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In an attempt to wipe out humanity, millions of these things arranged themselves into disks meant to eclipse the sun. One of these things housed a human-machine hybrid known as Halman, who was later sealed in the Pico Vault due to being infected with a virus. An exponentially replicating mass of these things created the star Lucifer by consuming Jupiter, in order to nurture the (15[1])nascent aquatic civilization on (*) Europa. Though these objects vary in size, their dimensions have a precise 1 to 4 to 9 ratio. After being unearthed and exposed to sunlight, one of these objects directed a transmission at Iapetus. The Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Zero was one of these objects unearthed in Olduvai Gorge, where it had encouraged the development of tools by early hominids. (-5[1])For 10 points, the spacecraft Discovery One launched in 2001 following a signal sent by what kind of black rectangular object? ■END■ (10[1])

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