I can just picture Marvin the Martian pointing a crazy death ray at earth, only to have the signal degraded to a weak laser pulse by the time it reached us.

Just about a year ago Ragbir Bhathal was scanning the night sky for alien activity, just as he does every night. Except, on this December eve Ragbir Bhathal found a strong, regular, repeating signal. Unless the whole thing stemmed from a huge glitch occurring simultaneously in all his million-dollar lab equipment, there stands a strong chance that Ragbir found a message sent by some intelligent, alien race.

via Q+A: Ragbir Bhathal, Australias Leading Alien Hunter | Motherboard.