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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:05pm on 08/09/2008 under , , ,
I love this idea. In short, modulating the variations in Cepheid luminosity could serve as an extra-galactic telegraph. Best line from the abstract: "One can construct many scenarios wherein it would be desirable for such a civilization of star ticklers to transmit data to anyone else within viewing range."

Damn, I want to read science fiction about star ticklers.

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