Trevor Collins

So most astronomers, I will say, as Christian looks that up, they're largely skeptical of this theory.

Again, to your point, the comet will come back around eventually, hopefully be in a similar spot in the night sky near Sagittarius, and hopefully something more sensitive can listen to it.

And then we can truly say, okay, it doesn't have the signal strength or it does.

Okay, so Christensen's been back since 2017, I think.

I don't know.

Now you're asking a good question.

Christian, I wish I knew that when we were researching, because that's something I would love to have looked at.

But ultimately, right, again, a lot of astronomers do doubt this theory.

There is a way to test it, and it is to listen to that comet when it comes back around.

That means that that comet has been around about six times since 1977.

So the math works out.

But before we move on, I do want to say some other wrinkles.

Some have argued that the two comets said to be in the path of Big Year at the time, in 1977, were actually not in the survey area.

And so that kind of

throws this whole theory out with the bathwater in the first place like we can measure it when it comes back around but if they weren't even in the sky where big ear was looking when the signal was picked up it's not even really worth measuring because then it wouldn't have been these comments yeah others have reported that the big ear team itself have dismissed this theory citing that comets do not emit strong enough frequencies which casually does make sense i mean

You don't need to know a whole lot about electromagnetism, but yes, signals come from planets, stars, crazy things like pulsars and comets.

But comets are going to put out such little frequency.

I can't fully tell you just how strong the signal is.

I can't.

30 times background noise.