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I'm mooting it as a possibility, tin foil or not.

I more meant they could be editing transmissions and inputs from all the digitally-based means we have analysing the universe - including Voyager, telescopes, gravity wave detectors... CERN.

It was an idea I pondered trying to turn into a short story, but I'm not a writer, so.. here we are.

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Ready the short story True Names by Vernor Vinge. My favorite short story .

https://ia801004.us.archive.org/0/items/truenamesvingevernor...

His later book A Deepness in the Sky also revolves around the same ideas.

That was an awesome story! I think I had read it 40 years ago, but in an age where AGI is close to real.... its thought provoking.

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