Not really.

There are many, many cosmic processes that we don't know the first thing about.

At one point, we didn't know what a pulsar was, and a fair amount of people probably thought it was an alien signal.

Human History is littered with examples of attribution of the unexplained to aliens.

So far, non alien explanations have been found for all of them, except possibly this one.

Does it warrant further study? Absolutely. Is it likely to be aliens? Statistically, no.

Indeed. Human history is riddled with anthropomorphism and people here trying to argue for more of it.

We probably wouldn't even recognize real aliens because we'd be too busy looking for our own reflection in the sky.

	▲	autoexec 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I doubt they'd be all that unfathomable. We come from the same universe after all, and as far as we can tell it's all governed by the same physics. It stands to reason that life on their worlds would have developed under at least some of the same rules we developed under on Earth. That should put at least some constraints on their forms and functions. They might have learned different things than we have, they might know a lot more about our universe than we do, but I'd guess that much of what we've managed to learn so far will still be a part of their reality regardless of their level of familiarity with it. For example, more than 90% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen. They might have discovered things that are more exotic and never seen on Earth, but the hydrogen atoms we've studied won't be any different from hydrogen they'd have studied. We share a home. By the time they've figured out enough of how the universe works to reach us it's pretty likely that we'll have some common ground to talk about.
	▲	ghurtado 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The real aliens were the friends we made along the way.