1) If pulse = message, then proves intelligent life elsewhere
2) If elsewhere = several thousand to million+ years closer to the bigbang than Earth, then implies civilization is aprox that much older/more advanced than us.
3) If we went from horse and buggy to travelling at 20,000 km/h in space in the course of 3 centuries, to say nothing of discovering Newtonian theory all the way to quantum mechanics, then it is plausible they have even far more advanced theories (of everything?), if they are a mere few hundred years more advanced than us, nevermind if they are 10,000 or 1 million+ more years more advanced.
4) Anything after 500 years would look like magic to us. It is thus not impossible (though yes it is impossible by our incomplete quantum theories today), that they have managed to not only figure out how to travel across however many hundreds or thousands of light-years to us, but also that they've managed to figure out time-travel, whether physically or "read-only", only.
5) Once "4)" is a reality, at least half the thousands of UFOlogy "crazy" reports becomes plausible if not some variant of truth/reality (i.e. ancient aliens, space craft that appear out of nowhere, craft that can travel 10,000 miles/hour then do a 90 degree right turn, human abductions for genetic experiments/ ongoing species hybridization, etc ).
In other words, humanity may have been created/started by intelligent design (or not - perhaps we really did start from monkeys) and then continued on its own via Darwinian evolution and/or accelerated along the way by our alien overlords. In either case, intelligent design (or "alteration" if only half way through) thus becomes possible
As the saying goes: "If you're one step ahead, you're a genius! If you're two steps ahead, you're insane!"
Yes, i acknowledge the common use, but this is an uncommon place where i assumed most would notice the lack of capitalization. I may have erred in my assessment.
I used those words because i could think of no other way to say it and seem like i was not trolling. Alien technology? Super beings making stop lights out of cosmic phenomena? The ripples from the horrible atrocities committed in the Gear Wars?
In truth, i do not think it is anything so special as that, but what i think is irrelevant. What is relevant is that using the data gathered as well as the data already held 'we' should be able to eliminate a few possibilities. To reiterate, i have no idea how one or ones would go about this process of elimination; i was just wondering if there was a simple fact or basic set of facts that would negate the possibility of the phenomenon being designed by an intelligent creature or creatures.
Aliens = "some sort of being", or if you prefer, all-powerful beings that can appear/disappear at will, travel 1/2 the universe in the blink of an eye, paralyze you at will, erase your memory, time travel, defy gravity etc.... many non-scientists might call that a deity. I call them technologically advanced aliens.
Intelligent Design doesn't imply a belief in any particular god(s) or even necessarily a supernatural being. Just that life and/or the visible universe was created according to some intelligent rules and not by random chance.
