Amateur astronomer Flubbernon Hoggawepple was feeling insulted.

‘The implication was clear’, he said.

European Space Agency Director of Science Caroll Mundell was feeling irritated.

‘But why would an extraterrestrial intelligence transmit a message eight billion years before life on Earth began with the specific purpose of upsetting you right now’, she asked

‘I don’t know, but they did.’

‘So tell me again how it happened?’

‘I detected a series of fast radio bursts. Coming from Andromeda. It took me a while to work out that I was listening to Morse Code.’

‘And what did it say?’

‘That I was paranoid.’