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In the still hours before dawn on October 24, 2025, the universe may have whispered back. Deep in the Karoo desert, South Africa’s MeerKAT Radio Telescope caught a faint, deliberate signal — two razor-sharp absorption lines cutting through the static of space. Its source: the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, a cosmic wanderer that shouldn’t be transmitting anything at all. For the first time in history, something from beyond our solar system seemed to speak. The signal wasn’t random noise or a glitch in the equipment; it carried the unmistakable molecular signature of water breaking apart — hydrogen and oxygen — the same chemistry that fuels life on Earth. Even more eerie? The signal came from almost the exact same region of sky as the infamous 1977 “Wow! Signal.” Coincidence… or a cosmic reply, nearly fifty years in the making?

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