Some theorists, like Dr. Thorne before his disappearance in 2025, believed that RJ01292340 was a countdown. “The signal wasn't a message to us,” Thorne wrote in his final, unpublished journal entry. “It was a message outward . We just happened to overhear it. It was saying, ‘I am awake. The coast is clear.’”
RJ01292340 had arrived.