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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/idiotpathic on 2023-06-25 18:47:59+00:00.
Original Title: Scientists from Australia are currently engrossed in the task of deciphering & analyzing the perplexing messages & signals received from space. They strongly believe the transmissions may be an attempt by ET to initiate communication with our species.
This is sensationalist reporting of ordinary scientific research.
According to a report published in the British newspaper The Mirror…
OK, we can stop taking this seriously right there. The article cites one of Britain’s crappiest tabloids as its source.
It’s probably a Quasar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar
The first quasars (3C 48 and 3C 273) were discovered in the late 1950s, as radio sources in all-sky radio surveys.
IIRC, some (or most) emit radio waves periodically as well. Cool find, none-the-less.
This phenomenon, never before observed in space,
Until 1932 when Radio Telescopes were invented and these phenomenons have been being observed ever since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Telescopes#Early_radio_telescopes
Just because you don’t know what it is doesn’t mean it’s aliens.
Seems we’re still a ways off from a three-body problem
