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Old 12-23-2020, 12:44 PM   #3561
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My go to on things like this is Phil Plait. Good articled here.

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-sign...ly-from-aliens
So he's speculating just like everyone else? Doesn't seem all that informative to me.

There's a range of theories out there - I don't think anyone is claiming little green men. I prefer this quote from the University of California, Berkeley from the Scientific American article about the same radio transmission:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...xima-centauri/

Most curiously, it occupies a very narrow band of the radio spectrum: 982 megahertz, specifically, which is a region typically bereft of transmissions from human-made satellites and spacecraft. “We don’t know of any natural way to compress electromagnetic energy into a single bin in frequency” such as this one, Siemion says. Perhaps, he says, some as-yet-unknown exotic quirk of plasma physics could be a natural explanation for the tantalizingly concentrated radio waves. But “for the moment, the only source that we know of is technological.”
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