This is ridiculous. Arguing that 234 stars is a tiny number and therefore it was aliens...
On the contrary, 234 is 234. If something has been found in 234 stars, it is a naturally occurring phenomenon.
This is exactly as ridiculous as ID in human biology. In fact it is the same thing, just applied to a different area.
If something has been found in 234 stars, it is a naturally occurring phenomenon.
Intelligence is a natural phenomenon.
There are many reasons to be wary of the linked data analysis and of the ETI hypothesis of the cause if the analysis is correct (and the additional wild speculation that Morganism layered on top of it should be completely ignored for multiple reasons) but that is not one of them.
(I should comment in detail at some point when I have time, I've read the paper and a related clutch of papers from the same authors and find it interesting even if it is poorly written and look forward to seeing if anyone can reproduce it at all...)
these folks went looking for a signal, and found it. Hidden in noise, it is a simple beacon, but you have to use a Fourier transform to pick it out.
The really strange thing is that is only found in the same spectral class stars as our sun.
To the authors, this suggests a beacon for contact.
To me, this suggests a targeting light, a probe wavefront that marks a system as biologically active, and marked for destruction by a machine culture. There is location info in the database, so it could be modeled, to see if it looks like a bootstrap wave, and would be curious if there is a string of supernovas behind it.
Since most of the found signals are in halo stars, it is more likely an invasion from another galaxy, then a local population.
Don't shout in the jungle at night....
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-stars-strange-aliens-contact.html
Signals probably from Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Analysis of 2.5 million SDSS spectra found signals predicted in a previous publication in only 234 stars overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031
And there are weird things happening in galactic clusters too. As i posted in the open thread, a super dense cluster is the only way to stop a hypervelocity attack on a home base whether a planetary or Dyson structure. You can't hit something something at a % of C, if there are a bunch of stars in the way.
Astronomers discover densest galaxy ever
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924141701.htm
Ultraluminous X-ray bursts in two ultracompact companions to nearby elliptical galaxies. Nature, 2016; 538 (7625): 356 DOI: 10.1038/nature19822
The rise times of all of the flares were less than one minute, and the flares then decayed over about an hour.One source flared once to a peak luminosity of 9 × 1040 erg per second; the other flared five times to 1040 erg per second.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7625/full/nature19822.html