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- DeskFlyer, on 11/11/2007, -1/+354This is old news; happened 3 billion years ago.
- SaintDogbert, on 10/10/2007, -8/+177The message has been deciphered to read, "MAKE YOUR PENIS 3 INCHES LONGER!"
- jawdog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+100BREAKING! Scientists have deciphered the radio message. It says.... "We're coming for you Tom Cruise!!!!"
- Waiting2awake, on 10/10/2007, -13/+98It was like a thousand souls suddenly cried out, and then, silence.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+72It's a ping from a galaxy far far away!
- goeatsmsht, on 10/10/2007, -3/+60If you're gonna quote Star Wars, make sure you get it right.
"..... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened." - silverchrysalis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+52"dammit grok, quit fiddling with the dial and just leave it on the country station until we get to alpha centauri!"
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37Another civilization bites the dust.
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+40Thanks for the light-year clarification.
- keeblerkhan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33Viscilli, please verify range to target. One ping only.
- ChayD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30No, light speed is too slow. Prepare for.......ludicrous speed!
- TheInfamousOne, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Interesting to note, that Tom Cruise is on the front page also for building a anti-alien bunker. That would teach us for doubting the Scientology nuts.
- Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Man. 3 billion year ping. Halo is gunna suck.
- inkyblue2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21no, i think it sounded more like one hundred thousand people saying "whop" at the same time.
- damndj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19We're lucky we're not all dying right now from a gamma ray burst.
- ripple123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Yeah getting a star wars quote wrong on digg is like putting a bleeding hand in a tank of rabid piranha. Starving rabid piranha.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19FTA: "There is no way any civilization that we could possibly think of could create a thing so incredibly powerful"
Uhh...I'm no scientist but could it be from a civilization we HAVEN'T thought of? - Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18A two inch long alien with a 3 inch penis. That'd be something.
- PabloIV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Message Reads:
"People of Earth this is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz..." - jono10, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Do they have any oil?
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I'm working on a subspace communicator.
- Haidoken, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16what will aliens say when they see our Enzyte commercials
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Something tells me when we have PROOF that life exists beyond our system, Sol.... It will be a major turning point in the history of mankind.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Earth's economy will suddenly revolve around making Enzyte for the rest of the cosmos. We all knew it was our race's final destiny.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14maybe aliens are only 2 inches long to start with
- Storm25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.
- RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13....don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
- roodammy44, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10The people on digg can't understand your douglas adams quotes
Brilliant book - carterbaldwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Let me be the first to welcome our deeply annoying alien DJs.
- EruditeGoof, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Maybe it's coming from a giant monolith.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+9Its actually pretty interesting to think that it could possibly be a transmission just reaching us now from some civilization that died out billions of years ago..
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They've gone plaid
- radix76v2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah, well, when you cannot create an intercosmic hyperspace highway without a boom here and there...
- Dalamarx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8guess he took his role in war of the worlds a little too seriously....
- mseneschal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's all Tom Cruise's fault.
- ElliottMarlow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Dugg down for unscientific statement: "There is no way any civilization that we could possibly think of could create a thing so incredibly powerful." I'm sure we could think of one, and I'm sure they could probably exist.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7To Serve Man
- Insomnya3AM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Don't panic.
- Qeveren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The amount of energy released was roughly equivalent to the entire output of our Sun for a month. Or, if you prefer, ~240 billion teratons TNT equivalent.
- saturnx8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6totally the deathstar blowing up another planet
- accessviolation, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Correct me if I'm wrong here Mr. Scientist, but radio waves are electromagnetic radiation, which means they travel at the speed of light like all EM radiation does.
- john2kx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Spain, if I'm not mistaken.
- Bleue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5To those who are saying that this could be intentional as we don't know the capabilities of alien civilizations(I would reply directly but ther are 4 or 5 of you): I don't think you grasp the scale of the burst. The amount of energy released by the burst is not just large, it is difficult to imagine. If we instantly transformed every atom in the solar system into pure energy, on an impossibly small time scale (the burst, 5 miliseconds long, was subject to the usual dissipation forces of EM space propagation and therefore is much longer as observed than it was on origin), we might get something much weaker than this signal, though at least on the same scale.
Even if we were to grant that this is possible for an alien civilization it must follow that this is certainly not practical. To create bursts like these would consume so much mass it would turn entire solar system into energy every time they make a burst.
Most scientists are not incredibly stupid, though there are exceptions, and they do not make statements like this lightly. So yes, it's possible this is artificial in nature but this is extremely unlikely, especially given the fact that the phenomenon fits current theories for certain cosmological phnomenea very nicely. - kubiakWU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I left my towel at home today.
Damn. - Bleue, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Except it's not a sign of intelligent life, no one thinks so. This is a natural phenomenon caused by some physical event. Heck even the article says so.
Does put a crimp on those that think the universe was created by god around 6000 years ago though... But we have been observing things billions of light years away (across the entire spectrum) for an awfully long time and that does not seem to discourage them. - radix76v2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+527 lightyears or so?
- plizard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5that's what the government would have you believe
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5or the wow signal was never really explained.
- bjs3171, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6yeah, you're right. currently we don't have the ability to take the next step, so let's not even bother.
- Thuktun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's new to *US*, sheesh.
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