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The East-Pointing Compass, the Mason Jar, and the 31 Signals
The East-Pointing Compass, the Mason Jar, and the 31 Signals
Fear of the unknown clutches the chest when a routine maintenance check yields a mason jar with a column of numbers and a child's compass pointing dead east - and 31 patterned radio bursts recorded over seven weeks at a remote observatory. What was left in the locker, who left it, and why did a steady astronomer log prime-number-spaced signals on the hydrogen line for nearly a month without telling anyone?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at Cassidy Ridge Observatory: the discovery of the jar by a utility lineman…
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