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Radio signal from space repeats every hour, defying explanation(newatlas.com)

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Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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That signal might be insignificant to us; but it may be their way of establishing a timescale.

The time may be derived from how long their planet takes to rotate…aka the length of one sub-unit of their day…aka 1/24th of their day.

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Umbrias@beehaw.org
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Or, it could be the periodicity of the lifecycle of a cool bug they like, or it could be just a random period from any huge number of celestial objects we have yet to categorize. I have a guess for which of these options it is, personally.

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