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SETI is investigating an extraterrestrial signal from Deep Space

observer.com

I can't decide if I should be excited about this or not.

  "The signal’s strength indicates that if it in fact came from a isotropic beacon"

My question is - what is the signal? Maybe I missed it, but what makes them think this is artificial?

There's computations based on information theory that can give insights about the amount of information in a signal. A mathematician could probably give a more complete answer, but I think it's the idea.

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