Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star

Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by mrfusion on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:59PM (#25489444)

Is it possible to try to decode the signal we’ve received so far? Could there be information in it?

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Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by mkoubaa on Sunday December 20, 2020 @04:35PM (#25489755)

We don't know their codes nor do we know the format of the original signal (it aint ascii) so my guess is not really.

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Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by AreYouElite on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:15AM (#25492322)

It's a large universe, somebody out there is bound to use ascii. Proposing an ascii federation for this spiral arm of the galaxy.

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Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by jtsiskin on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:59AM (#25492982)

If it was a extraterrestrial signal intended for someone to decode, we likely could decode it.

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Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by jobigoud on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:17AM (#25493329)

If it's compressed correctly you might not even realize it's a signal. If I send a jpeg by radio to 1930 I'm not sure what they could make of it.

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