Reply to post: Re: Scientists 5: Politicians 2 - a clear victory!

America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?

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Re: Scientists 5: Politicians 2 - a clear victory!

It depends on what you mean by 'right next to us', but spacetime would be severely non-isotropic, and in particular things like the CMB would not be anywhere near isotropic: there would be a fucking enormous dipole moment. There isn't.

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