Source of famed Wow! signal likely found

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The actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

It certainly sounds like the first plausible explanation for the signal, though if this is credible it's remarkable it took nearly 50 years.

A team from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo thinks they have found the answer, and unfortunately, it's not aliens.

maybe that is not so unfortunate. paging Robin Hanson,...

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