“Yulia, everything is there. Pictures from Voyager, recordings. This is the whole golden record, and it’s not something that is posted on the Internet on NASA’s website, it’s the one itself, the original. The signal is very strong and accompanied by very strong magnetic radiation.”
“What?” Yulia turned to Dr Capri and looked at him hopefully.
Dr Capri responded to her gaze, but could not help her. He didn’t understand the Russians’ conversation.
“How did the detection work out?” Yulia and Tulu-Manchi’s silent dialogue was interrupted by her boss.
“We started the system, and I turned on the search. The equipment started giving me a targeting error. They tried to point again and again, but they couldn’t. I turned off the telescope and the system started getting a steady signal through the antennas. I used an audio simulation program, and we heard music. Then we realized it was something familiar…” Yulia didn’t have time to finish her thought.
“I’ll call you in half an hour,” Mikhail said without disconnecting his Skype, stood up from the table and started talking to someone.
Yulia looked down at the old keyboard, and only now she noticed that there were incomprehensible squiggles on it next to the usual English letters. Tulu-Manchi looked at Yulia in silence. His patience seemed to have no limits, he just waited. Yulia began to speak, staring down at the incomprehensible squiggles:
“The Chinese and ESA confirmed the signal. Everyone can see it. The signal is not the only problem, there is also strong magnetic radiation. Everyone is trying to figure out what’s going on right now,” Yulia looked up at Dr Capri.
He was calm and deciding something inside.
“The signal is coming from the territory of Nepal,” he said and stopped.
Yulia did not understand whether it was a question or a statement, and just waited to see what would happen next.
“Can you build something to register the signal under hiking conditions?” Tulu-Manchi asked.
“I don’t have the equipment,” Yulia tried to say.
“We can find something in our warehouse. Come down, I’m going to Dr Lamichen,” Dr Capri stood up with the look of a man who had made up his mind.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s happening in Nepal, so we have to go there,” the doctor said as he left the room.