Contemplating the Jackass in the Year of the Tiger
Researchers have found a signal that could be from alien civilizations; so states a report from China’s science ministry. According to the report—which has since been redacted by news sources—researchers at the rather prosaically named Beijing Normal University identified “several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the earth.” The signals were detected, ostensibly, by Sky Eye, the world’s largest, most sensitive single-dish radio telescope.