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Radio wave bursts detected from roughly 3 billion light years away.
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SuperStiltzkin
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Keyser Soze
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Santa?
Patrick S.
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We are not allein...
What's that?
Catch Arrival in theaters now to find out
TemplaerDude
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Can you imagine aliens coming down while Trump is president ha ha oh man America you are fucking crazy.
valkillmore
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It is alayans
They move at the speed of light therefore you answered your own question. Anyway it's three billion years.
Host Samurai
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Hopefully the Dyson Sphere type 2 civilization aliens.
Would aliens even have languages?
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
It would be funny if this was a bunch of alien teenagers messing around.
"Dude look at this underdeveloped planet"
"Haha, I bet they would totally freak if we sent a message to them"
"Isn't that like, illegal?"
"Just do it. What are you, a loser?"
*Enters S U P L O L in morse code, hits send*
"Dude look at this underdeveloped planet"
"Haha, I bet they would totally freak if we sent a message to them"
"Isn't that like, illegal?"
"Just do it. What are you, a loser?"
*Enters S U P L O L in morse code, hits send*
Airola
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valkillmore
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Dude. Write the short story.
At first I was gonna laugh, but that's just a tad bit scary.Oh wow!! :O
LookAtMeGo
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And I think it would be the most amazing thing to discover something like that. Kinda like if aliens pick up that golden record thing with music and coordinates to earth we sent out into space way back when. They find it and come to earth and find nothing but robot dinosaurs.
exmachina64
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Are you American? You could run for Congress on that platform.
Given the age of the universe, it's likely to have happened numerous times.
We will have given them the most badass theme park and archaeological site in one place.
Too bad they won't understand the significance of the arrow
LookAtMeGo
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As of 2010 we had discovered about 1,800 neutron stars. I'm assuming that number is plenty higher now. I'm just wondering why if this was to be a neutron star, why it would be doing this when others aren't? You would think that it would have been observed by this point by one of the many other stars.
Which is why I find this fascinating. A neutron star is the probably the best candidate for an explaination at this point. I wonder if there is some other type of star we just have not discovered yet. Its still probably aliens though.
Which is why I find this fascinating. A neutron star is the probably the best candidate for an explaination at this point. I wonder if there is some other type of star we just have not discovered yet. Its still probably aliens though.
Generalpsyduck
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Oh wow!! :O
Dafuq?
-Stranger-
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It's the reapers
Lovely Salsa
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Think about this
What if intelligent civilization exists only 1 per galaxy. That would mean there are 2+ trillion ETs out there ....only problem is we'll never be able to communicate with each other and/or see if the other exists
What if intelligent civilization exists only 1 per galaxy. That would mean there are 2+ trillion ETs out there ....only problem is we'll never be able to communicate with each other and/or see if the other exists
Escape Goat
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Not true. When Andromeda blows through the Milky Way we can wave hello.
Lovely Salsa
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We will be long dead by then
Escape Goat
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Dieing is for quitters.
If I'm correct, it might just be that it's the only one in the right position to hit us with the signal.
Gnome Scat
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"U got Kik?"
Sky is gonna be too bright to enjoy anything anyway
but right before it hits it'll look pretty cool
Angelus Errare
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The universe and time are a circle, it's us from the far future sending out an SOS to any intelligent species that can help fight off the super predator species.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
We are aliens in ailens eyes so therefore we are.
I FIND THIS RESPONSE LACKING.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Sooooo you're telling me there's a chance!?
TarpitCarnivore
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I wonder if they were green radio waves.
LookAtMeGo
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You maybe thinking of a pulsar/neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation in one direction (well 2). I dont think this is the same thing. I could be wrong though.
Edit: pulsars emit a beam as they rotate/pulse and the beam can only be observed when its pointed toward earth. Quasars shoot out a giant beam in one direction from a supermassive black hole.
Wouldn't the sun also be expanding by then, possibly killing everything on Earth?Sky is gonna be too bright to enjoy anything anyway
but right before it hits it'll look pretty cool
And that's the only information we can get from those far away places. We have no idea of their current state, except for extrapolating their trajectories and the estimated lifespan of each star.
Termina could very well have eaten most of them and we won't know until it's too late.
Calm Mind
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I vote this. It's probably a warning from our future selves. Trump is the linchpin.
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