The SETI researchers in Contact received this signal as a sequence of 1126 beats and pauses, where 1’s correspond to beats and 0’s to pauses. This sequence represents the prime numbers from 2 to 101, where a given prime number is represented by the corresponding number of beats (that is, 1’s), and the individual prime numbers are separated by pauses (that is, 0’s). The SETI researchers in Contact took this signal as decisive confirmation of an extraterrestrial intelligence. What about this signal
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