Inquiry is a difficult thing, and it's often gone about in extremely ineffective ways.
Asking what can or could be, is useless unless it leads to something that connected to something that is.
Saying something needs no proof(and by that I simply mean a substantial amount of supporting evidence coinciding with a decided lack of evidence to the contrary) is the ultimate intellectual cop-out, although it is one that I understand.
An idea, concept, person or thing which "needs no proof" is in every way identical to an infinite amount of things that could be, but that which we do not know to exist/be true.
I can look around at the world and come to the rather well supported conclusion that gravity exists, even though gravity is invisible because gravity interacts with the world around us in a predictable and consistent manner. But what if I want to make a conclusion of what kind art a hypothetical alien living in a distance galaxy would make, I would be very unlikely to be correct.
Put another way, let's say there is a finite of things-that-exists, and an infinite amount of things-that-do-not-exist. Let's say you put a white marble in a great big infinite pot for each thing-that-exists, and a black marble in it for each thing-that-does-not-exist, then pick a single marble. What are the chances of getting a white marble? Infinitesimally small. Coincidentally, this is the same chance some thing which "needs no proof" being true.
Getting back to the original point, and sorry for the detour, but I must ask again, why do you think this cosmic ray burst says anything about the possibility of intelligent beings? Gamma Ray Bursts hit earth every day, and a great deal of them are well explained by science, it's just that if science finds something not well explained by current theories, it can't just make something up, it has to say, "I do not know why this thing is, but I will do my best to find an explanation." Of course, scientists are people too and do bad things like make up stuff, but they are very often exposed because made of stuff is very difficult to reproduce(read: impossible).
What you said about 'need of proof' i agree with completely.
I guess my question came from ignorance then. I did not realize just how common these bursts are. I guess my imagination jumped in when i read the article. i saw a bunch of science types from a different part of the Bubble figure out that it would be more efficient to launch starbombs at a collapsing neutron star to create a binary calling card then seeding their galactic region with crafted objects. I love to tell stories, but i try to ground them in truth when i can. So i wanted to ask at what point does intended and controlled cosmic event start turning from a black marble into a white one [excellent concept delivery by the way]?
Asking what can or could be, is useless unless it leads to something that connected to something that is.
Saying something needs no proof(and by that I simply mean a substantial amount of supporting evidence coinciding with a decided lack of evidence to the contrary) is the ultimate intellectual cop-out, although it is one that I understand.
An idea, concept, person or thing which "needs no proof" is in every way identical to an infinite amount of things that could be, but that which we do not know to exist/be true.
I can look around at the world and come to the rather well supported conclusion that gravity exists, even though gravity is invisible because gravity interacts with the world around us in a predictable and consistent manner. But what if I want to make a conclusion of what kind art a hypothetical alien living in a distance galaxy would make, I would be very unlikely to be correct.
Put another way, let's say there is a finite of things-that-exists, and an infinite amount of things-that-do-not-exist. Let's say you put a white marble in a great big infinite pot for each thing-that-exists, and a black marble in it for each thing-that-does-not-exist, then pick a single marble. What are the chances of getting a white marble? Infinitesimally small. Coincidentally, this is the same chance some thing which "needs no proof" being true.
Getting back to the original point, and sorry for the detour, but I must ask again, why do you think this cosmic ray burst says anything about the possibility of intelligent beings? Gamma Ray Bursts hit earth every day, and a great deal of them are well explained by science, it's just that if science finds something not well explained by current theories, it can't just make something up, it has to say, "I do not know why this thing is, but I will do my best to find an explanation." Of course, scientists are people too and do bad things like make up stuff, but they are very often exposed because made of stuff is very difficult to reproduce(read: impossible).