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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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