Trevor Collins

It might almost be that if we ever do catch an intelligent signal, it could be that we analyze it like this, or it could be that we go, that was from intelligence.

There's no way to contact them.

There's no way to know if they exist.

There's no way to know when and where they truly are.

It looks like it came from that star, but if you look far enough away, there's a million other stars behind it.

It's like, how are you supposed to know?

Humans are pattern searchers.

We look at the sky, we look at clouds and we see that one's a bunny.

That one's a thick alien.

But all the time we look for patterns.

Who's to say that we aren't just seeing patterns and otherwise the random nature and the random chaos that is the cosmos?

And how will we know if we do get something intelligent that it isn't chaos, that it is truly intelligent?

We may never know.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, coming back to it, this theory that it is alien life, you know, some people have pointed to the fact that it hasn't repeated again.

In fact, per an AP article, I do want to quote Emin once again regarding this very idea.

Here's what he said, quote, Even if it were beings from another civilization, I would have expected to see it again.

We should have seen it when we looked for it again 50 times.

Something would have been there.

We saw nothing.