The logic of a cognitively and technologically highly advanced civilization producing such a massive signal is that the signal would be a glaringly conspicuous, multidirectional, or all-directional, image or signal that would capture the attention of a maximum of other such advanced civilizations with advanced astronomy and astrophysics on the lookout for like ET civilizations, with which it might communicate, as contrasted with an initially unused beamed signal that could get lost or disrupted (photoelectric, or electron-photon, light-spectrum signals can be bent and slowed, and maybe changed informationally almost entirely in ways our science does not know, by the virtually innumerable high-mass gravity objects along the path of its journey through outer space to its destination) or have a detectionally inefficient narrow viewing direction or directionality and thereby attract few or no advanced ET communications prospects. If our species could produce such a signal, and it required quantum-physics or nuclear-physics quantum particle power, we would very likely safely produce it, with respect to our solar system and our closest neighbor solar system, in the huge interstellar space between our solar systems, to be succeeded by beamed signal communications in reply to ETI (extraterrestrial intelligent) beamed signals or celestial signal responses to our introductory celestially displayed large signal announcing and advertising the presence of our technologically advanced, technically intelligent species society, able to signal communicate celestially.
Logically, detectable and detected returned signals beamed back to the beacon signal location, detected via ET-signal detection satellites in the vicinity of the beacon signal, and, to the extent possible, via terrestrial electronic telescopes of the beacon signal originator, would be replied to with beamed signals by the species source of the initial beacon signal, establishing, as applicable, interplanetary, interstellar, intergalactic signal-exchange-communications
What if this circa 240-million-year-old X-ray signal is artificial and just happened to get to our planet when human society on our planet has reached, in first-world nations, space-technology and high-tech maturation and just happens to be in search of such a signal and is technologically able to detect it? Wow! What timing that would be and it would be compelling implication that its senders would have been hecka, hella more technologically advanced and scientifically knowledgeable and intelligent than our species!
SETI and Earth's space agencies might try flashing back (signaling back), despite the immense time and distance gulf and lapse between our planet and the location of the possible interstellar communication's initiator civilization, with separately each X-ray and laser-beam signals unmistakably transmitting intuitively and universally understandable, to a technically literate mind or thinking machine, basic math patterns. The basic math signals would be our foundational counting system of the numbers of from one to five hundred, or even one thousand, with each count being of the same duration and each number beyond the number one represented as a cluster of evenly spaced count pulses with a uniform in duration absence of signal between pulse clusters representing numbers. For example, an X-ray or laser-beam pulse with a duration of two seconds, followed by a signal blackout with a duration of four seconds, would represent the number one, and an X-ray or laser-beam cluster of two pulses with each pulse having a duration of two seconds and separated by a half second, and the cluster followed by the standard signal blackout of four seconds, would represent the number two. In short order the recipient technologically advanced and so able-to-communicate ET society or societies would observe that our species has a math system based on the number ten and would be likely to signal us back using this math system. Thereupon and thereafter, we could evolve (mutually construct and develop over repeated or ongoing communications) a common interstellar or interplanetary, or other, ET language for complex communication and information and knowledge sharing (also including pictures, videos/movies [all the more reason to protect and conserve Earth's remaining terrestrial and aquatic wilderness and wildlife supreme treasures, of which Africa, South America, Siberia, India, Thailand, Canada, Indonesia and Vietnam are their dissipatingly and tenuously last major strongholds -- priceless natural treasures, irreplaceable biological treasures, sure to wow and spellbind a great many ETI civilizations [[like dinosaurs and many extinct species, flora and fauna, would wow and enthrall us if we could see them live in their natural habitats]] whose cognitively twilight progenitors or predecessors were sure to have annihilated the corresponding wonders of a great many of their worlds], voice/sound, radio/TV broadcasts, e-manuscripts, e-libraries, building-product-device-machine-vehicle-industrial design/schematics, 3-D holograms and 3-D object-printing ideas/catalogs, script, advice [like for improving or for new super-profitable, efficient and powerful clean and renewable fuel-energy resources and technology], etc.), that might hugely leap forward our planetary problem solving, creativity, and sciences and technology, as a species, and save us from ourselves, as a species, and our planet from our collectively rapacious, nihilistic and reckless techno-economic and warfare genius -- and/or such possible epigenetic nature -- and abiding political, ideological, social and religious, dangerous collective or mass idiocy and collective and mass psychosis, often associated with nonsense and irrational phantom and magical-causation thinking, self delusion, intellectual and spiritual fraud and abuse, pernicious dishonesty, antidemocratic chauvinism and self-righteous bias, exclusiveness and privilege, ethically gross self contradiction and inconsistency, and destructive and deadly "fanaticism."
No other species on Earth has been observed to engage in trade (resources, goods and services, etc., exchange or barter, especially in a wholesale or retail market-like relationship, whether primitive or sophisticated, or informal or formal) -- which would be the exchange of art, media art, information and knowledge in our initial astro-communications relationship with advanced ETs -- apart from humans on Earth. If we saw another species on Earth engaging in trade we would undoubtedly regard that species as a collectively, socially intelligent species and view it in awe. We would also likely work out a way of communicating with that other species, since trade necessitates an organismically advanced means of communication over minimal-content, instinct-based and instinct-limited animal communication, on an individual-to-individual basis, and attempt to communicate with and trade with that species, even just for fun, even if it were bees, birds, monkeys, dogs or dolphins, etc. Contact with cognitively and technologically advanced ET species, in interstellar distance too far away from our solar system to ever be able to make physical contact with us, to our mutual safety, will open the way to a new economy in the trade of new art, media art (including music), information, knowledge, science, engineering, technology and intellectually transcendent ideas for the human species and human civilization, to our unimaginable benefit, as well as open the way to our establishing a universal, probably easier to learn, understand and use, ultra-efficient and ultra-potent language. (However, various other species, ruled by males, have been observed and documented to accept outsider females into their territories and among their numbers and females have been observed to bond and mate preferentially with resourced or alpha males in male-dominance primate societies, with either of these situations being the offering or making available of a domicile, goodies and/or a relationship by power males to outsider and insider females alike in exchange for reciprocal affiliation, or companionship, and prospective mating, from females, constituting a very rudimentary, strictly creature-needs form of trade and being social-sexual behavioral trade -- in addition to controlling competition with same species outsiders for a food territory, outsider-male-chimpanzee-pack hunts for and attacks on one another may be for accessing outsider females [behavior commonly observed among primitive tribal, nomadic and marauding/raiding and warring humans] so as to have a maximum of estrus-state females continuously available in their presence and outsider-lioness-pack hunts for and attacks on one another may be for keeping the other outsider females out of access to and away from the territories ruled by their harem-keeping males or alpha males so as to protect their opportunities or occasions for mating with their males during their, the lionesses', estrus states. And let's not play naive about militarily technologically superior creatures coming into contact with competitor creatures of similar mental abilities, like the documented history of conquestive human societies warring to subjugate, colonize and enslave the people of other militarily lesser and vulnerable human societies [lower-literacy and largely illiterate armed forces with superior weapons and combat tactics have overrun socially and otherwise technologically more advanced societies with stagnant, outmoded weapons technology and weapons, again and again, in human history, as with, in recent centuries, the Huns, European barbarians, medieval western-Asian and pan-Arab Islamics, Mongols, Ottomans, post-Romanic Iberian, mainland, British and Scandinavian Europeans, and the Soviets and U.S. Americans], whether of high or low technical and intellectual achievement, turning those of high achievement largely into goods-and-services producer and provider colonies and those of low achievement largely into raw-materials, slave-labor and servant societies, and mainly exterminating grossly different but functionally similar species also making tools and wielding fashioned weapons, as modern humans implicitly mainly did to much or most of the Homo erectus and Neanderthal species, and maybe other hominids, who once co-existed with them prior to their complete disappearance circa thirty thousand years ago [they may have killed one another and modern humans as well] -- something we would probably have done to the chimpanzees and gorillas if they had the same comparable lower technical-intelligent behavior as they do now but wielded spears for hunting and defense, made fire and camped when most modern humans functioned on the same general technological level but with superior spear and stone weapons and tools than the other co-existing competitor hominid species, now extinct. This Darwinian species competition among behaviorally similar, with respect to territory and food sourcing, but rival species, all with a similarly competitive hominid body structure, suggests perhaps that various technologically intelligent species of the hominid genus were all on the path of advanced cognitive and technological evolution and achievement, and that any would have so evolved or all could have so evolved, in a live-and-let-live relationship with one another [as seems to exist at the species level among gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and baboons] but that there may have been genocidal intolerance among them based on their perceived endangering strikingly alien appearance and competitive weapons and technological capability -- however, some technologically intelligent hominid species may have been vegetarian and peaceful but nevertheless exterminated in fear of their perceived competitive intelligence and their starkly alien appearance in physical characteristics relative to the common characteristics identifying the modern-human hominid species and its pheno-racial varieties. If this is the case, it would indicate that advanced technological species evolution is inevitable in general, given an environment conducive to it, and that it has a span of multiple or a multitude of candidate species that may not tolerate one another [observed among species of ants and Africanized honey bees, killer bees, versus common honey bees] and winnows to a few or a single surviving and reigning species.)
A Universal Extraterrestrial Signal-Beam Language (UETI Lingua Mathematica Morse Code), Precursor to a Universal Extraterrestrial Quantum Particle Physics Computing Instant Communications Language Across Space-Time: Soon to come in the initial lingua mathematica signal-beam-communication exchanges between the sci-technocracies of our species and other cognitively and technologically advanced ETI species would be abbreviation signal beams for number clusters representing discrete numbers (like the mathematically simple and agile Arabic numerals replacing the mathematically bulky and cumbersome Roman numerals here on Earth) and explicated signal beams for first the mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, with abbreviation signal beams coming to simplify and shorten these, graduating up the scale of the hierarchy of mathematics, with instructional and problem-solving games being played between the ETI species, for evolving a common signal-beam nomenclature for our exchanging the laws of all higher mathematics (including mathematics and such's laws unknown to our species) and physics equations expressing the abstract and cosmological laws of mathematical-mechanical and empirical nature and their applications to innovation, engineering and all variety of sci-tech. This UETI language evolution and knowledge exchange with cognitively and technologically far more advanced ETI species -- safely in distance, for us, too far from our solar system to survive travel here to contact us physically and pose a possible physical danger to us -- would lead to our achieving a mastery in understanding and manipulating quantum particle physics (quantum mechanics), in filling the void in our species' physics community's insufficient understanding and knowledge of quantum particles and their behavior and in reconciling our physics community's discrepant understanding and knowledge of the laws of nature as to the unity between microcosmic quantum particle physics and Albert Einstein's macrocosmic relativity physics and the coherent interaction between these two domains of physic and would lead to the sci-technocracy of our species developing quantum particle power and communications computers, the later for instantaneous UETI communications.
Even if such a civilization exhausted its planetary resources in the elapsed circa 240 million years since the production of the signal, given the technological intelligence of its species, it may have colonized other habitable planets and moons in its home cluster of galaxies or terraformed usable planets and moons therein and colonized them, or done both. Such a species therefore may yet hardily endure, though much changed over circa 240 million years, likely for the better and be even far more cognitively and technologically advanced. The technocracy of such a species very well may have mastered quantum-physics computing and (tele)communications and be able to communicate with our species instantly, circumventing the speed-of-light barrier and resulting severe constraints on timely and efficient signal transmission and exchange, or (tele)communications, between us associated with the vast distance separating us, if it were to teach the technocracy of our species this kind of physics (quantum particle physics), which has dumbfounded and eluded in considerable grasp the best science and technology minds of our species, including that of physicist Albert Einstein, for over one hundred years to date.
Because our expert international space-science and astrophysical-sciences community does not know the production source of this unusual X-ray signal, it would be scientifically prudent for this community to respond to and investigate it with a wide-open, flexible mindset and bear in mind that the means of its production (the apparent source) may not necessarily be the root source of its production. This community should also consider that although this X-ray signal seemingly may have taken circa 240 million years for it to have traveled and come to the attention of our species' recently technologically adequate astronomy for detecting it, according to its macrocosmic space-time signature, measuring the distance in light years between the location of the X-ray signal's origin and our approximate location, it actually may have gotten to or been delivered to the perceivability of our solar system and advanced astronomy technology artificially in parallel microcosmic quantum transmission time, which might be or have been virtually instantly. Hence, our space-science and astrophysical sciences community should hedge on the side of taking the broad view, including the intellectually analytical wild side, in its response to determining or assessing the origin of the signal and nevertheless signal beam back to the location of the seemingly galactically ancient incoming signal, with the attitude that our return signal would be multiply available for interception in innumerable galactic forests of stars, or solar planetary systems, in its journey to its destination, where untold numbers of those solar planetary systems might harbor cognitively and technologically advanced ETI societies that might be capable of and interested in detecting and communicatively replying to our signal beam, perhaps with quantum-power computing, astronomy and astrophysics capable of a quantum-speed detection and return signal to our ETI artificial signal beam, as may be a surviving such species in the vicinity of the destination location of our signal beam responding to the initial X-ray signal coming from that location, even if the initial X-ray signal turns out to be entirely natural in origin as determined by our science.
(If a technologically advanced ETI species was capable of contriving an artificial celestial signal such as this one and it had quantum-physics-based engineering and sci-tech to do so, the likelihood is that it would have made the signal a duel-use signal media, being a quantum-power beacon-messaging medium as well as a quantum-power celestial-noise-filtering versus an-artificial-incoming-signal detection and receiving medium [at quantum physics speed]. In its communications relationship with other technologically advanced ETI species with communications systems technology based on Newtonian-Einsteinian macrocosmic physics, it would be able to control the relationship in both receiving and sending signal-beam communications and terminate the relationship so as to never be in two-way contact with the latter type, or our, species again [providing the latter, or we, did not gain quantum-physics computing power and communications technology], since it would have quantum-physics-speed signal sending and receiving communications capability, although it could probably at will [with nearly infinite-in-capacity information-gathering, -recording and -assessing quantum physics computers, and with quantum-physics astrophysics, astronomy and telecommunications technology] monitor and surveil the telecommunications, broadcast and other electronics signal carrier media of our planet virtually forever, and view our activities on computer via these, ETI-alien to them or our own, technologies. We must not assume that particular technologically advanced ETI alien individuals with access to ETI communications technology we may come into contact with will be mature, rational, responsible or will have intellectual depth. If the ETI communications contact party from beyond does not demonstrate, at length, advanced mathematical, science and engineering knowledge, we must politely and promptly end communications with that party. Probablistically, in view of the colossal number of stars, and their planetary-moon systems, in our own and in all the other galaxies in the universe and the colossal number of galaxies in the universe and their largely sharing the same chemicals and often same varieties of chemistry and varieties of cosmic and geophysical conditions present in the universe, there must be numerous technologically advanced ETI civilization in any galaxy and it is just a matter of time before we come into contact with these if our sci-technocracy endures and continuously progresses in its knowledge, know-how, intellectual depth and wizardry and our ETI astrophysics, and astronomy and astro-communications technologies advance to a state of capability to make such contact, or mutual contact.
Granted, the odds of our finding any evident or signal-beam accessible technologically advanced ETI in any particular solar, planetary-moon system is low, but not terribly low [odds of one in eight for such life among the eight primary planets of our solar-planetary system -- really, for our solar-planetary system and others, the incidence, or realized odds, or rate of occurrence dictated by circumstantial nature rather than by random chance or purely numbers probability], in consideration of our observation of and reflection on the apparent lack of other technologically advanced life [especially terrestrial life] among the eight planets, two dwarf planets and circa three-hundred-forty known moons in our own solar system -- observed via the data gathered from our ground and space observatories and spacecraft probes of the other orbs in our solar system. This possible understanding only means that, by extrapolation, the ratio of terrestrially life-bearing, or merely life-bearing, planets and moons to planets and moons without terrestrial life, or entirely without life, in a solar-planetary system, is very low, because only a few planets, with associated moons, could, as a practical matter, occupy the limited thermally and geophysically optimal location, or space, in that solar system, conducive to the emergence and maintenance of at least terrestrial life relative to a life-compatible and supportive star. These planets and moons in the solar-system fertility zone [the ideal spatial location in the solar system for the genesis of life as we know it], relative their star, would also require surface-level land masses with abundant surface-level, long-term standing bodies and courses of liquid, mobile water in order to host the evolution of technological species, which, from what we can observe of our planet and its fossil record, would be terrestrial species, species clearly able to sense and observe topography, terrain, weather, seasons, the forces and events of mundane nature, the cycling of day and night, the sky, etc., and in degrees manipulate nature, like in the incipient technologies and technological behavior of the making of hives, etc., by ants and bees, the nests of birds, chimpanzees and gorillas, stone and stick use by chimpanzees and gorillas, the burrowing ground holes of prairie dogs, gophers, moles, rabbits, snakes, trap-door and wolf spiders, the snare webs of spiders, the fishing dams of beavers, the food-stash sites of squirrels, the excrement cover holes of feral cats, the bone and object burial and retrieval behavior of dogs, actual speech in parrots [On the competence level of a normal four-year-old modern human child, a normal African grey parrot can learn whatever spoken human language it is raised in, to a very limited extent, and engage in original, spontaneous, thought-mediated dialog, to a very limited extent, with its owner human/s -- many humans carry on intellectually like the primates they are but with exponentially greater parrot speaking and thought, not substantially rational and often, unlike parrots of any kind, dangerous, abilities], in the innovations, tools, inventions and weapons of our predecessor hominids, culminating in or leading to our planetary apex technologically advanced modern human species -- technological products and behavior apparently not possible for aquatic and marine creatures most often constrained by their bio-architectures and far-less sensory informative underwater environment from engaging in technological activity and evolving technologically, although some water species may have larger and basically more powerful and smarter brains than all terrestrial creatures, including modern humans. [However, the one with the superior technology, and technological ability, and sufficient overall ability to use technology to one's advantage reigns.] The probable low incidence of the occurrence of technologically advanced life within a solar-planetary system does not mean that life in absolute terms is rare in a galaxy or the universe; rather, it only means that it is likely to be rare within any solar-planetary system, for all solar systems, compelled by the structural circumstances of prevailing nature. However, in the aggregate of all solar-planetary systems in our galaxy alone [among hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe], The Milky Way, with an estimated no less than one-hundred-billion stars but up to as many as circa four-hundred-billion stars, technologically advanced ETI species, across all possible levels of advanced technological achievement, should number in the tens of millions, without consideration for global destructions or extinctions of life globally resulting from technology. Chances are that life forms from the simple to complex inhabit the subsurface of planets and moons, outside of a solar system fertility zone and without abundant, lasting and mobile surface water, or an analog of such surface water, when those planets and moons harbor lasting and mobile subsurface liquid water or water moisture, indicating an internal or celestially interactive heat source hospitable to life for those planets and moons. However, the life forms inhabiting these types of planets and moons are unlikely to be technologically intelligent life forms, unless former-surface-living advanced technological species were forced, for their continued survival, into dwelling in the subsurface by a change in the surface environment that made it unlivable or unless ETIs from another planet or moon, unable to live on the surface of the planet or moon new to them as a home but able to live in its subsurface, colonized the livable subsurface of the planet or moon.)
Such a species may have achieved in reality the fantasy physics feats, for our species, of quantum tunneling, worm holing and teleportation, but for quantum-particle-based information, or digital-information, instantaneous transmission across universal space-time and the informational simulations or representations of macrocosmic objects (things composed of atoms and not being subatomic entities or essences) at their destinations, and not for the truly impossible intact conveyance of actual macrocosmic objects or viable pre-organismics structures or entities or organisms nor for the likely impossible recycled disassembly to quantum particles and follow-up atomic reassembly of macrocosmic things to the original, identical inert thing/s or functional pre-life structure/s or entity/ies or living thing/s.
Theoretical Possibility of Warp Drive (space warp speed) from/& Negative Energy Fuel/Powering of Warp-Drive Spacecraft according to mainstream physics
