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Re:Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination i... by MattRix on Sunday March 04, 2018 @07:45PM (#16517841)
I just finished reading The Three-Body Problem, which covers some of the same ground... though the aliens in that book end up communicating in some more exotic ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)

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Re:Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination i... by weerd on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:52AM (#16519476)
Maybe it's been too long since I read this, but I feel like it wasn't adequately explained how the aliens understood the initial message. All of the sudden communication was taking place...
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