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Planet Earth Emits Cosmic Scream
Author: Daniel Taylor7 Jul
Though our planet has long been known to emit a mysterious low hum that scientists have postulated might be generated by oceans or winds or other natural phenomena, new research shows that it also emits a powerful array of radiation-spawned, high-pitched chirps and whistles, that shoot out like a beam from the earth’s magnetic field deep into space. This means that anyone out there listening would be able to hear it and pinpoint earth’s location, and we can do the same:
The Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), as it is called, is beamed out in a narrow plane, as if someone had put a mask over a torch and left a slit for the radiation to escape.
This flat beam could be detected by aliens who’ve figured this process out, the researchers say. The knowledge could also be used by Earth’s astronomers to detect planets around other stars, if they can build a new radio telescope big enough for the search. They could also learn more about Jupiter and Saturn by studying AKR, which should emit from the auroral activity on those worlds, too.
Thankfully, our ionosphere blocks the sounds from reaching earth:
The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That’s good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.
Hear them for yourself, here. Someone needs to put that shit into some IDM. Give the aliens something to grind on when they finally get here, fuckers.
PRO TIP OF THE DAY: Your Life is Probably Meaningless, But Maybe That’s OK
Author: Daniel Taylor26 Jun
At this moment, just a couple thousand light years from the edge of our neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, itself about 210,000 light years from earth, a star, 1E0102.2-7219 to be exact, goes supernova, dissipating into a cloud of soft blue. As you consider the distances involved in this rather pedestrian astronomical event, and you consider the timelines inferred - that even if man were to one day find a way to travel at the speed of light, it would take over 200,000 years to get to the epicenter of this supernova, which has already been in the process of exploding for over 2,000 years itself - realize that the span of one human life is an incalculably insignificant moment occurring in an infinitesimally tiny corner of an immense and possibly unending universe, which itself may be just one of an infinite number of universes existing concurrently in a cornerless, borderless ocean of time of space. One day our sun will explode and all trace of any physical human life on the planet earth will be incinerated. Even the natural memory of time will one day be washed clean by a black hole, or by the slow crawl of universal expansion, leaving no trace, no reminder that anything had ever happened, or that there was ever anything at all, period. Maybe its possible that this abject emptiness, this absence of any “thing,” is GOD, but more likely it is just nothing. Stephen Hawking proposed that eventually universal expansion will revert to universal contraction, and that as space sucked back in on itself, time would begin to replay exactly backwards, and that our lives would be lived exactly as they were, only in reverse, born in death and dying in birth, only to be reborn the next time around. So as you go about your life today, perhaps you’d be best served to live your life the way you’d want to live it, over and over again forever. Viktor Frankl once wrote, “Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time,” and though he was much more of a spiritual optimist than I, the point is this: life might be all you get so don’t fuck it up. Anyways, I’m gonna get some lunch.
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