# Telescope sees big bang echo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892 "2002-09-20T23:21:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892/1 "2002-09-20T23:21:39Z")

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From CNN:

[http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/20/cosmic.radiation.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/20/cosmic.radiation.reut/index.html)

“Astronomers using a radio telescope at the South Pole reported they had recorded a flicker of light from nearly 14 billion years ago that verifies most modern theory about the cosmos.”

Thoughts? Comments? Mundane blabbering?

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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892/2 "2002-09-20T23:34:23Z")

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Cool.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892/3 "2002-09-21T00:41:56Z")

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[Surfer]

Dude, what a blast, man. Whoa.

[/Surfer]

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892/4 "2002-09-21T01:32:46Z")

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Sweet.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telescope-sees-big-bang-echo/128892/5 "2002-09-21T04:03:47Z")

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> [@](#):
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> afterglow of the big bang

_snicker_