
Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST - howard941
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/488/3/2989/5528327?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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mavdi
Forgive my ignorance, can someone please explain what this potentially means?

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ianthiel
The three bursts 1ms apart don't appear to be natural (or at least, we don't
currently understand how they may occur naturally). The signal may be
extraterrestrial.

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ganzuul
If it is from a three-stage nuke it might be terrestrial. IIRC nukes have a
characteristic double-pulse 1ms apart.

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carbocation
> "Optical, radio, and X-ray follow-up has been made for most of the reported
> bursts, with no associated transients found."

What is a "transient" in this context?

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imglorp
I think they're looking for changes in the sky from those locations.
Supernovae for example leave visible traces--clouds, rings, shock fronts, etc
and emit all kinds of radio and x-rays. But FRB's not so much, it would seem,
so far anyway.

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kolbusa
I hope whoever is working on this read the Three Body Problem trilogy.

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mclightning
Can you elaborate why?

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llllllla
Spoilers for books 1 and 2, at least: [https://bigthink.com/scotty-
hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory...](https://bigthink.com/scotty-
hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-
heard-from-aliens-yet)

