[lelanthran]

> The signal itself looks like a parabola when graphed, gaining in intensity and then falling off at the same rate. Exactly what you'd expect from someone walking across the field in front of it.

Also exactly what you'd expect if aliens were beaming a search signal into their sky, no?

[34679]

Yes, but one is far more likely.

[lelanthran]

> Yes, but one is far more likely.

Well, yeah, but I wasn't addressing that. My point is that any signal from an intelligent species is going to look exactly like the signal from someone walking past with an emitter.

[pyman]

Statistically speaking, everything points to human interference.

My theory is that the government was planning to cut funding, and to stop that from happening someone deliberately created the interference. That's more likely than aliens going extinct after sending one single message.