**#BREAKING: NASA Confirms “The Farthest Ever” Signal Received – It’s a Drake Meme from 2017**
**HOUSTON, TX –** In a press conference that left even the most stoic engineers chuckling, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced today that the agency has received what it is calling the “most distant, clear transmission” ever recorded from beyond the heliosphere. After a frantic, 50-hour analysis by the Deep Space Network, scientists confirmed the signal is not a new pulsar, a gravitational wave signature, or evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
It is a low-resolution .jpeg of a sad Drake meme from 2017.
“We are both elated and deeply confused,” said Dr. Helena Vance, Chief Communications Officer. “We expected a message of peace, maybe a prime number sequence. Instead, we got a man in a turtleneck looking disappointed, captioned ‘When the universal constant breaks, but you can’t find the source code.’ The timestamp suggests it was sent 22 years ago, but it just arrived.”
The agency has confirmed the meme was likely fired into the void as a test of a student radio telescope in Boise, Idaho, but due to a cosmic time dilation glitch known as “Redshift Lag,” the metadata is still intact. The internet has already declared this the greatest “NAS-uh” moment in history.
“I thought we were finally getting close to a ‘First Contact’ bonus,” one Reddit user wrote. “Instead, we get a dead meme from the mid-2010s. This is peak irony. NASA spent billions to prove the universe has a stale sense of humor.”
The signal has been officially designated **Meme-22B**, and the conspiracy corner of the web is already buzzing that the “Sad Drake” image is actually a coded warning about the inevitable heat death of the universe, or possibly a comment on the poor