An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery
An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 24, 201927m 28s
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Show Notes
In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescope—a dish in Australia that had been tracking pulsars, the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of once massive stars. His professor, astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer, had asked him to search for a recently discovered type of ultra-rapid pulsar dubbed RRAT.
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