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0 pointsrootbear5y ago0 comments

I just throw some gasoline on the "It must be Aliens!" theory (to which I do not subscribe!) and point out that heavily compressed data looks random...

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menybuvico5y ago

As does encrypted data.

elwell5y ago

Compression is just a bad encryption algorithm. Encryption is just a bad compression algorithm.

beamatronic5y ago

That’s why somebody needs to send out a sequence of prime numbers

lumost5y ago

What protocol do you use to represent the sequence? Bytes, Morse, Amplitude modulation, frequency modulation? All of these combinations may appear random to one without the right codec.

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namarie5y ago

It would take 500 million years to get there, if the signal was strong enough in the first place.

anoniuyiu334125y ago

Maybe is encrypted because we are not the intended receiver.

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