In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic signal from space, known as a fast radio burst. It was a pulse of radiation so bright, it didn't appear to be caused by any known object in the universe. Explanations ranged from colliding neutron stars to communication signals from an alien civilisation far more advanced from our own.

Scientists have been searching the cosmos for strange signals like the Lorimer Burst for more than 50 years. The film ends with scientists' latest search for extraterrestial intelligence. Horizon obtained exclusive access to film researchers at the Green Bank Telescope searching for radio signals from Tabby's Star, a star so mysterious that some scientists believe it might be surrounded by a Dyson Sphere, a vast energy collector built by advanced aliens.

Horizon - Strange Signals from Outer Space! (2017) is available on BBC iPlayer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...om-outer-space

Mind-expanding stuff .....

Dyson sphere? That sounds like something emanating from the deepest darkest depths of Wiltshire

Freeman John Dyson emanated from Crowthorne, Berkshire, UK, on 15 December 1923 and died on 28 February 2020 (aged 96) in Princeton, New Jersey, US.

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output.

I'm no expert, of course, but in my opinion repeated regular bursts would suggest a natural source.

The sort of thing I should find particularly interesting would be a series of signals describing a mathematical formula: an ordered series of prime numbers, for example.

That would be very difficult to explain as anything other than a message from fellow intelligent beings.

A for Andromeda is a British television science fiction drama serial first made and broadcast by the BBC in seven parts in 1961. Written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle, in conjunction with author and television producer John Elliot, it concerns a group of scientists who detect a radio signal from another galaxy that contains instructions for the design of an advanced computer. When the computer is built, it gives the scientists instructions for the creation of a living organism named Andromeda.

You'e in danger of entering a "Julie Christie" fantasy:

Never heard of it.

I think logically.

Let's just say that someone had the thought long before you then .....

Let's just say that great minds think alike!