I couldn't work this out from the article, might try digging around for it -<p>How did they know to point the telescope in the right direction?<p>If these bursts last for a significant amount of time do they have an alert system set up monitoring for the event and then kick the telescope into gear? They were able to get other telescopes to observe the area of the burst, but it seems like they were too late, as they didn't even observe an after glow from the burst. This suggests the bursts do not last for any reasonably long amount of time.<p>Maybe they were just lucky? Normally the telescope's use is highly contested for so it would be quite serendipitous if they happened to observe the burst by chance.
All done by Australian scientists while the government slashes their funding left and right. We're going to be left with wheat, sheep and a bunch of holes in the ground once the mining is finished.
Ok. I'll say it. I know very little of physics and maths. What features need to be observed to rule out the possibility of intelligent design in terms of the pulse?