Best HFY Reddit Stories: Old Signals

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[@Bluesonofman]

Reminds me of that one Stilaris race that has human names because they got all of our radio signals

[@phantomwraith1984]

Stellaris

[@MrNorker77]

@@phantomwraith1984 To be fair Stellaris just stole that idea from Stilaris

[@TheKonkaman]

The blorg 😂

[@andyknolls8735]

The first radio waves were sent by the nazi's. It would be hilarious if they had been traveling all this way and finally get her and land and they say " Seig Heil, take me to Hitler". We will have a lot of explaining to do.

[@Bluesonofman]

@@andyknolls8735 We have been sending out radio waves way before WW2

[@serpentinious7745]

I hope their transmission to the humans starts with Sabotan's "The Christmas Truce" 1) Humans are guaranteed to understand it. 2) It clearly signals friendly intent. 3) It shows they are somewhat familiar with and respectful of human culture. 4) It's awesome.

[@najroe]

Yeah, best Christmas song last few years

[@Cortanis001]

This really needs a second part at the bare minimum for the eventual contact with them.

[@BreadGuy01]

Oh I definitely want at least a few more chapters from this one!

[@Modhunter42]

Sadly no, someone already posted, the user's reddit has no updates to this (old) story.

[@jdunn5128]

​@@Modhunter42this is the worst news so far today

[@PanduPoluan]

@@Modhunter42 I hope someone took the idea and expanded it further... It happened several times, I can dream of it happening again...

[@TheDurid1]

Wasn't there a species in Babylon 5 that got TV from the 90s, and loved the daytime soaps? They paid a lot to human diplomats to get copies done of the 'Days of our lives' episodes they missed because of interference of the signal. They never found out who shot JR for decades.

[@creislaw4821]

I think it was Brakiri. From league of non-aligned worlds.

[@federationsoldier6833]

"you there! 2000 republic credits if you can get me season 4 episode 2. I missed it cause of some god damn comsic interference and iw anna knwo who shot JR!"

[@MrBishop077]

@@federationsoldier6833 Just point your Listening station at the M3x PLR9 Gravitational Anomaly, I believe theres a micro-lens there that should be streaming that decade next week . . . 🤣😂

[@andyknolls8735]

I think in The Orville, the Krill named their god Hertz, so Hertz, you guys need to careful with what you transmit.

[@DeathclawJedi]

I have been a fairly big B5 fan since it came out and I do not remember that. But Given show runner JMS's sense of humor (HE SPACED THE BEAR) I would Not put it past the show and I have just forgotten about it over the years. Or maybe it was in one of their blooper reel's.

[@blackfire3744]

Well that was a sudden ending, I think I got whiplash from the abruptness there.

[@Plumber-In-Your-Pocket]

I hope this is the first of many

[@Modhunter42]

Sadly no, someone already posted, the user's reddit has no updates to this (old) story.

[@groofromtheup5719]

those signals would have to be 5-1/2 times more powerful than they thought.

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

For a second I thought they would only need to be a little over twice as powerful, then I remembered the square cube law

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

I think I've seen this story so I'll ask again what I asked then: how the hell did these people think Earth was only 96 lightyears away from them rather than 200+? Signal strength aside, said signals would only be coming from one star system, so even at a couple hundred lightyears, you should be able to tell what direction the signals are coming from, which means you can find the source start system by either a) drawing a line straight to it, or b) draw TWO lines straight to it and see where they intersect. Even if only one system is receiving the signals, this civilization has starships; outfit one with receivers like the narrator's station and move it to a neighboring system to get parallax viewpoints. Also? If you're 200 lightyears from Earth, you're INSIDE the Orion Arm!

[@DeHerg]

Also really weird that these aliens are completely unable to simply backtrack the signal. Even if you assume the signal is too weak to triangulate via signal strength. You could still do it by signal timing(what GPS does). We have missiles that do this and these guys can't strap 3 sensors on a single ship?

[@robertbemis9800]

Never underestimate the power of cultural blindspots

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

@@robertbemis9800 This "cultural blindspot" is somehow preventing an entire civilization from using the most basic signal tracking methods.

[@DeHerg]

@noppornwongrassamee8941 Not just an entire civilization, THREE of them(at minimum, given that they are coalitions of people).

[@robertbemis9800]

@@DeHerg are you sure? The effect of dogma on intrenched academic institutions is staggering

[@AmataTai]

There must be a few stars nearby that are optimal gravitational lenses for such good signal

[@Modhunter42]

Perhaps, but it wouldn't significantly change the travel time of the signal. It could make it harder to find the source though.

[@AmataTai]

@@Modhunter42 Absolutely ~ that way they wouldn't be able to use a hot/cold triangulation method as well as they otherwise might

[@xboxshift_7371]

Looked at author's reddit history, and from what I can see he never made a sequel :(

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

Hi! I'm the author. Sorry, I've been busy IRL and the story has had a few snags, I want to publish something good, and not something stupid as the continuation of this story.

[@ironwolfF1]

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 Not a problem; it's better to side with quality over quantity. TBH, your Muse did a major dump on you and digging out from under it will take time. (I should know, I did an insert to a 'one shot', got the author's blessing and am still assembling the 'universe' for it...simple things are rarely simple, nor easy.)

[@smaragdwolf1]

@@ironwolfF1 there are roughly 2 Ways to write a story. From the inside out or from the outside in. Either you build the Story and try to build the world around it or your build the World first and then write the story as part of this World. Both has positive and negative aspects. Writing the story is faster, but you will struggle to build the world around it. Building the World first is alot more complex and time consuming, but the Stories written in this World will feel fantastic. I think the Lord of the Rings Universe is obviously a prime example for the latter.

[@davidaward82]

iirc, some of the first consistently transmitted 'code' was for spectrum/commodore and other tape era basic computers. a lot of those games, due to system limitations, were ship/tank/infantry combat simulations... against aliens. hfy story: aliens recieve transmitted code, they manage to translate it to a working program, and see a simple 'defensive simulation' featuring their own race, their subordinates, and their mothership, defeated by a single tank.

[@davidaward82]

as an aside, they never could figure out what the floating shields were, or how the best beginner tactic was to fire through your own shield.

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

I want part 2

[@gregkelmis2435]

Two. More chapters. Hell, no hundred more chapters.

[@sedevri864]

Hope this one continues

[@carlfranz6805]

Funny how wars all start with a bunch of bad ideas.

[@the_Kurgan]

That was quite a bit more interesting than most of these stories

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@rogerallen1767]

kool story i looved it hope there is more

[@jameschastain1229]

The author definitely needs to work on more chapters.

[@widdershins5383]

That sounds like the start of a series lol

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

IT'S TURNING THE FRICKING FROGS GAY!

[@andyknolls8735]

Is there a 2nd part?

[@einar8019]

96 light years is not far at all, the diameter of the milky way is 105 thousand light years for crying out loud

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

HI! I'm the author, yeah, I'll admit, I should have slapped a zero or two onto the end of that number.

[@nickdumas2495]

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 Honestly, that would cause even worse issues. If the radio signals they're picking up are even 960 years old, what's been happening on Earth that whole time?

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

@nickdumas2495 well that was kinda the whole idea. The story was partially inspired by a documentary I saw that showed a distant planet and mentioned that if the planet had sentinet life and radios that they would be able to listen to the 1930s Olympics, obviously technology has advanced a whole lot since the 1930s. So the whole idea was that while they've been listenting humanity has been far more technologically advanced.

[@nickdumas2495]

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 Well, you'd expect that in 1000 years the FTL solution would have been found, and humans would be everywhere. If you take the presumption that somehow it wasn't, and instead some alien just recently stumbled into Sol and got nommed by some ridiculous antimatter powered nanotech humans, who now suddenly have FTL drives to combine with their nanoforges and are curbstomping the assholes, that would be a stretch of a scientific blindspot but work fine yeah :D

[@Questor-ky2fv]

Thanks for the interesting story, but where is the rest of it?🤔

[@rossdavies8250]

Begs to be continued...

[@mouserr]

nede moar

[@Modhunter42]

Sadly no, someone already posted, the user's reddit has no updates to this (old) story.

[@orlandobritt1460]

They kinda way too human

[@Archaidence1]

PART 2?

[@ballroomdru]

Where is part 2? Where is part 2? Where is part ?

[@scullcrusher3981]

Hi

[@Pulagan]

Xeno delenda est

[@no-gracias9863]

Exterminatus indeed