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'Galactic internet' proposed

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Aliens might have sent messages by tweaking variable stars.

Just by gazing at the stars, earthling astronomers might have unwittingly picked up broadcasts from extraterrestrial civilizations. So says a neutrino physicist, adding that it might take researchers just a few months of searching to find evidence of this alien internet.

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  1. Learned, J. G., Kudritzki, R.-P., Pakvasa, S. & Zee. A. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.0339v2 (2008).

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Choi, C. 'Galactic internet' proposed. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1091

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