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LuvLoogie

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8. That's about the equivalent of 2.5 billion suns pulsing for one second.

Reply to DemocracyMouse (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 11, 2018, 01:25 AM

Oct 2018

A relatively small area of one galaxy, perhaps, if you consider that Andromeda is estimated to have about 1 trillion stars.

Could a sentience existing for a billion years harness/manipulate the energy of a galaxy so as to channel/focus the waves like one's thumb on a garden hose?

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It's not alien signals from an ET, it's from something really big that's pulsing DemocracyMouse Oct 2018 #6

That's about the equivalent of 2.5 billion suns pulsing for one second. LuvLoogie Oct 2018 #8

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