[extropy-chat] Enigmatic object baffles supernova team

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Tue Jun 20 02:43:46 UTC 2006


What a strange article.  It variously says the object could be 5.5  
billion light years away, 12 billion light years away or in our own  
galaxy.  In short it doesn't seem we know much other than the raw  
data.   Very odd.

- samantha

On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:04 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:

> Here is something interesting:
>
> http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9360-enigmatic-object-
> baffles-supernova-team.html
>
>
> An extremely energetic object of unknown location and origin with
> strange/unusual properties that do no fit with any previously
> cataloged space object or energetic event.  This weird object looks
> like it might make some good fodder for megascale engineering
> speculation based on the set of things that make it unusual.
>
>
> J. Andrew Rogers
>
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