xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts
xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts
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Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.
WOW!
For those who don’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
After that, he says that energetic stellar-sized microwaves could also be the cause, though this is unlikely since microwaves typically are not stellar-sized and they do not float in space [citation needed].
I don't know why but that [citation needed] caught me so off guard and made me laugh far too much
I was reading one of his the other day and he got me with the same thing. It was:
Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls ^[citation ^needed]
A fifth panel could make it a “momma so fat” joke and say she’s in the break room.
okay but do fat mamas emit radio signals?
Maybe if you spun them fast enough?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02165
Great synapsis