Mysterious "roar" from outer space
Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center says he and his colleagues have discovered a mysterious "booming noise" coming from space that's six times more powerful than all other space radio sources combined.
For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected"We really don't know what it is,"said team member Michael Seiffert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
And not only has it presented astronomers with a new puzzle, it is obscuring the sought-for signal from the earliest stars.
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That was Galactus, after plugging in an electric bath duck.
Sucker.
Didn't scientists recently find a mysterious flash in space that they similarly had no explanation for?
http://www.spacecoalition.com/blog/entry.cfm?entry_id=B1FD0518-DBA1-F60D-AA51687D60733222
This is just like the underwater bloop!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
Nyarlothep sneezed with all 1000 of his faces.
Interesting note: The first google hit for Nyarlothep is a new-age name-meaning site.
Notable sections include:
"Your first name of Nyarlothep has given you the vision and foresight to be able to organize others and to hold positions of responsibilities with poise and self-confidence."
This had me laughing my ass off. I'd find his horoscope, but I don't think there is a star sign for someone born before the universe. Null maybe?
Alan Kogut: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Colleagues: That's no moon...
Michael Seiffert: I have a bad feeling about this...
Alternative ending:
Mysterious aliens trying to communicate with humpbacked whales.... yeah right.
must be some super-being roaring at the fact that he can't find his missing sugar molecule for his galactic coffee.
KAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHN!
I love science!
Might not the roar in fact be from the earliest stars, seeing the way things all turned out?
It's probably Cthulu.
Damn kids. They're going to go deaf if they don't turn down their flying saucer stereos.
Paging Dr. Arroway. Paging Dr. Arroway. Dr. Arroway to the Very Large Array, please....
Jesus is coming.
And he's pissed.
It's the 20's
"Beware, I live!"
Cant believe it took us 16 comments before a Sinistar reference.
Very cool... so first comes the light, then the roar/boom. Just how long does it take shock waves to hit?
Cthulu calling collect, Will you accept the charges?
Maybe the aliens are Monster Truck fans.
Am I a lion?
I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well though, I have a mighty roar.
Someone somewhere is blaming their dog. Or space-alien dog equivalent.
"Khaaaaaaaan!"
Sorry... had to.
Sounds like a new funding request.
Am I missing the sound clip? Is this another one of those sound-related news articles that don't include the sound?
Cthulhu? Nyarlathotep? This doesn't seem like their MO. No, this is humanity getting it's first mind-searing glimpse of mighty Azathoth, the mindless nuclear chaos writhing at the heart of the universe.
And the explosion debris will hit the earth in 2012. Thus ending all life on the planet.
SOYLENT GREEN IS SPACE EXPLOSIONS!!!
God saw the buses.
Cthulhu? No, scarier than that. John Bonham is coming.
GHEDE
Try Googling "Nyarlathotep"..
Crisis averted :)
#15 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7:
lol
like it hit the glass bubble that the "distant" stars and galaxies are painted on and is bouncing back.
FTA "Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe."
Sounds like the real discovery is radio waves that travel the speed of light! That would really be something!
In space, no one can hear you roar.
Are you joking Giovanni?
All electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light, and that's what radio waves are - just a different part of the same spectrum as visible light.
#8 FTW!
From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend.
Giovanni
"In 1891, French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot measured the speed of radio waves on a Lecher line by this method.[6][7] He used 13 different frequencies between 10 and 30 MHz and obtained an average value of 297,600 km/sec, which is within 1% of the current value for the speed of light.[8] This was the first measurement of the speed of radio waves[8] and an important confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell's theory that light was an electromagnetic wave like radio waves."
"In the GSM system, the synchronization of the mobile phones is achieved by sending timing advance commands from the base station which instructs the mobile phone to transmit earlier and by how much. This compensates for propagation delay as the speed of radio waves is the same as light (finite)."
#11 - He's under the ocean. More likely to be Azathoth.
#37 + this
"One rule is always obeyed regardless of the circumstances: EM radiation in a vacuum always travels at the speed of light, relative to the observer, regardless of the observer's velocity. (This observation led to Albert Einstein's development of the theory of special relativity.)"
#16 FTW -- that yell used to scare the crap outta me.
The sound of the universe collapsing, far in the future, generates so much energy that the radio waves travel faster than the speed of light, and thus travel back in time and have just reached us-- we are hearing the sound of our eventual doom.
wow. . . dude, I am like, so high right now.
Star Farts
Two possible explanations:
It's either Blackbolt of the Inhumans, or this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QX0ekXWPjI
That's what we get for broadcasting FOX NEWS to the universe.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"It's coming from inside the solar system, get out now!"
AHHH! I've been Rhormanized!
"Might just be some alien message and we're joking away at it..."
...said the three-headed 5-legged . On something that could resemble a viewscreen if we were able to distinguish individual objects at the current location of an ever-changing image was being show.
"Do you want some more?" asked . "Yes, of course."
poured some liquid lysergic acid amide into a receptacle under bodily contortions that would seem more than unnatural to humans, and offered the receptacle to . In an equally unnerving body contortion, appropriated the food.
"The cognet seems to be sure to think that there is a pattern in this data, but I can not see anything evident. I feel really strange; did you perhaps add Kaliumchloride to the LLA?"
"Why yes, a little. More?"
"No, I've seen enough."
"I meant the LLA."
"Let's first turn off the equipment."
moved one of his appendages through the air in a movement that could have, or could not have been any different from the way he has been twisting his body all along.
The image of Alfred Hofmann disappeared.
#43:
kudos on the Blackbolt reference. It must be grand to be able to cause that much destruction by merely speaking a whisper :)
/nerd
The Echthroi are beginning the Un-Naming... Quick, know the names of every star!
Couldn't it just be background interference from something much nearer?
Cthulhu. Definitely Cthulhu. I mean it's a roar for starters, and that's the kind of noise indescribable creatures make when they awaken from an aeons-long slumber. Also the radio waves are ancient in origin so the source is an Ancient One. Stands to reason...
Universe is flat, we are near the edge of the universe, as we drift towards the approaching fall.
There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which way the river's flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? / Yes, the danger must be growing / 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing / And they're certainly not showing / Any signs that they are slowing!
Wonka
@SC_WOLF: JESUS CHRIST, get in the car! IT'S FIVE SPACE LIONS!
@SINISTAR: You hunger... yes, yes... I know. Right, "beware," I got it. Damn, you're a needy bitch, Sinistar.
Galactus just finished eating Flatula IV, the bean planet.
I'm so with akbar56 in #17.
I can't believe the scientists haven't figured out it means Sinistar is coming.
Uncultured heathens.....
-abs probably played that game wayyyy too much as a youth, though he played Donkey Kong Jr. a lot more, a serious LOT more
This is just like the underwater bloop!
Why are we even talking about this? It's clearly a viral for the new Transformers movie.
I think this article has a pretty good theory on this mysterious "roar" from deep space. http://www.lokitimes.com/2009/01/08/a-real-life-star-wars-from-afar/
Why is it described as "loud?" Shouldn't it be "bright?"
They say a mysterious roar, maybe Nibiru has something to do with it, maybe it hit or co1lided with another orbiting planet, or had broken through the astriod belt, sending astriods in our inner solar system. That can be another theory..
mmmm..