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Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They cover that in the first paragraph of the article. Pulsars need to be spinning fast because physics. This thing is too slow.