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Alien messages or not? Understanding radio waves from deep space

caption:   The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico where astronomers picked up radio bursts from space
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The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico where astronomers picked up radio bursts from space
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Bill Radke talks to aerospace and science editor for Geekwire, Alan Boyle, about some mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from three billion light-years away and what he explains what you should do if you find see bits of a space lab falling from the sky.

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