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a signal was received from deep space that lasted for 70 seconds, it is known as the wow! signal.

35 years later on the anniversary we send back a response.

10,000 twitter messages, lol, the aliens are gonna crush us now!

On the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 Twitter messages, in the direction from which the signal originated.[13][14] In the response, Arecibo scientists have attempted to increase the chances of intelligent life receiving and decoding the celebrity videos and crowd-sourced Tweets by attaching a repeating sequence header to each message that will let the recipient know that the messages are intentional and from another intelligent life form

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal