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It’s hard to imagine any signal coming from space that would be
of no interest. Our modern definition of noise, as unwanted sound or signal, is a
relatively recent one—the word used to mean strife, and nausea. Is the new
meaning useful? Or does it encourage us to dismiss what we can’t interpret?
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