China claims it may have detected signs of an alien civilization.

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Amicchan@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨china@lemmygrad.ml⁩

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/china-says-it-may-have-detected-signals-from-alien-civilizations

The original article posted by Science and Technology Daily got removed, so it might have just been full of junk; I'm uncertain what that article actually was though.

People's Daily states an entirely different claim near a similar time (09:19, June 15, 2022 compared to June 14, 2022 at 10:25 PM CDT (watch out for timezone differences)): China’s FAST telescope discovers world’s first persistently active repeating fast radio burst.^[Here is the link to the source paper.]

Regardless, the Reddit hivemind is spouting brainrot about China.

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cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
The clickbait western media has an incentive to sensationalise everything into the absurd. I'm sure this is an impressive scientific achievement and an important discovery, but it does not sound to me like there is any reason to conclude that it is "signs of aliens", rather perhaps a new, exotic type of pulsar or something.

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- AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Also, paper or GTFO. I want to see the primary source before I trust a word of your "scientific journalism".
  
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felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
The referred article on "Science and Technology Daily" did not get removed, instead, Bloomberg actually redirects to "http://www.stdaily.com/index/error/error.shtml". It's perhaps intended to make an user think like China deleted it

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- AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Did they seriously not expect someone to open up Inspect Element and look at the headers?
  
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  - Arsen6331@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    You don't even need to do that, most browsers will show you the URL of the link you're hovering over in the bottom left.
    
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- FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  LMAO you're right! I just checked myself. Typical capitalist media doing its thing.
  
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- Amicchan@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Where is the article then? I tried searching www.stdaily.com but I couldn't find it.
  
  Also, that's scummy of western media.
  
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  - AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    It may well not exist. Wouldn't be the first time the West straight up made up what China allegedly "said but then quickly censored." Like, I can't think of an obvious reason to delete an article like this.
    
    Maybe if it's suspected to cause civil unrest, and they want to avoid that? Existence of extraterrestrial life is big news, and possibly disturbing and scary news to many. But in that case, why release the article in the first place? In English no less, would likely have involved a dedicated English language writer or translator, which would be a pretty conscious action on the part of the Chinese speaking press.
    
    Also, wouldn't there be a proper scientific paper of the findings and not just an article if they did intend to publish it? I mean, maybe there is, and it's in Chinese, but mainstream layman's news coverage quoting a different mainstream layman's publication is definitely a red flag for the actual research not exiting.
    
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PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Aren't those just pulsars or something? Also, it's 3,3 billion LY from us, and 3,3 billion years old.

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