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Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?

Dryson

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Bizarre flashes of cosmic light may actually be generated by advanced alien civilizations, as a way to accelerate interstellar spacecraft to tremendous speeds, a new study suggests.

Astronomers have catalogued just 20 or so of these brief, superbright flashes, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first one was detected in 2007. FRBs seem to be coming from galaxies billions of light-years away, but what's causing them remains a mystery.

http://www.space.com/35996-fast-radio-bursts-powering-alien-spacecraft.html

What if the FRB's are part of the process of a how a Micro Black Hole forms but does not form but instead creates an FRB that be attributed too Hawking Radiation?
 
We have light craft here, and use a stationary laser to accelerate these things, it works but if you fire anything that can be seen on a cosmic scale at a spaceship you probably will vaporize it thorougly, either by the shockwave itself, the heat or the 10 bazillion G's it produces.. :D
 
Crazy hypotheses like this one drive me crazy.

On one hand, bringing aliens to explain light flashes from billions of light years away seems an unnecessary extraordinary explanation for what probably has a very simple one. On the other hand if there are aliens in the universe that are either close to us, or are doing anything that would be detectable at large distances, some of the things that we've already observed may have come from them. The Wow! signal is my favourite, but these flashes sound way too tempting as well. Aliens in themselves shouldn't be extraordinary, so some distant phenomena sooner or later* would involve them. Perhaps even retroactively long time after they have been recorded.

It's frustrating. I cannot even tell on what magnitude of unlikely this is without a background in that scale of engineering and propulsion, and only the fabled aliens would have that one. So to tell if this is possible-ish or batshit crazy, we have to make a super-luminal phone call to these light flashes to ask them if it's actually feasible to build that kind of thing.

* Later. Centuries later.
 
Considering the reality that the Earth is among the Milky Way which is among hundreds of billions of galaxies where countless solar systems exist alien life theories really aren't that crazy.
 
Space is rather large, eh extremely large, I mean LARGE LARGE, possibly GIGANTIC LARGE LARGE ON AN EPIC SCALE! and then some!
 
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The Wow! signal is my favourite "almost event" too because I truly believe that it was an actual signal that got cut off. It was never reproduced, never happened again, a true one off. I really do think it was something.
 
I thought it might be interesting to get the take of one on the people behind the discovery of "LGM-1." After a sec of Googling:

We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission. It is an interesting problem – if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe[,] how does one announce the results responsibly? Who does one tell first?​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919+21
 
CorporalCaptain said:
It is an interesting problem – if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe[,] how does one announce the results responsibly? Who does one tell first?
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You announce it responsibly by announcing what you know and not what you think.

Who does one tell? I suppose it depends on the reaction you want.
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STEP 1: Make an observation.
STEP 2: Form a hypothesis to explain your obsevation.
STEP 3: Test y-

Oh fuck.
 
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