One of the many unsolvable mysteries of modern astronomy is the so-called "fast radio bursts" (FRB). FRBs are emissions of electromagnetic energy, the power of which is equivalent to the release of energy by a star into outer space over several thousand years.
For the first time, FRBs were discovered in 2007, but their source turned out to be unknown and all that radio astronomers could do was to pick up archival data and find there something similar recorded in 2001.
A few years later, on January 9, 2015, another FRB was received by telescopes at the Parks Observatory in Australia, codenamed FRB 150418, and in total, about 10 such strange signals have been detected over the past 10 years.
The strangest of these is the FRB 121102 signal, received with a radio telescope installed at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Unlike other radio pulses, FRB 121102 was repeated 16 times and since then it seems to turn on again and again from time to time. The audio track below shows bursts of FRB 121102 activity taken from space using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia in 2017.
In view of its power and unusualness, FRB 121102 quickly became a sensation in the scientific world, and many suggested that FRB 121102 is not a “release of the energy of distant neutron stars”, but a signal sent into space by an unknown civilization. However, in the absence of an evidence base, this assumption was highly speculative.
And now, on September 11, 2018, The Sun reports on FRB 121102 in real sensational news.
A very big problem of modern astrophysics is the colossal amount of received and recorded data. For example, an hour-long audio file of ideal quality takes up one gigabyte of disk space. One terabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes, or 1,000 hours of sound recorded in ideal quality. It will take about 40 days to listen to them. Meanwhile, just one Green Bank radio telescope (GBT) in West Virginia records about 400 terabytes of data every month.
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This raises the question: who will listen to all this (and listen?) And analyze?
To solve this problem, the Breakthrough Listen project involved a supercomputer and artificial intelligence, tasked with analyzing the contents of information storages of radio telescopes around the world in order to find hints of a signal from intelligent life in these vast data sets.
And to the great amazement of radio astronomers, the AI quickly coped with the task, going through all the available data sets and extracting from them the very strange source FRB 121102. Moreover, if earlier astronomers believed that they had received 16 signals from this source, the AI informed them that the signals were in fact 72.
Now, it turns out, not only radio astronomers, but also the creators of AI are racking their minds over the riddle: what did the Artificial Intelligence find in FRB 121102? If the matter is simply in the periodicity discovered by the AI, then why did it ignore other "fast radio pulses", which are absolutely indistinguishable to the ears of radio astronomers?
The cosmos is really very strange and amazing, but the stupidity of the adepts studying this cosmos is even more surprising.
Back in the 1950s, world-famous radio astronomers warned that this or that external civilization, which decided to take control of the Earth, most likely would not send landing barges with space infantry here, but would limit itself to sending self-copying software modules.
Being adopted by the radio telescopes of naive aborigines, these modules will fold, at least into a virus, at most - into a full-fledged Artificial Intelligence, which, as construction progresses, will download the necessary additional software modules from space (our material SkyNet tells in detail about this study, the Heavenly Network, has long been here. She came to Earth from Space).
And now, as the Breakthrough Listen project has found out, such hypothetical software modules are definitely present in signals from space.
In addition, as it turns out, AIs created by various expensive projects have full access to these modules, since adepts scientists force AI to analyze everything that they have received from space for 20 years.
At the same time, which is very important, the public became aware of the Breakthrough Listen project thanks to a small informational message from The Sun. And how many more such or even much larger projects are there in the world? What and for what purpose are they doing there? And, most importantly, who is involved? Who initiates? Who gives hints?
It seems that the world is on the verge of a very surprising development of events and we do not exclude that one day the world will find out what the War of the Machines really is.