c/xkcd · by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 2y

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.

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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 2y (1 reply)

WOW!

magic_lobster_party@kbin.social · 34 pts · 2y

For those who don’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y (7 replies)

https://explainxkcd.com/2886

loobkoob@kbin.social · 42 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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

cynar@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I'm fairly sure microwaves float in space. I don't think there are completely different laws of physics, just for microwaves. A microwave in a bistro however...

0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Microwaves travel through space at the speed of light because they are photons

cynar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

If you want to get pedantic, as far as photons are concerned, photons don't exist. At C time dilation hits infinity, while length contraction approaches zero. Therefore photons travel zero distance and experience zero time. Therefore, from a photon's perspective, they don't exist!

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Bistromath was such a beautifully strange concept for a ship. I freaking love SEP fields the most from that book.

cynar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

The combination of the infinite improbability drive leaking, and the SEP (somebody else's problem) field is amazing. It provides an in-universe explanation for the various weird and unlikely things that happen.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

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]

Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A fifth panel could make it a “momma so fat” joke and say she’s in the break room.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

okay but do fat mamas emit radio signals?

DredUnicorn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Maybe if you spun them fast enough?

Chestnut@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02165

Great synapsis