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Like this person's guess, only speculation of what this actually is currently on the message board. If you were going to put a signal (that was also a puzzle t
by thedudeabides5 5y ago
Like this person's guess, only speculation of what this actually is currently on the message board.
If you were going to put a signal (that was also a puzzle to be unlocked), seems like the center of the galaxy would be a good place to make it emit from. Kind of obvious place to look.
But yeah, would almost certainly fall into the black hole in the center in a couple million years or whatever.
- waltbosz 5y agoAgreed that the center of galaxy is the best place to put up a billboard. Ha, what if that's all it was, an advert, "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine." Galactic trolls, ha. Is the signal's data available publicly? I wonder what the cryptanalyst community would think of it. I would think that a intelligent species capable of placing a galactic billboard at the center of the galaxy would be intelligent enough to encode their message in an easy to decipher manner. Although, what does "easy to decipher" mean to a species with that technology. They may have stopped using any form of language that we would understand, generations ago. Is math a universal language? Could an alien species use a number system that we wouldn't recognize?
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- dddw 5y agoIntergalactic number station makes sense. Starting to sound like an episode of Lost
- peterhil 5y agoI was also interested about the data (and cryptanalysis on it) – the best I could find with a quick inquiry was the original article published in The Astrophysics Journal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360 There is an open access version at ArxiV.org: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoIf I were to emit a signal for people (beings) to find I wouldn't make it so random. Or, I'd try and make it as regular as possible.