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The symbols flicker and jump on the screen, as if the medium of magnetic tape cannot quite contain them.
HEMSLEY: “Whether or not we can safely make assumptions when dealing with a truly alien intelligence is unclear. Who sent this message? Who is meant to receive it? What context are we missing? Are these symbols pictograms or ideograms? Since this is the only example we have, we’ve got very little to go on.”