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Agreed 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 t
by waltbosz 5y ago
Agreed 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