Why no message content?
Wild speculation, unworthy of a scientist.
234 other separate and individual intelligently inhabited planets are all beaming contact messages towards earth in unison?
I am sure they are friendly and only want to share souffle recipes.
Feeble Earthlings!
Pay no attention to this story!
Return to your work!
That is all.
What a difficult choice.
Little green men or errors in calibration or data analysis. So headline runs with little green men.
Sure, lets announce to the big bad unknown universe we’re so backward and unevolved that we can only send out radio signals. Woo hoo, here were are. No more advanced than ants. Come give us a hug.
Early voting from beyond our solar system, all favoring Hillary.
They all just happen to use the exact same frequency? They did not say how far apart these stars are but their ET theory only works if all these 234 stars are inhabited by the same extended civilization that uses the exact same frequency for their communications.
Other astronomers think that Borra’s intuition might have run away with him.
“They don’t consider every natural possibility and jump prematurely to the supernatural – so to speak – conclusion,” says Peter Plavchan at Missouri State University in Springfield. “I think it’s way too premature to do that.”
Roughly 200 stars out of millions studied, and the odds of intelligent life sending something we’d recognize when we were looking is near zero or we live in a Star Trek universe that has to be manufactured to create such simultaneity - I say the likely issue is human error.
They are just beacons warning others that the worlds at these stars have been sterilized and won’t be worth settling for several million years...
Howard and Raj confess to Sheldon that the positive results that he received while using the equipment was really static from an electric can opener they kept turning on and off.