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I don't understand why "alien" is clickbait. If the system was artificially created, do you think it is more likely that humans are doing it?

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Neither humans nor aliens created it, obviously.

I mean, that's literally what they are investigating. It's an article about the search for intelligent life, if you think that's nonsense, that's fine but it doesn't make it "clickbait".

"mathematically perfect alien star system" is a pretty good clickbait example.

I mean I guess it could be worse "We found a mathematically perfect alien star system, and then..."

I will not even bother to read this shit. You sound naive. What is "Mathematically perfect"? EVERYTHING! Literally everything is perfect math in nature, you see things like honeycomb patters repeat themselves in so many different animal and insect species. There are so many things like that. I wish I remember what YouTube video or article it was that I read, it was fascinating how much repeating and "perfect math" happens in nature. I am sure the solar systems out there are not any different. Math is just what humans invented to measure what it already there, the outcome can only be "perfect".

In case you do not know, the speed of light is just a made up number, so how the fuck do they're even measuring some solar system? THEY DON'T!

It's all clickbait, end of story "aliens, perfect math ..." I know this without reading it.

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