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There is no information in it, it looks like a continuous wave of radio energy coming from space. It is on a frequency that might be a natural one for any intelligent civilization to consider broadcasting on, and it is a narrowband signal, meaning it only covers a small range of frequencies.


> There is no information in it

We actually don't know that. There might or might not have been some information in it; we did not capture or retain enough to be sure either way.


2 questions. Are we capable of generating something like that particularly when that happened? and was there ever an attempt to respond in some sort?


It's a pretty easy signal to generate, even back then. I believe they've made efforts to scan the stars in that direction, but given the distance to them it would be decades or centuries until they'd see a response from us.


Right so to my understanding of what you just said, This means that it most likely wasn't from earth because of the origin location correct?




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