No, it's not April Fool's Day, although that was fun. Forsooth 'tis Good News for Pastafarians: CNET Magazine, as brought to us by Yahoo! this morning (not even 9 am Eastern Standard Time) sez: "Strange signals picked up by the radio telescope pointed towards the stars in Parkes, Australia have a rather more mundane origin." Dive below the orange cloud of microwave radiation for the details.
Parkes Observatory has been desperately seeking the origins of an odd signal known as a "peryton".
These signals are very similar to the dispersion of an astrophysical pulse through tenuous cold plasma -- what is known as a "fast radio burst." These FRBs are unexplained to this day... but the origin of the peryton has now been revealed.
It's all on the table now, folks. "Perytons are visible over a wide field-of-view, indicating that they are in the near field (close to us)" scientists say, while it was previously thought that FRBs "emanate from a single source".
Now we know: Astrophysical FSM
pulses through
tentacles of cold pasta!
...tests point clearly to the magnetron itself as the source of the perytons since these are not detected unless the door is opened...
Now those scientists think this is a good reason to
update their kitchen equipment. I say
let them eat cake and
Wait For the Beep! Ain't technology awesome & Wonderful?