It suddenly occurs to me that alien-contact hypothesizing, at least everything that I've encountered in my various trawls through popular American Internet culture, tends to be excessively preoccupied with looking for deftly encoded signals. I've seen notions about how aliens might transmit mathematical series (prime numbers, say) that would be unlikely from an inanimate source. Well I don't know about that, but I'm wondering someone else: what about the carrier wave? Wouldn't that be remarkable in itself—a radio signal confined to a narrowly defined band? ~Chara
(btw I got to see Lily Tomlin act that in Portland, 2005 I think. now that was special. I like to think we're very very distantly related because of the similar surnames)
