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    NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
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    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Hey, we're finally 'hearing' the Big Bang...
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Scientists always seemed excited and confused when confronted with new sounds. After all, the regular-interval pulses emanating from the first discovered pulsar (later understood as a rapidly spinning collapsed star) were such a shock they were named LGMs for "Little Green Men."


    The sound discovered by this team is static from the early universe. Not that surprising that they don't immediately understand the source. Given my experience with Comcast and static, I wouldn't be surprised if they were to blame.

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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    I would invest in some Nike running shoes and bunk beds right about now.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Damn it, guys - don't you watch the movies? Now you have listened in on their private conversation, they are gonna be pissed and send they ray guns and ion blaster to blow us to smithereens. And I had big plans for this year -- a nice trip to the beach, and was going to spend time fixing the upstairs bathroom. Now, all lost. Thanks a lot.
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    Image of Oh yeah, I still have a clock and a pencil! Oh yeah, I still have a clock and a pencil!
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Haha, next we send out the '64 Impala class starship
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/10/09

    @Kevin: We did. Kirk drove it off a cliff.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/10/09

    @JM2¢_GitEmSteveDave: Blaspheme! That was a 'Vette Stingray!
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    Image of Matt Matt
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    It isn't a sound. "Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas"


    Indeed, the the original article talks about "radio noise" and a "signal" and makes no mention of it being a sound.


    Please use the correct terminology, sound cannot be transmitted through the near vacuum of outer space.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/10/09

    @Matt: Astronomers are notorious for stretching the definition of what constitutes "sound" when discussing waves in space.
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Nothing is more more excited than Jason Chen at the Las Vegas' Adult Entertainment Expo.... I still remember last years posts...Oh god.


    Seriously, what the hell could this be? Maybe this is the radio background hiss equivalent to a pressure wave that was a result of the creation of our bubble universe, and it just keeps reverbreating throughout?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    That would explain this strange schematic I just received in my email. Anyone care to help me align the markers?
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    01/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You need the primer?
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    Image of devonbowers devonbowers
    01/10/09

    @PalmPre_GitEmSteveDave: don't worry about it too much. I think it's just intergalactic gangsters with the bass turned up way too loud. We need to send Clint Eastwood out there to quiet things down...
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    01/10/09

    @devonbowers: And here I was thinkin we needed to crack out the good ole Fifth Element to deal with whatever was boomin towards us...


    Someone call Bruce

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    01/10/09

    @Amplified Hustler: Just hope that the Fifth Element doesn't look like the Zune guy, or we're screwed.
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    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Should...

    have sent...

    a poet.
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    Image of kevanio kevanio
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    :| the scientologists were right.


    All hail Tom Cruise. Take my money!

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/10/09

    @kevanio: Shhh... Xenu can hear you.
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    Image of Dexter Waxler Dexter Waxler
    01/10/09

    In reply to NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
    Would putting my computer in 500 gallons of liquid helium allow me to run Crysis faster?
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    01/10/09

    @Dexter Waxler: Don't forget that liquid helium has no viscosity.
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    01/10/09

    @PalmPre_GitEmSteveDave: Hah - when I was in college, one of my physics professors was the guy who won a Nobel prize for discovering that.
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    01/10/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Davidovich Landau?
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