Word Soup

The broadcast was strong enough to be detectable, but weak enough to not be intelligible, beyond the fact that it was a message, in an unknown language, repeated on a loop.

The computer worked for days to try and piece together the rare moments of stronger signal, building a best estimate of the message, eventually getting something, which it then began to decode, producing a template where you could enter guesses of certain words, and build a translation.

It then became a game, to find the most interesting version, then the funniest, then the crudest.

The actual meaning was underwhelming.