Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims

This month, astrophysicists Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier, both from Laval University in Quebec, announced that they had spotted mysterious light signals coming from 234 different stars in our Milky Way galaxy. These pulses match the profile of signals that Borra, in a 2012 paper, predicted intelligent aliens might use to get our attention, the authors wrote.

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What is similar about the 234 pulses?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims

This month, astrophysicists Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier, both from Laval University in Quebec, announced that they had spotted mysterious light signals coming from 234 different stars in our Milky Way galaxy. These pulses match the profile of signals that Borra, in a 2012 paper, predicted intelligent aliens might use to get our attention, the authors wrote.

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What is similar about the 234 pulses?

Even without looking up the paper, what would be similar about those 234 pulses would be that they’re monochromatic. That’s the easiest and cheapest way to get our attention. Light from stars is (except in certain cases that I could explain) consistent with a Planck radiation spectrum from a hot body. So to get the attention of someone across the galaxy generate a monochromatic light pulse from a laser.