Yes but ...even assuming that the supposed Aliens have found a way to make a liar out of Einstein, those radio bursts are arriving at the speed of light. Some of them appear to come from another galaxy, so the alleged aliens may have been "jumping into hyperdrive" around the time that our ancestor's fins were morphing into legs.

Mysterious radio bursts originate outside the Milky Way | Science | AAAS

 

[Blackleaf]

Yes but ...even assuming that the supposed Aliens have found a way to make a liar out of Einstein, those radio bursts are arriving at the speed of light. Some of them appear to come from another galaxy, so the alleged aliens may have been "jumping into hyperdrive" around the time that our ancestor's fins were morphing into legs.

Mysterious radio bursts originate outside the Milky Way | Science | AAAS

Maybe they have the technology to temporarily bend space to make distances between them and their destinations shorter.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Maybe they have the technology to temporarily bend space to make distances between them and their destinations shorter.

Maybe so but the "side effects" bursts that we see have travelled to us at the speed of light. One has been measured as having travelled three billion light years. If they did bend space-time to travel, they did it a very, very long time ago.

 

[Blackleaf]

Maybe so but the "side effects" bursts that we see have travelled to us at the speed of light. One has been measured as having travelled three billion light years. If they did bend space-time to travel, they did it a very, very long time ago.

That's not beyond the realms of possibility. Their home planets could be older than ours. They may have been travelling intergalactically before our Solar System was formed.

 

[Curious Cdn]

That's not beyond the realms of possibility. Their home planets could be older than ours.

Their home planet may be long gone, by now. We-re only just getting their news from three billion years ago.

 

[Blackleaf]

Their home planet may be long gone, by now. We-re only just getting their news from three billion years ago.

Yep. And three billion years from now someone out there might pick up images of Vera Duckworth croaking it in her armchair.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Yep. And three billion years from now somneone out there might pick up imaged of Vera Duckworth croaking it in her armchair.

That'll be made into the Monster Alien Movie-of-the-Week on some planet that hasn't even cooled, yet.


By the way, those radio bursts are called Lorimer Bursts.

 

[Blackleaf]

That'll be made into the Monster Alien Movie-of-the-Week on some planet that hasn't even cooled, yet.


By the way, those radio bursts are called Lorimer Bursts.

Typical of a scientist to name something after himself.