I'd be suspicious of an article written by a Company about a study the Company conducted about a miracle cure developed by the Company and tested by the CEO of the Company.
If we consider the possibility of infinitely old universe with no beginning or end, the answer is yes, most likely, but it's unlikely we ever know. Those strange blobs of light could very well be living, thinking things or parts of them, but everything that happens on their physical scale is so slow that we can only observe a mere snapshot of their state.
Because when you remove items from that list or otherwise change the order, you break binary compatibility.
The C library specifies the index into this table when making a syscall. You don't want a situation where the C library and the kernel are mismatched and disagree about what the syscalls are.
The safe way to remove a syscall is to change it to return ENOSYS. All the syscalls that come after it in the table therefore retain the same index.
Could it have been some harmonic frequency of a terrestial lower frequency radio signal (such as 710MHz) that bounced off ionosphere?
That frequency range is currently assigned to mobile, but I suppose it could have been in TV/Broadcast use back then as it's right next to that spectrum.
Aw, c'mon - where's your sense of imagination! No one would click on an article with that title (except Go fans). "Doomed to succeed" surprises the reader and entices them to see what it could possibly mean. It's a fantastic title!
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