Something Deep in Our Galaxy Is Pulsing Every 44 Minutes. No One Knows Why.
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Something Deep in Our Galaxy Is Pulsing Every 44 Minutes. No One Knows Why.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a64952278/something-deep-in-our-galaxy-is-pulsing-every-44-minutes-no-one-knows-why/
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I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about this! We are on the verge of some amazing world-changing discoveries (if NASA isn’t defunded)
And every 44 minutes, someone presses the button to silence it, for otherwise,
we’d be LOST!
In all seriousness, though, are there not other astrological bodies or entities that emit pulses?
I once read something I will paraphrase as “almost every unknown thing like that ends up being a pulsar”
A week ago it was every 45 minutes. What is it counting down to?
Is the pulsating in the room with us right now?
Where on this doll did the pulsating happen?
At a guess, it’s a Battlestar escaping the Cylons, as usual.
Once again we roll the “Pulsar or Aliens” dice to see what the hell this thing is.
This sounds like a good premise for a cool sci-fi book
Isnt this the one that pulses x-ray? That was a recent surpise on that one.
Ah, probably some poor bastards stuck in a 44-minute time loop.
That’s the number for death in Asian culture.
*sips tea*
Sure it’s nothing.
> This mysterious object could take many forms, including a pulsar, a white dwarf star in a binary with a low-mass star, or a magnetar.
The last would be cool. I saw Thomas Dobly use one in concert back in the day.
Quick! What does . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) . (44 minutes later) Mean in Morse code?
We know these headlines are always designed to trigger people’s desire for life out there but by now I think we can all agree we can just assume its always a pulsar until the day we see the headlines nasa/other provides 100% evidence of life not from earth we can ignore that thought. Well I will.
Pulsating every 44 minutes eh? Maybe we could call it a pulsinator or something like that.
Just a friendly reminder that we recently had whistle blowers testify to congress that the us gov has recovered crashed alien craft and their occupants. Reverse engeneeired some tech (transistors, lasers, fiber optics ect) and that its the biggest most sophisticated cover up in human history.
But sure, a new kind of pulsar sounds interesting i guess….
44 minutes is the exact length of an episode of Law & Order. The pulsing is probably just the universe going ‘dun-DUN’.
Reapers have woken up and become aware of humanity.
Probably a complex of multiple oscillations which only point exactly in our direction every 44 minutes.
Didn’t read the article but this headline sounds like some Rendezvous with Rama alien level stuff.
Something deep in the galaxy is having a pulsating post nut clarity.
Doug Adams rolling in his grave rn.
The answer was 44.
Okay fine, I’ll stop. Jeez 🙄
Can’t even pulse in peace anymore. Guess I’ll have to undulate instead
You know the first episode of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica was titled “33”. The human survivors had to make a hyperspace jump every 33 minutes because somehow the Cylons would catch up to them. And they had to do this over 200 times consecutively, not allowing the crew to sleep. Maybe there’s a Galactica out there that’s jumping every 44 minutes.