Fringey Mini: Transmission Undeliverable

This week, we unpack new SETI research suggesting that space weather might be scrambling alien messages before they ever reach Earth — solar winds, plasma bursts, and coronal tantrums turning technosignatures into static. Between riffs on human hubris, cosmic interference, and the idea that the universe might’ve sent us straight to voicemail, we ask the real question: what if first contact already happened, and we just didn’t pick up?https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/11/seti-aliens-space-extraterrestrial-signals/89096341007/

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