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Daniel Butler
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My first thought was "tentative probe by ETI" but I always think that because I'm just so darned excited by the idea of ETI...I'm a kook.
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V'ger is coming!
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Teh PW
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Could be the ASS-1... now whether it's a Inspection Force ship or meltrandi gunboat is up in the air...
do they have pics that look like a really small blur/dot or something what-ever shaped. what does it matter to us? looking into the sky, no matter how far, is always looking at what happened before. Hubble saw something that occured *In deep Cosmos voice* Millions and Millions of years ago... or last year before the writer's strike.
That's why i still like the anime 'Gunbuster'. even it was super over the top, the fact that realistic time was always a factor in the story made it cool and real. *smirk* ok, tossing jupiter around is belivable. honest.
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It's the Colonial Rag Tag fleet. They'll land in New Jersey and assume that the Thirteenth Tribe was destroyed, but it only seems that way because they're in New Jersey.
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Daniel Butler
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A friend of mine skimmed it quickly. Here's what it sounds like:
they saw a flash that slowly brightened and dimmed over about 100 days. they were able to measure it using multiple telescopes around the world (Hubble, Mauna Kea and Subaru). There were no stars or galaxies near it at the time or in any of the older images of that patch of space. It probably wasn't in our galaxy though a faint white dwarf suddenly exploding near the upper egde of the galaxy (Which does happen) could be the source. There is something nearby that could be a very faint galaxy. Neither of these sources are terribly probable -just barely possible. It wasn't a gravitational microlense, where something heavy magnifies a star behind it, because the light curve is wrong. Its not closer than 130 light-years because if it was it would have moved against the background, but its not further than 11 billion light-years because it doesn't show certain signatures in the light that such extremely distant objects have. They looked in the records and there isn't anything that looks or acts like it in there so this is brand new.
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Gamma Ray burst? I read an odd article on that phenomenon a few years back- no one knows where they come from or why, but they could be extinction level events.
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Daniel Butler
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This wasn't in gamma, though. They said Chandra was blinded temporarily so I'd imagine it was X-rays but I'm not re-reading the article to see cuz I'm lazy.
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