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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.