Two astrophysicists working in different parts of the Earth - John Lerndom from the University of Hawaii (USA) and Michael Hipsteck from the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen (Germany) simultaneously announced that they were able to record unknown "pulsations of extraterrestrial origin" - presumably signals from extraterrestrial intelligence …
The signals are sent at intervals of equal length and last for about a millisecond each: this is a kind of cosmic Morse code. To send them, it took power comparable to the energy that the Sun produces in a day.
The sender, if one exists, is outside the solar system, but still in our "home" galaxy - in the Milky Way region, no further. Otherwise, astrophysicists believe, cosmic dust would interfere with the signals.
Both researchers are sure that pulsating signals are of artificial origin and carry meaningful information. In this opinion, they are strengthened by the fact that the scattering index for all gaps between signals has the same multiplicity of 187.5.
The probability that this is just a coincidence for ten signals is 5: 10,000. It is much more likely that the signals are sent by intelligent beings or generated by some kind of cosmic process. But the signal of natural origin would hardly be so uniform.
The number one challenge for Lernd and Hipsteck is to determine, as far as possible, the exact location of the signal. Task number two is to decipher the mysterious space Morse code. The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Earth, the solar system and all the individual stars visible to the naked eye.
The Sun revolves around the center of the Galaxy at a speed of 220-240 km / s, making one revolution in about 200 million years. Thus, for the entire time of its existence, the planet Earth has flown around the center of the Galaxy no more than 30 times.
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