fast radio bursts – Uncommon Descent

So what’s been making the fast radio bursts?

Not aliens. We are told that they are made by magnetars, a type of neutron star.

Big Bang Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Missing matter of the universe FOUND? Rob Sheldon says, hold on a minute…

Sheldon:Well, like most astronomy press releases in the past decade, it is 3/4 hype, and 1/4 data, and it has nothing to do with dark matter. Since many people never read beyond the headline, the title is written to be as provocative as possible without outright lying.

Extraterrestrial life Intelligent Design

Harvard astronomer is back: Radio bursts could be aliens

The reader who sent this tip notes, “Consider me skeptical but it’s interesting that design inferences are fine so long as it’s just aliens…” Actually, reader, some science personalities will believe darn near anything about anything as long as it IS aliens.

Intelligent Design

No, those fast radio bursts are not aliens

For one thing, as Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)’s Seth Shostak points out, the bursts are from widely varying locations, which is unlikely unless the aliens inhabited the whole universe.

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