With so many emitting bodies in the universe, wouldn't we expect to receive the complete works of shakespeare from ~1 remote body/month?
I mean, you could find the "WOW" signal in PI somewhere too, right?
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con...) says we have around 10^80 hydrogen atoms in the observable universe. That's a huge number, but there are 10^80 different decimal numbers with 80 digits alone. Shakespeare's works are considerably longer.
Secondly what the above comment means is that with so many bodies emitting some thing random for such a long period of time. You are inevitable bound to notice something that you could make some meaning of.
And yes the 'WOW' signal is present some where in Pi.
And no, that's not necessarily true with regards to Pi.
We don't know anything about the unobservable universe. And who cares in this context? johnvschmitt was explicitely talking about 'receiving'.
Random doesn't mean without any limitations. You can have random variations in frequency that nonetheless remain red.
You won't get a WOW signal out of any know phenomenon. It does not matter how many of them you measure.