Talk:2886: Fast Radio Bursts

2024-01-29T21:00:56Z

CaTastrophy427: Semi-facetiously asking for a citation, more asking for someone to add something I don't know how to add.

(2) microwave ovens in the observation break room: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.02165v1.pdf
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Clearly, one of the LIGO observations was a real gravitational wave while the other was just the microwave door slamming ;) [[User:Solomon|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon|talk]]) 07:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I like that the comic is both a story in four pictures and a 2x2 grid of combinations. --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.99.220|172.71.99.220]] 07:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

the grad student inside joke - emily petroff did not get her phd until november 2015, the paper was published in april 2015, so the "grad student" figured it out. check out her graph: https://imgur.com/NBJOkyB (via: https://www.iflscience.com/astronomical-quest-leads-ovens-27839 )

The microwaving grapes/plasma phenomenon was previously referenced in the What If post on microwaving frozen food. The black hole/bagel may well be a reference to the film Everything Everywhere All At Once, where a character put “everything” (in the multiverse) on a bagel and created a devouring vortex. —-

I liked Michael Lynch's comment on the XKCD Facebook page - "We tried removing the microwave however when we did that, no researchers were willing to spend enough time at the observatory to take any observations." - how true. {{unsigned ip|172.71.142.60|19:14, 29 January 2024}}

We traced the FRB. It's coming from inside the observatory! [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.125|172.69.34.125]] 20:54, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm wondering if we need a citation for the statement "Energetic stellar-sized microwave ovens; this is unlikely since microwaves typically are not stellar-sized and all known microwave ovens originate on Earth rather than in space."... Probably just one of those "citation needed" (with link to 285) superscript thing that I don't know how to add. But also, what proof do we have that there are no stellar-sized microwave ovens, either human-made or otherwise? And what are the odds that the grad student was sent to a break room that contains one of those? [[User:CaTastrophy427|CaTastrophy427]] ([[User talk:CaTastrophy427|talk]]) 21:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:2886: Fast Radio Bursts