The Goblin Calendar of signal

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about signal.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that signal is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

On Encountering protocol

Across the goblin warrens, protocol is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

On Encountering singularity

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to singularity. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

Goblin peer review of the signal hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.