Comments on: Cosmic Rays: By-Product of Distant Alien Warfare?

By: openmind

openmind — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:23:39 +0000

all of you, please read this article
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36987016/The-Coming-Celestial-Convergence

it might help

By: jimoutofthebox

jimoutofthebox — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:29:35 +0000

Why do the high energy cosmic rays have to come from weapons. Could we be detecting energy from some type of advanced rocket?

By: Reality

Reality — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:26:29 +0000

Or maybe we have once again overestimated what we know of the universe around us.
Most models of what causes a gamma ray burst were developed prior to understanding that gamma ray bursts occur in each and every thunderstorm on this planet.
Science has always been slow to admit when wrong.

But let’s not let that stop us from acting as if theory is fact.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:25:09 +0000

One drawback of weaponizing GRB’s though, is the fact that there are always two beams going in opposite directions. Aiming down line-of-sight might be tricky (imagine using artillery in warfare if the laws of physics dictated that you had to always fire a second shell backwards, every time).

I suppose it might be good for two front wars….

By: amphiox

amphiox — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:21:22 +0000

I am presuming that it would take less energy to manipulate a natural GRB into “firing” at a time and direction of one’s choosing than it would take to generate and focus that level of energy from “scratch”.

But then we shouldn’t necessarily assume that such energy outlays would only have application as weapons and nothing else. One could conceive of a KIII using GRB’s as part of an intergalactic SETI program to search for other KIII’s in distant galaxies, or a KIV using them as internal communication beacons….

By: Josh K

Josh K — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:30:13 +0000

“I’m a big fan of TMQ’s views on football, science, politics and cheerleaders, but I think he’s talking thru his… err… very wrong on this subject. ”

If you’re a big fan of TMQ, perhaps you’ve noticed that his column is rife with satire and humor? The chances that these bursts really are muzzle flashes from distant alien doomsday weapons is far greater than the chances that TMQ is being serious.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:57:59 +0000

“Wouldn’t it be wonderfully ironic if ”

-An ESPN correspondent came up with the correct answer before the egg-heads even considered it !?!

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:51:53 +0000

One can only speculate upon the capabilities of a Kardashev Type III or IV civilization.

However doesn’t it seem improbable that the number of GRB’s detected would be associated with a conflict? Especially considering that the GRB’s are directional and more-or-less all-sky events? How many are we not detecting because they aren’t pointed at us?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:38:02 +0000

Reminds me of the “Dawn War” from Alastair Reynolds’s Revelation Space trilogy.

By: Buck Bokai

Buck Bokai — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:18:37 +0000

Fantastic article, but it would not be wonderfully ironic if the Vela satellites made first contact. If they’re contacting the gamma ray weapon holders, that’ll be extermination time for homo sapiens. Wonderfully brutal.