Signals From Sirius

By Natalia Corres

When a lunar science team discovers strange signals from the vicinity of Sirius, it becomes a catalyst for discovery, intrigue and adventure. The questions that arise will lead to more questions and may change the face of the planet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Natalia Corres
• Release date: Oct 6, 2019

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Dedication

To my friends and chosen family – JK etal, Linda, Dar, Kym, Christina, Santi and my husband, Bill. Thank you for your unending belief in my writing.

Contents

Dedication

Forward

It begins

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

About the Author

Other books by Natalia Corres

Poetry

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Forward

This is an experiment in combining flash fiction installments of a scifi and speculative fiction story into a book. The various parts were originally published by me as @Serroc, on Narrative.org with Part 1 as the entry into a flash fiction contest there. I hope you enjoy the short burst nature of the flash fiction as it carries the tale along.

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Thank you for reading!

It begins

When the Reagan Memorial Lunar Outpost invited civilian scientists to conduct their studies on base, I scrambled to get into the program. Ultimately it was a lottery, and I won. And here I am, on the dark side of the moon, listening to and analyzing signals for close to 15 hours at a time. Not by myself, of course, there is a whole contingent of scientists up here in various nation’s outposts – working together.

My equipment is pointed towards Alpha Canis Majoris, (commonly known as Sirius) not only because it is the brightest star in our field of vision, but because it is only 2.6 parsecs away. And my thesis and the rest of my career depend on being able to unscramble the waves from that direction into something intelligible or at least explicable. Astronomers have been detecting signals from that region for over a decade but no one has been able to discern a pattern. The signal is weak and cuts out from time to time.

I spend a lot of that 15 hours reviewing past records of the signals received and running them through various filters and simulations. The devil is in the details they say, so it pays to review and reanalyze in case you missed something, or in case you get some fresh angle to check out.

In my so-called spare time I tutor kids on earth in astronomy and physics via videoconference. My favorite part is always when we use the ripple tanks. Drop a pebble in the tank and watch the ripples. Understanding how waves travel and reflect off of various surfaces, helps you understand the shape of things they are bouncing off of, how far away, and the speed of the ripples or the things they are bounding off. That was how I got hooked on physics and then radio astronomy when I was a kid. Figuring out where things are in the great multidimensional ripple tank that is our universe.

Which was how I had an epiphany about the signals coming from the direction of Sirius. It was as if the signals were whispering in the back of my mind; sending waves and bouncing back and forth in my skull until I finally had a mental picture of what was happening. Now I just had to reconstruct the signals in a computer simulation and see if they did, what I thought they were doing.

While I was setting up the simulation, an astronomer at the Chinese Xiao Yue Station, in the Von Karman crater, alerted me that they had picked up another set of anomalous signals. She sent a copy of the data to me to add to my simulation.

It was like reverse engineering an exploded grenade from pieces scattered across miles in many directions. And when I was listening to the signals I heard some bits that were tantalizingly like language, it was frustrating because I wanted to make it mean something - I guess I really wanted to hear something human-like, so I would remind myself that these were just signals and nothing more …until I heard "oo a