Alien hunters pick up over a dozen strange new signals from a distant galaxy

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But… you get to go to a tropical island and see your progenitor. That’d be nice… even if only for a minute.

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Natural lasers exist but new theories for the origin of beams of radio waves may be developed in any event.

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“Send more Chuck Berry.”

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Just some intergalactic war. It seems highly advanced weapons emit a lot of these FRBs.

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What makes people think we’d recognize intelligence in another species? We haven’t done a stellar job of utilizing intelligence ourselves. There seems to be a lot to the theory that when a species reaches the technological level of present-day mankind they kill themselves off.

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Can we message them that it would be great if they could get here as quickly as possible for a run as a third-party candidate in 2020?

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“As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.”

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Never has the number of individuals eager to open with “I, for one, welcome our …” been greater.

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“The Stars are right!”

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I’m not very knowledgeable on radio technology, is there a known human application (lol) that would produce a frequency sweep similar to the one shown in the GIF, intentionally or as a byproduct of some other process?

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Han Solo’s ex-wife?

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The owls are not what they seem

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ping C16H19N03

Pinging C16H19N)3 [1001.2217.4767.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1001.2217.4767.1: bytes=32 time=0 TTL=0
Reply from 1001.2217.4767.1: bytes=32 time=0 TTL=0
Reply from 1001.2217.4767.1: bytes=32 time=0 TTL=0
Reply from 1001.2217.4767.1: bytes=32 time=0 TTL=0

Ping statistics for 1001.2217.4767.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3.1556926e19ms, Maximum = 3.1556926e19ms, Average = 3.1556926e19ms

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