MAXO signals

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Nature volume 436, page 1206 (2005) Cite this article

A new and unfortunate solution to the Fermi paradox.

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  1. Department of Applied Psychology, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

    Caroline Haafkens

  2. Police Detective College, Lagos, Nigeria

    Wasiu Mohammed

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  1. Charles Stross is an Edinburgh-based science-fiction writer and freelance computer journalist. His novella The Concrete Jungle has just won a Hugo award. His latest novel is Accelerando.

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  2. Caroline Haafkens
  3. Wasiu Mohammed

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Stross, C., Haafkens, C. & Mohammed, W. MAXO signals. Nature 436, 1206 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4361206a

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  1. amanfromMars

    Things have come a long way along the paths of progress since 25 August 2005.Things nowadays are enabled to be completely different whenever in Future Actions are Synchronised and/or Spontaneously NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated.

    Hmmm? :-) Is there any choice in that being an AI Tool and ElectroMagneticPulse Weapon to Boot and Wield?