Technology

A few nights ago, I sat laid on my bed, anxiously tuning the radio next to me, flipping through the airwaves quickly, looking for just a trace of a signal. And then I stumbled on it, unexpectedly.

The signal was faint at first, but it was loud enough that it caught my attention, even underneath the Spanish Christian station that it was playing underneath. Enthralled, I quickly fiddled with the buttons on the radio, trying to find a better frequency to listen to it on. I never got the Spanish Christian channel entirely removed, but eventually the signal became way too clear to be anything else.

A quick succession of beeps filled the silent room followed soon by another, slower succession of beeps. A second time the fast beeps passed, and then proceeded to repeat themselves over and over again. Excitedly, I pulled up my notebook, wrote the time, the date, and the frequency of the signal.


I had no doubt in my mind that what I had just ...