We Are Not Alone???

Not that I ever believed somehow that we were alone, but up until now nothing has been conclusively proven.  Well all that being said, it turns out that we might just be one step closer to finding out the definitive answer to this very important question.  You see, five days ago [again] the CHIME telescope array in Canada, although not yet fully operational, has detected several repeating radio blasts from deep space known as "fast-radio bursts" (FRBs).

Image Source and additonal story details here: at www.sciencemag.org

Now there are natural phenomena that could account for these bursts such as a star going supernova or information escaping the impending grasp of a black hole.  So scientists will need to rule these sorts of things out, while keeping an ear out for similar sound issuing from the same relative origin.  As an engineer, I would have to add that internal system anomalies will likely have to be ruled out as well, especially given the fact that this system has not yet been fully brought on-line.  But hey, it's still cool to think these FRBs might actually be issuing from some other form of intelligent life in the universe, right? Funny, this discovery seems to have refocused attention on how we, humans, would make long distance space journeys given our current technology.  To my way of thinking, however, they will find us first and then we will gain the technology we need to begin our own manned exploration of deep space.

Have a great day, and don't forget to Look UP!  Looking up always seems to remind me that we are just a small part of a greater and universal, all-encompassing whole.  If we're all connected somehow, then we can never truly 'be' alone, right? =))))))

~M

1/17/2019  Some food for thought ... Apparently the next generation of CERN-type super-collider is already is the works.  CERN has a 21 mile radius, whereby many of the yet to be discovered subatomic particles have heretofore alluded detection.  The next generation CERN would have a whopping 62 mile radius, thereby opening the doorway to whole new world of subatomic particles discovery.  Why is this relevant to the above discussion? Because if we were to ever have a chance of of reaching our nearest neighboring galaxy--the Andromeda galaxy-- potentially capable of being home to other intelligent life in the universe, we would likely need a sub-atomic particle fuel source.  Apparently, subatomic particle 'fuel' the size of a basketball would be sufficient to propel our ships all the way to Proxima Centauri (a how 10 year journey, given a sub-atomic particle fuel source), the large star at the center of the Alpha Centauri System.

1/22/2019 The Pentagon has working with calculations for the "Drake Equation"???