Message from Space.

What may be possibly, very, very big news...

SETI (that screensaver thing people run to help process information in search for extra-terrestrial communication) has discovered what could be a message from an alien race. This news from New Scientist whose website is (at the time of posting) bogged down to slower than sluggish.

Here's the CNN write-up.

And here's a related link to a New Scientist story on how aliens may have, essentially, messages in bottles already here on Earth. The idea being:

Assuming the aliens do not care how long it takes for their message to arrive, beaming a radio signal that can be detected 10,000 light years away, for instance, would take a million billion times as much energy as just shooting out matter in which data is embedded. "If energy is what you care about, it's tremendously more efficient to toss a rock," Rose says.

But it looks like we may have gotten the radio signal first. Cynics, though, are still welcome.