First Radio Signal Detected from Beyond Solar System

2StepSteve · 13 Aug 2008 at 01:04

This was probably some local pirate radio station.

manic111 · 13 Aug 2008 at 01:23

Test Match Special!

Inquisitor · 13 Aug 2008 at 01:34

Berserker said:
No comprende. Feel free to explain.

That the article was only stating that the telescope had made its first discovery of an extra-solar radio source, not that it had made the first such discovery?

snail1 · 13 Aug 2008 at 11:14

IIRC the first pulsar was given the name LGM-1 for "Little Green Men" as the discover as thought that the rhythmic pulse was odd.

jas72 · 13 Aug 2008 at 11:36

ethan said:
All I can find is "man gives detailed acount of assault on herdsman" and that can't be it?

LMAO

Darkwave · 13 Aug 2008 at 13:14

PhillyDee said:
On the evening of 28th July 2008, at 21h14 local time the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system. A strong source was detected from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30 thousand light years away.

Inquisitor said:
That the article was only stating that the telescope had made its first discovery of an extra-solar radio source, not that it had made the first such discovery?

What they said, and Sagittarius A is a strong radio source anyway. This is non-news.

PhillyDee · 13 Aug 2008 at 13:17

Thats my point. It is completely non-news. They are basically says Look! The Telescope works!