A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way

Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by awb on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:54AM (#28840496)

The pattern probably wouldn’t be random then.

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by dkarp on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:17AM (#28840773)

Maybe it's still under construction

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by lugged on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:28AM (#28840920)

Maybe it's Morse code

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by ddalex on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:35PM (#28841752)

Maybe it's Maybelline

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by typon on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:59AM (#28840570)

"Random" is a very loaded word. If you were looking at some arbitrary nth digit of pi it would look random to you as well.

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by hasmanean on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:35AM (#28841025)

Some people will describe any non-periodic signal as random.

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Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way by mcculley on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:03AM (#28840611)

Compressed or encrypted data should also look random.

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