| ▲ | jfengel 6 days ago | |
Yep. It's wildly unlikely that this was any kind of deliberate signal. Whatever caused it, it only happened once -- which isn't what you'd expect from aliens hoping to make contact. We only recorded the fact of the signal's existence, without enough resolution to make out any pattern within it. If the aliens were hoping we'd decode it, they were banking on us happening to catch their signal at a very specific instant in time, never to be repeated. | ||
| ▲ | N19PEDL2 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> it only happened once -- which isn't what you'd expect from aliens hoping to make contact. Actually it’s exactly what we did with the Arecibo message, our only attempt to make contact. | ||