MAXO signals - A new and unfortunate solution to the Fermi paradox

The scientific journal Nature has published quite a few 1-page science fiction stories as part of their "Futures" series, including this one by Charles Stross.

You can find more "Futures" stories from Nature at http://www.concatenation.org/futuresindex.html

If you find this story amusing, you might also enjoy Charles Stross's novel Accelerando, which explores similar themes as a subplot. Stross released the book under a Creative Commons license at the same time it was published in hardcover: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

Next time include that it's by Charles Stross in the title - I almost didn't click through to the article! As an aside, anyone who enjoyed this will surely enjoy his novel, "Glasshouse", and I highly reccomend it for anyone vaguely interested in the SciFi genre.

ROFL.. Did not bother to read url or any of the comments until I had finished the story. I was gettinginto the article very seriously and copied a few things to google until I realized what it was. HAHAHA