back to article Spoiler alert: We'll bet boffins still haven't spotted aliens

As any followers of the “Tabbi's Star” controversy will tell you, put “aliens” in a media release and you're bound to get the clicks. So it was over the weekend when the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific accepted a paper claiming to have identified 234 stars out of a couple of million whose signatures …

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  1. Cynic_999

    It would cause riots

    Many people seem to be getting bent out of shape by the thought of having a few people coming here from Syria. Imagine the fuss if anyone from another star system were to visit. There would no doubt be a referendum and we'd end up voting to leave the Galaxy.

  2. Katie Saucey
    Happy

    'As any followers of the “Tabbi's Star” controversy will tell you, put “aliens” in a media release and you're bound to get the clicks'

    You got me.

  3. Petrea Mitchell

    Speaking of patterns

    If you take a look at Borra's past papers on arXiv.org, you'll see that statistical fishing expeditions are one of his specialties. In fact there's one that claims to find almost exactly the same kind of super-fast pulses buried in the noise from galactic centers.

  4. rtb61

    We are just starting to appreciate what can be done with advancing technology. So what are we going to see of more advanced aliens, only what they want us to see, end of story and we are starting to appreciate the basis of technology by which they can actively do that.

    The more advanced the less we will see, don't ever forget, their time for them to look for us, did not start with us looking for them, they will have had millions of years to look (like a child with their hands in front of the face, they can't see you because you can't see them, yep uh huh).

    So what difference does it make, fuck all, we have our own lives to live and our own challenges to overcome whether they are watching or not. Given how long they had to find us, yep uh huh, we are invisible says the child with their hands over their eyes.

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